Director Antoine Fuqua and star Denzel Washington return
for a third instalment in the big screen reboot of the cult 1980s TV show.
Written by Richard Wenk, The Equalizer 3 sees
Washington's former government assassin Robert McCall living peacefully in
Southern Italy until he is forced to go to war with the local Mafia.
Dakota Fanning, Sonia Ammar and Remo Girone also
star.
The Equalizer 3 is in UK/ROI cinemas from September
1st.
Check out the first trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
Since giving up his life as a government assassin, Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) has struggled to reconcile the horrific things he’s done in the past and finds a strange solace in serving justice on behalf of the oppressed. Finding himself surprisingly at home in Southern Italy, he discovers his new friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends’ protector by taking on the mafia.