In June 2010, it was announced that Russell Crowe was trying to bring The Equalizer to the big screen directed by Paul Haggis, with Crowe intending to play Robert McCall. In addition, Massachusetts-born and raised actors Robert Wahlberg and Timothy John Smith play the crooked Boston Police Department detectives extorting money from local shopkeepers. Marton Csokas as Nicolai Itchenko, a.k.a.

Inspired to continue using his skills to help people in need, Robert posts online ads as The Equaliser. Returning home, Robert is found by Alina, now recovered and having found a job and started a new life with the money Robert anonymously gave her. As Nikolai is about to kill Ralphie, Robert kills him with a nail gun.ĭays later, Robert finds Pushkin at his Moscow Mansion, killing all of his guards and tricking Pushkin into electrocuting himself to death. Nikolai arrives with his men, whom Robert kills one by one with improvised weapons and traps. Robert arrives and kills the men guarding the hostages, setting them free. Nikolai abducts Robert's co-workers at the hardware store and demands a trade. He confronts Nikolai again, threatening to do more damage if he persists in hunting him, and later destroys two of Pushkin's oil tankers. Robert tracks Masters down and interrogates him, forcing him to turn himself in after shutting down one of Pushkin's money laundering warehouses and using evidence gathered by Masters to expose many of Pushkin's moles. She also informs him that Nikolai murdered Remar and Pederson and Masters has not been heard from in days. She informs him that the five men he killed were a wing of Pushkin's operation, and that Rensen's real name is Nikolai Itchenko he is a Spetsnaz operative, turned Russian secret police agent, and now an enforcer for Pushkin. Robert travels to his friends and retired former DIA colleagues, Susan and Brian Plummer, asking Susan's help in identifying Rensen. Teddy and the crooked detectives attempt twice to abduct Robert, but he evades them. He visits Robert at his apartment, posing as a police detective, but Robert sees through his guise. Teddy learns Robert's identity from Mandy, then murders her. Robert continues exacting vigilante justice on criminals he encounters, blackmailing two corrupt police officers to return racketeering money, and beating a gunman with a hammer after he robs the hardware store and steals co-worker Jenny's heirloom ring. Aided by Boston PD detectives on Pushkin's payroll, Masters, Remar and Pederson, Teddy canvases rival gangs in the area, beating Irish mob lieutenant 'Little' John Looney to death simply to send the message 'I'm here.' Teddy Rensen, Pushkin's enforcer, arrives in Boston to investigate the attack. Unbeknownst to Robert, Slavi and his men were part of a much larger syndicate led by Russian oligarch Vladimir Pushkin. Robert expertly kills the men and leaves. Robert finds Slavi and his men at their restaurant and offers to buy Alina's freedom, which Slavi bluntly refuses. He travels there and learns from her friend Mandy, another prostitute, that her pimp Slavi is responsible. One day Robert hears that Alina was badly beaten and is in hospital. The pair talk about Robert's books and, eventually, Teri shares that her real name is Alina and she dreams of being a singer. There, he befriends Teri, a teenage prostitute trafficked by the Russian mob. He helps his colleague Ralphie train to become a security guard and, unable to sleep, often spends his nights reading at an all-night diner. A third film is in production, with Washington and Fuqua returning, and is scheduled to be released on September 1, 2023.įormer marine-turned- DIA Operative Robert McCall lives a quiet life in Boston, where he works at a hardware store. A sequel was released on July 20, 2018, with Denzel Washington, Richard Wenk, and Antoine Fuqua returning. Nonetheless, it became a commercial success with a worldwide gross of over $192 million on a production budget of $55–73 million. The film received mixed reviews from critics who praised the visual style, direction, cast performances, soundtrack and action sequences, but criticized its depictions of violence and plot. The Equalizer had its world premiere at 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2014, and was released worldwide on September 26, 2014, in conventional and IMAX theaters. Principal photography began in June 2013 in Massachusetts. Marine turned DIA intelligence officer who reluctantly returns to action to protect a teenage prostitute from members of the Russian mafia. Written by Richard Wenk, it stars Denzel Washington in the lead role, Marton Csokas, Chloë Grace Moretz, David Harbour, Bill Pullman and Melissa Leo. The Equalizer is a 2014 American vigilante action film directed by Antoine Fuqua, loosely based on the 1980s TV series of the same title.

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