Drive's Nicholas Winding Refn Chosen To Direct The Equalizer Movie With Denzel Washington - Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors

If I think of anyone to play McCall having seen the original series, I think british and more along the lines of Micheal Cane.

It was a show in the 80's for those who never saw it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB1NiNKwueE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzwVsy4Oe-0

 

i guess i will give it a try lol

 

I don't think a remake is needed, and yeah, I think British as well.

But Denzel can pull off an aging former agent well, I think. With him in it, it's pretty much guaranteed to be at least decent. He doesn't pick bad movies for the most part. So the script must have been promising.

 

I literally don't care anymore.

 

Keith Szarabajka needs a cameo.

Never watched the original but that has the coolest name ever.

 

You know, the only thing I remember about the Equalizer, is the intro.

I am a Denzel fan, though, so if this is even slightly Man-on-Fire-ish, then I'm there. Since they've got the director from Drive (another favorite), then this could be awesome.

 

I look foward to anything with Denzel, when it comes to movies the man rarely if at all strikes out.

 

Fair point. I just hear remake and start worrying as it is usually a pale comparison to the original. I'll wait till I see the trailer to judge.

 

Where the hell are my 'Spenser: For Hire' and 'A Man Called Hawk' remakes?

 

They were in talks about doing a new TV series on TNT, but Robert B Parker died, not sure what happened after that. A new writer has taken over the book series. Haven't heard anything since.
I wish they would put the TV series on DVD. They only have the TV movies available.

 

Yeah, same here. I've been waiting pretty patiently. Some of the episodes can be watched online. Not on Hulu, but Hulu used to at least have the link, before they went to shit. Now I forget where to find them.

As for the books, I'm not going to read any of the non-Parker ones. As far as I'm concerned, that series (and Jesse Stone) is over.

 

I read the most recent ones and it wasn't bad.

 

I started getting a little disillusioned when Parker stopped aging the characters. One of the appeals of the series for me was watching the characters grow and age. I mean, Spenser was middle aged already right from the first book. Paul seems to have kept aging, but Spenser, Susan and Hawk stopped. A situation that kind of reminds me of Batman and the various Robins. Batman is frozen in time, and the Robins all slowly close the gap in age.

But I was kind of looking forward to seeing how Parker planned to have Spenser and Hawk come to grips with their advancing age. Having Spenser deal with the first fight he once would have won but now couldn't. That would have been real drama, and would have shaken the series loose of the formula it had kind of settled into. But now, it will never happen.

I still enjoyed all the Parker books, though.

 

hey...i loved those Jesse Stone films 

 

I still haven't seen any of them, although I've always meant to. I know from reading reviews and stuff that the tv movies are pretty different than the books, so I'm ready for that. Spenser For Hire was pretty different, too, so I can deal.

It's only in the novels that I don't want to read another author's vision of the characters.

 

aye i remember Spencer For Hire..Robert Urich, i used to sometimes watch that

 

Drive was a fantastic movie. I'm excited just because Nicholas Winding Refn is attached.

 

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