Their first collaboration hasn’t reached the cinema yet (the prison break thriller The Next Three Days), but director Paul Haggis and Russell Crowe may have another project already lined up – the long awaited adaptation of popular 80’s US TV series The Equalizer.
A few months ago it was reported that Crowe had signed on as the leading man and it was speculated that with a big name on board the project would finally get moving and today’s news is a sign things are moving ahead.
The original show starred Edward Woodward as an aging private investigator-cum-vigilante based in New York, who hid a shadowy history as some kind of British secret service agent.
Out of the recent proposed list of TV remakes, this one sounds like the most promising. The original show was pretty edgy at times and I’m sure both Crowe and Haggis intend to make something similar to this, without resorting to some nostalgic re-hash.
I really hope the makers also produce a new version of the amazing electronic theme tune from the TV show (composed by The Police drummer Stewart Copeland) – a piece of music that really resonates with fellow pop culture enthusiasts from that era
News courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter.
