Denzel Washington will star in a remake of “The Taking of Pelham 123”. The star of “Man on Fire” and “Crimson Tide” will reunite with the director of those pictures, Tony Scott, on the new movie. Washington will play the character that Walter Matthau played in the original 1974 film about four criminals that take the passengers of a New York subway car ransom and the tense standoff that follows.
Washington will next be seen in “American Gangster” playing opposite Russell Crowe. “American Gangster” was directed by the brother of the director that will make the “Pelham” remake, Ridley Scott. It seems that working with the Scott brothers is becoming a bit of a habit for Denzel.
On Christmas Day Denzel will have another new movie out in theaters called “The Great Debaters”. This is the second movie that Washington will have directed after making “Antwone Fisher” in 2002. He also stars in the film as a black Texas university professor in the 1930s that went on to lead his school’s debating team to the national championship against Harvard University.
