{"id":8684,"date":"2010-06-16T07:04:02","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T12:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=8684"},"modified":"2018-12-08T23:36:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T04:36:28","slug":"another-80s-remake-crowe-is-the-equalizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/16\/another-80s-remake-crowe-is-the-equalizer\/","title":{"rendered":"Another 80s Remake: Crowe Is THE EQUALIZER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/TheEqualizer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8687\" title=\"TheEqualizer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/TheEqualizer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a>Russell Crowe has just attached himself to star in a remake of the 80s television series <em>The Equalizer<\/em>. Crowe will be playing Robert McCall, a retired intelligence agent helping people as a way to atone for some of the unspecified bad things he did in his past.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no script yet, so we don&#8217;t know if this will be an origin story for the McCall character in the way that last weekend&#8217;s <strong>A-Team<\/strong> movie supplied an origin story for its leads or if the film will just jump right in on McCall coming to the aid of those in need.Personally, I hope that they don&#8217;t invent a detailed backstory for McCall. Part of the appeal of the character was his shadowy origins. It is probably something we don&#8217;t need to demystify.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also no studio lined up to actually make the film. Producer Mace Neufeld had been developing the film over at the Weinstein Company for a while, but they have apparently parted ways. The <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/movies\/2010\/06\/equalizer-remake-russell-crowe-woodward.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>LA Times<\/em><\/a> is reporting that Neufeld and production company Escape Artists, the folks behind the remake of <strong>The Taking Of Pelham 1-2-3<\/strong> and the horrible Will Smith drama <strong>Seven Pounds<\/strong>, have been shopping the project around Hollywood and a few studios have expressed interest.<\/p>\n<p>Like any actor, Crowe is attached to a couple of different projects at any one time, but right now the only work that looks solid for him in the immediate future is the lead in the Paul Haggis-helmed thriller <strong>The Next Three Days<\/strong>, where he&#8217;ll play a man whose wife is wrongly accused of murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Russell Crowe has just attached himself to star in a remake of the 80s television series The Equalizer. Crowe will be playing Robert McCall, a retired intelligence agent helping people as a way to atone <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/16\/another-80s-remake-crowe-is-the-equalizer\/\" title=\"Another 80s Remake: Crowe Is THE EQUALIZER\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84,10285],"tags":[22,306,2854,47],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"category-tv-news","8":"tag-in-development","9":"tag-russell-crowe","10":"tag-the-equalizer","11":"tag-tv-to-film"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8684"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=8684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}