The last time Hollywood decided to revisit the world of 2001's acclaimed cop drama thriller Training Day, it was via a TV version that ran for one season in 2017. Now though, Warner Bros. thinks a film prequel could work and is putting the pieces together.
This new story would once again feature the character of Alonzo Harris, as played by Denzel Washington in the original movie, the cop who has certainly blurred the edges of legality when it comes to doing his job in the narcotics department. Washington won his second Oscar for the film, while co-star Ethan Hawke scored a nomination. For the prequel, we'd see Harris roughly a decade before the original, at a time when race relations in Los Angeles were about to hit one of their periodic boiling points in the wake of the Rodney King verdict.
So far, the only person directly involved is writer Nick Yarborough, and up-and-comer whose work has attracted attention and has sparked movies on the road to production. There's no word if director Antoine Fuqua (who did pitch in on the TV version) would return to produce, and of course whoever takes over the role would have some King Kong-sized shoes to fill. As Collider points, Washington's son, John David Washington, no slouch in the acting department himself, could possibly take the job...