Producer talks Equalizer rating and sequel

We’ll not lie, the trailer for The Equalizer hasn’t really excited us. At all. Sure, it looks like a solid thriller but it has no resemblance to the original Edward Woodward series…

Now producer Todd Black has been talking about the movie and where it night go in the future, given that star Denzel Washington has always avoided franchises and sequels: “You’re going to see a very hard R movie. It’s called The Equalizer and it’s about a guy who takes care of people who either can’t or don’t know how to take care of themselves because they’ve been done wrong by really bad people.

“And he takes care of those people that have such a wrong doings it done to them. And he gives the bad people a chance to rectify it at every turn. And when they don’t take him up on his chance he violently, violently takes care of them in a way that they will never breathe again.”

Regarding a sequel, he adds: “You know, we’re all committed to do a second movie until there isn’t a second movie. I mean if it works and the audiences like it and it works critically and financially, I’m sure Sony and Denzel and all of us will want to do a second movie, but you never go into these thinking that because you never know. So you do have to satisfy certain questions that are necessary to answer in case there isn’t a second one, but you hope for a second one.”

Regarding the fact that it’s called The Equalizer after the 80s TV show and the lead character is called Robert McCall, Black confirms that they weren’t too worried about it being faithful and all they wanted was the name and the concept, saying they weren’t “hung up on what the show was and all the machinations of what Robert McCall did or didn’t do and what his backstory was.”

Right, so it’s The Equalizer literally in name only? Booooooooo…