Denzel Washington has confirmed that two more Equalizer movies are in the works.
The franchise began with 2014’s The Equalizer and follows Washington’s former US Marine turned DIA intelligence officer Robert McCall. This was followed by a 2018 sequel, while a third instalment was released last year.
While Washington previously said that the third movie seemed like a “good place to stop”, he’s now confirmed that a fourth and fifth film are moving forward.
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During a new interview with Esquire, he said: “I told them I would do another Equalizer, and we’re doing four and five.
“More people are happy about that – people love those daggone Equalizers. It’s about variety for me. I’ll sometimes say to myself, one’s for me, one’s for them.
“So for example, Othello: we’re doing it on Broadway and then a movie. That’s for me. But I’ve come to realize that the Equalizer films are for me, too, because they’re for the people. They want me to go get the bad guys. ‘We can’t get them, so you go get them.’ And I say, ‘Okay, I’ll get them! Just wait right there. I’ll be right back!'”
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In the third film, we saw McCall trying to live peacefully in Southern Italy, though he was soon back in action as he set out to protect his new friends from the control of the mafia.
Ahead of the film’s release last year, Washington hinted that this would be his final outing as the former Marine.
“I don’t want to say he’s found happiness, and I don’t want to give it all away, but he meets someone lovely, he’s in a lovely town and he seems to be at peace. That seems to be a good place to stop,” he said at the time. “I didn’t know that there was going to be three. Definitely didn’t know that when we did the first one. I didn’t know how it would end.”
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