Coming from the buzz of how the Mary Poppins film came to be in Saving Mr. Banks, director John Lee Hancock has been hired by MGM to rewrite the western The Magnificent Seven. The original draft was written by Nic Pizzolato, who is currently busy with his upcoming shows True Detective starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson and premiering on HBO next month.
Hancock’s remake will be based on
John Sturges’ 1960 film starring Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson,
James Coburn and Robert Vaughn as cowboys who must defend a small Mexican town
from a group of bandits led by Eli Wallach. Sturges’ film was also based on another
film, this time by Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 classic Seven Samurai.
Tom Cruise was interested in the
project back in 2012 when MGM first started rummaging in their library for
projects to remake, but it seems that other projects forced the actor to step
away.
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