Credit: Variety
The Weinstein Company has signed crime novelists Michael Connelly and Terrill Lee Lankford to pen the screenplay for The Equalizer, their feature remake of the popular ’80s TV series.
A New York Times best-selling author, Connelly is best known for his series of novels starring police detective Harry Bosch. Lankford, on the other hand, is a regular collaborator of Connelly (he directed Blue Neon Light, which is an insider’s tour of the places depicted in Connelly’s novels).
The theatrical adaptation will be directed by Lucky Number Slevin helmer Paul McGuigan, but no cast has been attached as of yet, reports Variety.
The original show starred British actor Edward Woodward as Robert McCall, and the dark, character-driven crime show was a CBS hit in the late ’80s. Each episode would see Woodward’s former intelligence officer helping his client settle a score.
Connelly acknowledged in a statement that “times have certainly changed since the days of the television show” but said he and his co-scribe “plan to build a character that is of these times but to also keep the heart and soul of the show intact.”
