A few months back, Denzel Washington’s contribution to the 2023 movie release calendar, The Equalizer 3, opened in theaters. This marked the actor’s fourth collaboration with director Antoine Fuqua, whom he first worked with on 2001’s Training Day. While this threquel ended the Equalizer film series, that doesn’t mean Washington and Fuqua are done teaming up, as the two have signed on for their fifth movie together.
Netflix announced that Washington has signed on to play Hannibal in a historical epic that will chronicle the great military commander’s battles against the Roman Empire in the Second Punic War. Fuqua will direct this upcoming movie for Netflix subscribers, and John Logan of Gladiator and The Aviator fame is writing the script. Washington and Fuqua are also producing this untitled drama (the latter through his production Company Hill District Media, which has a first-look deal with the streamer) alongside Erik Olsen and Adam Goldworm, and Jeremy Lott and Frank Moll are executive producing.
