He Will Equalize

Liam Neeson, move – Denzel Washington wants in on a piece of your Older Star as Action Star pie.

The Oscar-winning Unstoppable heavyweight is thisclose to finalizing a deal to star in The Equalizer, a loose adaptation of the 1980s CBS show that followed a onetime military covert ops agent who can’t stand injustice and helps civilians in need.

The project – which is being developed as a potential franchise for Washington (his first) – doesn’t have a director yet, but Richard Wenk, who wrote The Mechanic, is hard at work a screenplay.

Photo: Zimbio.com.