After winning over audiences with their surrogate father-daughter dynamic in the Tony Scott-directed classic Man on Fire, it sounds like Denzel Washington and Dakota Fanning will soon recreate that chemistry in Sony Pictures' The Equalizer 3, which, according to Deadline, has added Fanning (War of the Worlds; The Alienist) to its cast.
She'll reteam with 2x Academy Award-winner Washington (The Tragedy of Macbeth; Training Day), who returns as Robert McCall, for the first time in nearly twenty years, and should add some much-needed buzz to the sequel as audiences will likely be overjoyed to see the pair back on the big screen.
Plot details remain under wraps, but both director Antoine Fuqua (The Terminal List; Training Day) and screenwriter Richard Wenk (The Equalizer; The Equalizer 2) are back for chapter three. No production start date was given, but filming will presumably begin later this year as Sony has already set a 2023 release date.
Both The Equalizer and The Equalizer 2 were box office successes, with the first installment grossing $192.3 million worldwide while the second earned $190.4 million globally. With Fanning's involvement, it's likely the third film will be the biggest one yet as audiences will be very eager to see the two stars reteam on the big screen.
While Fanning is best known for her work as a child actress in Tom Cruise's War of the Worlds, I Am Sam, and the aforementioned Man on Fire, her more recent credits include The Alienist, The First Lady, Ocean's Eight, and Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood. She can be seen next in Rodham, Showtime's Ripley, and Mélanie Laurent's The Nightingale, where she'll star opposite sister Elle Fanning.
Washington recently earned his ninth Academy Award-nomination for The Tragedy of Macbeth and his recent credits include The Little Things, Roman J. Israel, Esq., Fences, and The Magnificent Seven.
The Equalizer 3 hits theaters on September 1, 2023.