'The Equalizer' had a long and tortured production history before it first hit the silver screen in 2014.
The Big Picture Denzel Washington has been in the film business for decades now, has anchored multiple iconic features, and become a regular fixture at the Academy Awards. However, in his years and years as a movie star, the only character Washington has played more than once is Robert McCall, the protagonist of The Equalizer movies. Most of Washington's films are dramas and action/thrillers meant to function as just one-offs — there were never plans for a multitude of John Q.
Go back to the mid-to-late-2000s and one will find endless news reports on various quasi-famous pop culture properties that The Weinstein Company was hoping to remake into modern movies. The studio toiled away endlessly on a potential new Fletch film, for instance, while Weinstein Company subdivision Dimension Films carried over the film rights to the vintage TV show The Six Million Dollar Man after the label split away from Disney and Miramax.
That’s when the first whispers of Denzel Washington taking on the lead role began to emerge. However, even with the role of Robert McCall selected, that wasn’t the end of the development road for The Equalizer. Now it was time to pick out a director for the film, with a collection of potential choices for the gig leaking to the press in 2012. In November 2012, Sony/Columbia Pictures made its choice.
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