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What? The Magnificent Seven is being rebooted. Crazy crazy crazy.
Plot Summary: A big screen remake of John Sturges' classic western "The Magnificent Seven." The 1960 film, itself a loose remake of Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai," starred Charles Bronson, Yul Brynner, Horst Bucholz, James Colburn, Brad Dexter, Steve McQueen and Robert Vaughn as seven gunfighters-for-hire tasked with protecting a small Mexican village. It spawned three sequels, 1966's "Return of the Magnificent Seven," 1969's "Guns of the Magnificent Seven," and 1972's "The Magnificent Seven Ride Again."
There's seomethings you just don't do. Has Hollywood lost itself? Where have the original screenplays gone? What has gone wrong?
Denzel Washington is starring.
There's seomethings you just don't do. Has Hollywood lost itself? Where have the original screenplays gone? What has gone wrong?
Denzel Washington is starring.
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Also, Denzel Washington is eyeing the role, I don't believe he's confirmed to be starring in it just yet. There are classics like this and 'The Seven Samurai' that absolutely nobody wants a reboot of, then you have 80's classics that really, really don't need a reboot, like 'Dirty Dancing' and 'Point Break.'
Its a stupid idea.
I heard that Tom Cruise is the main star heavily heavily linked to it.
That was a poor remake. But this one could be interesting.
Psycho
Manchurian Candidate
The Terminator
King Kong
Magnificient Seven
That would be downright blasphemy. At least The Magnificent Seven was already a remake to begin with.
It would, but a sequel is in order.
Aarghhh!!!
Yes, I hear you loud and clear.
As for the rest, we can hardly flag them, but we can ignore them and move on ;-).
It's the completely unoriginal attitude behind all this rebooting and remaking that kills me.
The Bale film was outstanding, mainly due to the 4 leads in the film, the last 15 mins were gripping, sensational and truly emotional action. Loved it.
But how can you remake a film like the 7 that we all have grown up on, weve all wanted to be McQueen, or Bronson or Vaughn's washed up gunslinger....it's like seeing an old friend being ripped apart infront of your eyes by sheep.
One of the best movie soundtracks as well...
Kurosawa?
But yes, there is some justification to this logic as The Magnificent Seven is already a remake, that spawned many remakes already.
People tend to forget Seven Samurai is very slow and moody, compared to the "remake" which is far more an Hollywood adaptation than a remake, frankly. In Hollywood, they need to show the bandits actually killing people to make the viewers understand from the start they are a threat. In Samurai, it's done with dialogs :) In Samurai, the "good guys" also act with cruelty. You couldn't have that in Hollywood I'm afraid.
And don't forget you can almost watch Magnificent Seven twice while someone one else is watching Seven Samurai's 3h30 movie.