‘Magnificent Seven’ Will Have A Remake With Tom Cruise Attached

According to Variety, MGM is going back to the vault to develop a remake of John Sturges’ 1960 Western “The Magnificent Seven” with Tom Cruise attached to star. Later this year the studio is about to start production on “RoboCop” and “Carrie.”

As of now there is no director yet, due to the fact that MGM is in search for a screenwriter, meaning that the project is still a long ways off and is not in Cruise’s immediate plans.

“The Magnificent Seven,” itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 classic “Seven Samurai.” The film follows a bandit who terrorizes a small Mexican farming village each year. Several of the village elders send three of the farmers into the United States to search for gunmen to defend them. They end up with 7, each of whom comes for a different reason. They must prepare the town to repulse an army of 40 bandits who will arrive wanting food.

The film starred Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter and Horst Buchholz. “The Magnificent Seven” was followed by three sequels.

Way back while doing press for Minority Report and while visiting the set of War of the Worlds I still remember when Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg both said that they would and are interested in doing a Western. SO I wouldn’t be surprised if Spielberg gets attached to the project.

What do you think?

Source: Variety

jazzyjules63

He really is too short to be the alpha male of the group. Personally I think it’s yet another of a long line of unnecessary remakes. The first one was a classic. Leave it alone.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000368276506 Travis J DeSantis

Attention: Hollywood! Stop trying to recapture the glory days. Accept the fact that you make shitty movies like Battleship now and just move on.
AICN_Douche

First Cruise sh*ts on Jack Reacher fans…
Now, he wants to crap on two classics…
Including Seven Samuria… Sigh.
ann rain

Magnificent Seven already isn’t anywhere near as good as Seven Samurai. Can’t stand Cruise.
http://twitter.com/mixta110 MIXTER

Never saw the original so i’m actually looking forward to a new epic western. I saw bits of the original on tv a few weeks back, but looked dated and hammy. (If I’d seen it from the start I woulda gotten into it though I’m sure)
I don’t mind when they reboot “some” old westerns. A great old one is RED SUN, with Charles Bronson and Toshiro Mifune. Its brilliant, but, I would still like to see that updated.

I’m surprised this wasn’t Tarantino’s Western project given the Cowboy/Samurai subject. (Shanghai Noon is as close as weve gotten)
http://www.facebook.com/people/Nick-Lewis/16741092 Nick Lewis

With Tom Cruise’s name being attached, I wouldn’t be surprised if they try to A-Star this movie up Ocean’s Eleven style, but they would have to be six dudes shorter than Cruise of course..