A couple of months again, Denzel Washington’s contribution to the 2023 film launch calendar, The Equalizer 3, opened in theaters. This marked the actor’s fourth collaboration with director Antoine Fuqua, whom he first labored with on 2001’s Coaching Day. Whereas this threquel ended the Equalizer movie sequence, that doesn’t imply Washington and Fuqua are accomplished teaming up, as the 2 have signed on for his or her fifth film collectively.
Netflix introduced that Washington has signed on to play Hannibal in a historic epic that can chronicle the good navy commander’s battles towards the Roman Empire within the Second Punic Conflict. Fuqua will direct this upcoming film for Netflix subscribers, and John Logan of Gladiator and The Aviator fame is writing the script. Washington and Fuqua are additionally producing this untitled drama (the latter by means of his manufacturing Firm Hill District Media, which has a first-look take care of the streamer) alongside Erik Olsen and Adam Goldworm, and Jeremy Lott and Frank Moll are govt producing.
As famous by Deadline, Denzel Washington has been eager to play Hannibal for over 20 years, again when the venture was initially arrange at twentieth Century Fox. Nevertheless, that was additionally at a time when the Malcolm X star didn’t wish to be away from his children for a very long time, so it by no means bought off the bottom at what’s now known as twentieth Century Studios and underneath the Disney banner. As a substitute, twenty years, later, Netflix is respiratory life into this Hannibal film, and provides Washington and Fuqua their second alternative to sort out a non-Equalizer-focused story collectively.
This marks yet one more film tied to the Roman Empire that Denzel Washington has developing, as he’s additionally a member of Gladiator 2’s solid alongside folks like Paul Mescal, Connie Nielsen and Pedro Pascal. Moreover, he’s producing a movie adaptation of The Piano Lesson that can star his son John David Washington and Samuel L. Jackson, and has additionally been arrange at Netflix. Apart from The Equalizer 3, Washington’s different current onscreen movie credit embody The Little Issues and The Tragedy of Macbeth.
In the meantime, previous to The Equalizer 3, Antoine Fuqua teamed with Will Smith on Emancipation, which, like The Tragedy of Macbeth, might be streamed with an Apple TV+ subscription. He additionally labored on the Chris Pratt-led TV sequence The Terminal Record, which Amazon Prime Video subscribers can take a look at, as an govt producer and director of the primary episode. Trying forward, together with Netflix’s Hannibal venture, Fuqua is helming a film about Michael Jackson that can star Jaafar Jackson as his late uncle.
Whereas we watch for extra particulars about Denzel Washington’s Hannibal film and the primary seems to be at him in character, do not forget that there are many choices on the Netflix film schedule to look ahead to within the the rest of 2023 and going into 2024.
