Equalizer 3 Spoiler Interview: Director Antoine Fuqua

Editor's Note: The following containes spoilers for The Equalizer 3. For the third and final entry of the franchise, Collider partnered with Sony and IMAX to offer readers a chance to catch Antoine Fuqua’s The Equalizer 3 on the big screen ahead of its official release. Following the screening, Editor-in-chief Steve Weintraub hosted an exclusive Q&A with the filmmaker to celebrate his past works, look to future projects, and dig into the final journey of Denzel Washington’s action icon, Robert McCall. In The Equalizer 3, Fuqua and Washington team up again to bring McCall’s heroic arc to its end in a holy trinity of a franchise. The stakes are high and the setting is beautiful on the Amalfi Coast of Italy, where the Equalizer finds himself retiring, or trying to, rather. During their conversation, Fuqua discusses why Italy was so pivotal to McCall’s story, what Akira Kurosawa’s filmography, samurai, and The Equalizer trilogy have in common, and why that ending changed in the edit bay. Check out the full video above or the transcript below to learn behind-the-scenes morsels on Training Day, the first collaboration between Fuqua and Washington that earned the actor an Academy Award, the film Fuqua almost made—and why he’s glad he didn’t—the life-altering event that set him on the path to becoming a renowned director, his work with Coolio, Prince, and Michelle Pfeiffer, why IMAX is so important, the challenges he and his crew faced filming the Will Smith-led Emancipation, his plans for The Terminal List prequel with Chris Pratt, and tons more. #TheEqualizer3 #AntoineFuqua #Equalizer3 #denzelwashington For interviews, movie reviews, and more visit https://collider.com FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL   / collider     / collider     / collider