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- Referencenod to comics or other movies
- Cameoa familiar face shows up
- Setupplanted now, pays off later
- Behind the scenesproduction trivia
- Behind the scenesAlmost a decade in the works
The plan to adapt the series started in 2005, with producer Mace Neufeld and Michael Sloan, co-creator of the original. Russell Crowe tried to make it in 2010. Denzel Washington came aboard in December 2011, and Antoine Fuqua, who directed him in Training Day, was confirmed in March 2013.
source ↗ - CameoMelissa Leo had been on the show
Melissa Leo, who plays Susan Plummer, had already guest-starred in a first-season episode of the original series, "The Defector," as the daughter of a former Soviet agent who asks McCall for help.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe original series' Jaguar
In the scene where McCall tries to suffocate a man inside a car, a Series III Jaguar XJ6 appears, the same model used in the original 1980s TV series.
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- Behind the scenesThe sequel announced before release
Seven months before The Equalizer opened, Sony was already planning a sequel, with Richard Wenk writing again. The studio only made it official in April 2015.
source ↗ - SetupBoston and the hurricane
Shooting began September 14, 2017, in Boston's South End. The final action scene, the storm sequence, was filmed in Brant Rock, Massachusetts. Other locations included Lynn Shore Drive and the Powder Point Bridge in Duxbury.
source ↗ - CameoPedro Pascal and Ashton Sanders join
Pedro Pascal and Ashton Sanders joined the cast, and Melissa Leo and Bill Pullman returned as Susan and Brian Plummer. Sanders plays the young man who comes to see McCall as a father figure.
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- SetupThe village of Atrani
Production designer Naomi Shohan spent a month scouting locations in Italy and chose the village of Atrani on the Amalfi Coast as the main setting. Shooting began October 10, 2022.
source ↗ - CameoDenzel and Dakota 19 years on
Dakota Fanning joined the cast in 2022, 19 years after working with Washington in Man on Fire. Washington was paid $20 million to return to the role.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesAn ending Fuqua wanted outside the US
In August 2018, Fuqua said he wanted to continue the series and take the story outside the US. The third film was indeed set in Italy, with music by Marcelo Zarvos and cinematography by Robert Richardson.
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