Denzel and Antoine Fuqua to ride with The Magnificent Seven

[Pink Ranger]

Worth checking out of is it one of Keenan Ivory Wayans' flops?

It's pretty good, you should see it.

 

[Loki882]

Not to mention that we'd had a remake of a classic Western made pretty recently that was a really good movie in it's own right. It was called 3:10 to Yuma.

 

[Gold Samurai]

They already made that version. It's called I'M GONNA GET YOU SUCKA!

How Much for a Order of Ribs?

 

[Pink Ranger]

Judging by the gradual direction of this thread, I think we will end up fancasting the other 6 as Damon Wayans, Damon Wayans Jr., Chris Rock, Kevin Hart, JB Smooth and Bobb'e J. Thompson.

 

[mclay18]

I don't know... even with that terrific pairing of Fuqua and Denzel, seems like heresy to remake Magnificent Seven at all. But then again MGM is remaking this AND Ben-Hur.

 

[Tanin]

I don't know... even with that terrific pairing of Fuqua and Denzel, seems like heresy to remake Magnificent Seven at all. But then again MGM is remaking this AND Ben-Hur.

Seven Samurai has been remade so often one more isn't going to hurt it's legacy anymore then any other has.

 

[Loki882]

I don't know... even with that terrific pairing of Fuqua and Denzel, seems like heresy to remake Magnificent Seven at all. But then again MGM is remaking this AND Ben-Hur.

Magnificent Seven ITSELF was a remake of Seven Samurai. So I'm not seeing how this is so "sacrilegious" by comparison.

 

[Silvermoth]

I want all brothas to be cast. Idris Elba, Will Smith, Michael K. Williams, Jamie Foxx, Anthony Mackie, etc. And I want an older mentor character portrayed by either Morgan Freeman, Laurence Fishburne, or Danny Glover.

I would watch that. I can even start to imagine which characters would be which.

Mackie= young protege type
Jamie foxx= the anti django, bit of a rogue anti hero type.

Chuck in gina Torres as one of the seven and oh man what a movie!

 

[Rowsdower!]

This could be great. Hope it happens.

 

[roach]

Seven Samurai has been remade so often one more isn't going to hurt it's legacy anymore then any other has.

Exactly
Battle Beyond the Stars
Three Amigos
A Bugs Life

 

[Pink Ranger]

There's even a satirical Japanese remake of Seven Samurai (by way of Magnificent Seven and Robert Altman-type films) called Tampopo about a Japanese cowboy truck driver who gathers a motley group of individuals together to save a struggling noodle house.

 

[terry78]

Japanese cowboy truck driver. That sounds like their interpretation of us.

 

[godisawesome]

Y'know, looking at this thread and the idea of Denzel as the leading gunslinger of the film, I thought I'd just drop this segment of the Cowboy Wikipedia article here:

" Census records suggest that about 15% of all cowboys were of African-American ancestry—ranging from about 25% on the trail drives out of Texas, to very few in the northwest. Similarly, cowboys of Mexican descent also averaged about 15% of the total, but were more common in Texas and the southwest. Other estimates suggest that in the late 19th century, one out of every three cowboys was a Mexican vaquero, and 20% may have been African-American.[24]"

Then you got guys like Bass Reeves as an actual lawman. And then there's Bonanza's Virginia City; a huge demographic that never appeared in the show was freedmen from the Civil War.

 

[Tanin]

That doesn't surprise me at all considering other then the stupid romanticism American's do to the job, being a cowboy is hard ****ing work. Making the lowly Africans/Mexicans do the hard manual labor seems proper for that time period.

 

[DrCosmic]

I'm so down for this. I could take either version, a meeting of black superstars, or, in they team up Denzel with a younger white lead as they tend to nowadays, making it a sort of Western Justice League/Avengers with a Mexican, native american, "chinaman," and shotgun wielding barmaid in the mix.

 

[Octoberist]

Worth checking out of is it one of Keenan Ivory Wayans' flops?

I'm Gonna Git you Sucka is actually very, very funny. It's a near-classic.

 

[E.NormusJohnson]

Y'know, looking at this thread and the idea of Denzel as the leading gunslinger of the film, I thought I'd just drop this segment of the Cowboy Wikipedia article here:

" Census records suggest that about 15% of all cowboys were of African-American ancestry—ranging from about 25% on the trail drives out of Texas, to very few in the northwest. Similarly, cowboys of Mexican descent also averaged about 15% of the total, but were more common in Texas and the southwest. Other estimates suggest that in the late 19th century, one out of every three cowboys was a Mexican vaquero, and 20% may have been African-American.[24]"

Then you got guys like Bass Reeves as an actual lawman. And then there's Bonanza's Virginia City; a huge demographic that never appeared in the show was freedmen from the Civil War.

You gotta love blanket statistics.

 

[Pink Ranger]

The old west was waaay more diverse, by race and nationality (more Europeans than we are led to believe) than the mythology represented in John Wayne movies and other early westerns.

 

[Moridin]

A remake of a remake...If they get a good writer/director/cast attached I won't give up on this, but let's not sugarcoat this. It is what it is: A remake of a remake. Is this really needed? I'd love a new, original western not by Tarantino(though I loved Django and the Hateful Eight screenplay). The last two good westerns I remember that came out recently were remakes: True Grit and 3:10 to Yuma. This could be another one, sure, but I wish we could return to the western genre without returning to the same stories.

No love for "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"?

 

[dude stannis]

It's Fuqua, I'm there. Do we need more remakes? No. Do we need more old school badass R rated action films? Yep.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I'm so down for this. I could take either version, a meeting of black superstars, or, in they team up Denzel with a younger white lead as they tend to nowadays, making it a sort of Western Justice League/Avengers with a Mexican, native american, "chinaman," and shotgun wielding barmaid in the mix.

That sounds like Young Guns with wildly different and colorful archetypes coming together to fight a common foe.

Which could be awesome with Denzel as the frontman.

 

[:eek:]

Chris Pratt Up For "Magnificent Seven"

By Garth Franklin Thursday December 4th 2014 01:23PM
"Guardians of the Galaxy" star Chris Pratt is in early talks to join Denzel Washington in Antoine Fuqua's remake of the classic western "The Magnificent Seven".
A remake itself of Akira Kurosawa's far more acclaimed "Seven Samurai," the 1960 original starred the likes of Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen in the story of seven gunslingers who protect an oppressed Mexican village from a group of outlaws.
"True Detective" creator Nic Pizzolatto wrote an earlier script which John Lee Hancock has since revised. Talks with Pratt are still in the early stages but are reportedly progressing.
Source: Deadline

 

[Pink Ranger]

Damn, Chris is getting it done these past few years.

I can see him in the Steve McQueen role (if they follow the character pattern of the TM7) or the Toshiro Mifune role (if they follow the character pattern of T7S).

 

[Hunter Rider]

Haley Bennett Saddles Up for The Magnificent Seven

 

[Pink Ranger]

Interesting. I guess Haley is like a female equivalent of the Rikichi/Sotero character, a villager/townsperson who is not one of the 7 fighters but is one of the few brave ones who takes up arms to assist them. I guess she will also be the mature love interest (as opposed to the deflowered daughter) for either Denzel or Pratt.