Queen Latifah stars in a CBS reboot of 'The Equalizer.' Is the new tv series based on the film franchise starring Denzel Washington?
Last 12 months CBS introduced that the reboot of the classic 1980s television show The Equalizer would big name singer, rapper, and actress Queen Latifah. Queen plays a single mother who's an ex CIA agent. She utilizes her skill set from her mysterious former life with the CIA by way of helping those that have nowhere else to turn and plays somewhat of DIY justice for New York, performing as a father or mother angel and a defender.
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If this plot abstract sounds a little bit acquainted, this is because Denzel Washington performed a identical character in the movies The Equalizer and The Equalizer 2. Denzel performed Robert McCall, a retired Marine and former Defense Intelligence Agency operative who faked his death to go away his outdated existence in the back of. However, he comes out of his self-imposed retirement and arises an as avenging angel, and is in a position to take on any individual who brutalizes the helpless.
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Is 'The Equalizer' series based on the movies?
While both Queen and Denzel's characters are referred to as McCall, the two characters aren't siblings and aren't connected in anyway. The series is related to the movies in spirit best. The CBS Equalizer is a total separate reboot of the story from the movies that function Denzel. The display is principally a reboot of the identical material that the movies have been in line with — some other Equalizer, a display starring Edward Woodward as Robert McCall, that ran from 1985 to 1989 on CBS.
Edward's Robert McCall, like Queen’s personality, used to be a former covert operations officer. In a Zoom panel for the new display at Television Critics Association's wintry weather press tour, she said, "I am absolutely excited and love the fact that Denzel made this a relevant product again because I did watch the original series as a kid. What Denzel did with the feature films has been incredible. If anything, he set a bar in a way but also gave us a lot of room to go a completely different direction."
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In an interview with ET, Queen additionally talked about The Equalizer and how she used to be occupied with the concept. She says, "I always loved the idea of it. This was a bit over a year ago, but the world was nasty. The world was not fair and it still is not. I felt like this would be a great opportunity to take all the things I've learned throughout my career and my life and be able to exact some justice. Even if it's just on television. It's a powerful medium and people need to see some justice for a change."
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Will Denzel Washington make a cameo on the tv series 'The Equalizer'?
No topic what model of The Equalizer you are observing, the basic idea is the similar. In both the film and tv series, a former officer, after turning into bored to death with the global's injustice, makes a decision to take crime-fighting into their own palms.
When the query of potentially having Denzel appear on the small display in the series The Equalizer, the show's creator and executive manufacturer Andrew Marlowe in an interview says, "It's not anything that we've really talked about."
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Andrew added, “We are right here growing our personal universe. Is there a possible that there generally is a crossover universe in the long term? We indisputably haven’t ruled that out. But for us it really is about construction this display and identification around Robyn McCall and being very particular to a show where Queen is in point of fact embodying the middle of it."
The Equalizer airs on Sundays at Eight p.m. ET on CBS.
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