She finds a hole in the bottom and slides under it her shirt gets caught in the fence, but she continues and finds herself at train tracks. She starts running when the armed men see her, chasing her until she's cornered by a chain link fence. His terrified eyes meet hers just as a gunshot ends his life. As she steps into an alley, a man seems to be fighting with two shadowy figures. After her last customer leaves, she closes. SCRIPT SYNOPSIS: JEWEL MACHADO (18) is behind the counter of a down-scale donut shop late at night. Signing Queen Latifah was the cherry on top that prompted CBS to sign a pilot production commitment. Marlowe created, executive produced and was the showrunner for Castle, where Miller was an executive producer. To help ensure that it finally makes it this year, Universal brought Andrew V. Mounting the project has been a priority at Universal for at least five years, with multiple attempts quietly developed. Universal, which produced the original series is back, alongside CBS Television Studios, Davis Entertainment, Flavor Unit, Martin Chase Productions & Milmar Pictures. In this new TV reboot, the iconic character has been reimagined as a woman, with Queen Latifah starring and executive producing.įor a title with so much history, I suppose it shouldn't surprise that a whopping six companies are behind the reboot. A new take on the character was conceived for the 2014 feature film, directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Denzel Washington, which in turn spawned a sequel four years later, The Equalizer 2. The original version of the series aired on CBS for four seasons from 1985 to 1989, and starred Edward Woodward as Robert McCall, a retired intelligence agent with a mysterious past who used his prodigious skills to exact justice on behalf of innocent people trapped in dangerous circumstances.

Like The CW's Kung Fu ( read my review), a CBS reboot of The Equalizer has been in the works for several years now.

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