Denzel Washington Is Retiring — But Not Before ‘Black Panther 3’

• Denzel Washington has announced his impending retirement on Australia’s The Today Show.
• There will, however, be a handful of projects including Black Panther 3 helmed by Ryan Coogler before the (almost) 70-year-old actor calls it a day.
• The news comes as Gladiator II premieres internationally; and Washington’s reunion with Spike Lee, the forthcoming remake of Akira Kurosawa’s High & Low, enters post-production.

As he approaches the half-century milestone as a working…