As Robert McCall, Denzel Washington fights a killer duel with Keanu Reeves from the “John Wick” films. This is also shown in the trailer for “The Equalizer 3” (in theaters August 31, 2023!), in which Washington takes on the Mafia in Italy:
The original template for “The Equalizer” is a series (hence the series reboot with Queen Latifah), but the vigilante series is probably best known for the three films starring Denzel Washington – although, of course, strictly speaking, “The Equalizer 3” has not yet been released, but will be in German cinemas on August 31, 2023.
In the trailer for “The Equalizer 3” but again just as mercilessly among the bad guys on, as you know it from “The Equalizer” and “The Equalizer 2” – and of course from the “John Wick” films with Keanu Reeves. Especially with “John Wick 4” there are some similarities this time, as the trailer shows.
For in “The Equalizer 3” we meet Robert McCall, played by Denzel Washington, not in the USA, but in a small town in the south of Italy, where he seems to have retired and found his peace. However, his happiness is short-lived:
Robert McCall’s adopted home is rocked by a series of incidents that also puts in danger the locals with whom the ex-government hitman has befriended. McCall realizes that all is not well in Italy either, and that the people are being oppressed by the local mafia. Of course, McCall can’t let that happen and so, of necessity, he takes up the fight again…
GREAT “MAN UNDER FIRE” REUNION
Another highlight in the trailer and in “The Equalizer 3.” The reunion of Denzel Washington and Dakota Fanning, who were already seen together in the cinema 19 years ago (!) in “Man Under Fire”. While the Oscar winner Washington was already seen back then as a tough avenger with his heart in the right place, the then child star Fanning played Lupita Ramos, who was kidnapped by a Mexican cartel.
In “The Equalizer 3,” Washington now plays more or less the same role, while Fanning apparently embodies a CIA agent named Emma Collins who gets in touch with Robert McCall. In an interview with ComicBook.com, “The Equalizer 3” director Antoine Fuqua also already confirmed that at least he himself often had to think of “Man Under Fire” during filming (which, however, was directed not by Fuqua but by action veteran Tony Scott, who died in 2012).
