Denzel Washington to do twice as much equalizing, as The Equalizer gets a Sequelizer
Antoine Fuqua’s update of ‘80s television thriller The Equalizer doesn’t come out until September, but Sony Pictures is already so excited about its prospects that it’s started work on a sequel, hiring Expendables 2 screenwriter Richard Wenk (who also wrote the first Equalizer for Fuqua). In the first film, Denzel Washington takes over the role played by Edward Woodward, as a former spy who tries to atone for his past by helping people. You know, dogsitting, shoveling the neighbors’ walk, that sort of thing. Or, in this instance, protecting teenage prostitute Chloë Grace Moretz from the Russian mob.