E! Online — Denzel Washington’s still got it — and now he’s faster than ever.
The 59-year-old Oscar winner is still kicking ass and taking names, this time to save a young woman from the clutches of some creepy, terrible people in the first trailer for The Equalizer, based on the 1980s-era CBS series of the same name and due in theaters Sept. 26.
But while there’s a small-screen template laid out for Denzel’s role of Robert McCall, a compelled-out-of-retirement special-ops commando who likes to time himself when he’s taking out the enemy, we’re seeing healthy doses of Taxi Driver and The Professional as well.
And not just because Chloë Grace Moretz’s damsel-in-danger Teri is rocking a blunt-cut wig with bangs like Natalie Portman in her 1994 breakthrough role.
In this sneak peek, the scene is set when McCall meets Teri in a coffee shop, explaining when asked that he’s reading a book “about a guy who’s a knight in shining armor, except he lives in a world where knights don’t exist anymore.”
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