A script that finds serious studio favor can push a project from long-simmering development into full boil, and that seems to have happened with Sony and
The Equalizer. Based on the TV series in which
Edward Woodward played a former covert ops expert who donates his services to people in trouble, the film will star
Denzel Washington as a new version of the title character.
Richard Wenk recently turned in a new script draft, and Sony likes ...