Posted on 05/25/2012 4:57:05 PM PDT by EveningStar
As MGM prepares to start production on "RoboCop" and "Carrie" later this year, the studio is going back to the vault again to develop a remake of John Sturges' 1960 Western "The Magnificent Seven" with Tom Cruise attached to star.
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AGREED!
Thought about the MEN in that movie, okay, is it because of liberation that there are no real men under 40 in the movies? Oh, forgot about Act of Valor. :) Didn’t get to see it in the theatre but will get the dvd.
yea, DiCapro can have Bronson’s role, Howie Mandell for Yul Brynner (well, he is bald) and Cruise for McQueen
Then ‘they’ will wonder why no one over 50 will go....
That is near sacrilege, to mess with a masterpiece like that.
One of my fave scenes..... Brynner & McQueen on the horsedrawn hearse, starting up toward Boot Hill to bury the indian....an irate local shoots at them and shoots the cigar out of Brynner’s mouth. McQueen asks, “You get elected?” Brynner replies, “No! But I got nominated real good!”
Love it, love it!
Steve McQueen was so cool his character didn’t even have a name.
They’re all metrosexuals these days.
Watched Bogie and K. Hepburn in “The African Queen” last night. A real man and a real woman! And such fantastic acting!
“Nobody throws me my own guns and says run. Nobody.” Gives me chills everytime I watch.
I really tried to picture Tom Cruise or one of the current crop of male actors on those horses.
I must be getting old..I can’t see it.
Sigh..I hope they at least leave the music intact.
Why would Hollywood need to remake Robocop? Sadly, they did a great job potraying what a futuristic Detriot would look like when they made the original in 1987.
***Brynner & McQueen on the horsedrawn hearse,****
When THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN was shown on TV for the first time, it was butchered beyond belief. The TV movie began at this scene and it was many years before I knew there was about 15 minutes missing. There were also many other cuts.
I read that Cruise is being cast as Jack Reacher, a great character in several Lee Child books. Great books, reading one now.
But for crying out loud, Jack Reacher is a 6’4” tough guy. It’s hard to imagine worse casting than Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher. Cruise is what, 5’7”?
Kurosawa made Seven Samurai look real. Period Japan with a mythical forest, heroes and villains as clear as a bell.
The Magnificent Seven was made just six years later but what an amazing assembly of talent.
Stupidest comment yet about this project: “is actually a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” which turned out to be a successful film.”
Geez, if I were learning to be a script writer I’d be ticked off.
You can’t tell me with the THOUSANDS of scripts Studios get offered every day that there wasn’t at least ONE original thought out there?
And, actors...Nobody gets a break and becomes a ‘rising star’?
Remakes, and the same actors, again, and again.
Heck, if I’m gonna watch the same thing, just redone I might as well watch the “original” on the dvd.
two thumbs up on your analysis of the photo.......I don’t think there are any Hollywood actors capable of sitting tall in the saddle like these men.....
IMO best theme song ever for a movie is Magnificent Seven..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iteRKvRKFA
One of my top ten fave soundtracks.
Thanks for posting!
Excellent observations. Of course back when that movie was made, most of the actors probably grew up riding, it was much more prevalent than it is today. Otherwise, if they remade “True Grit” then I suppose no sacrilige is too great for Hollywood today....I keep wondering how long until they reach into the vault and pull out “The Searchers”...
Steve McQueen [sigh] my high school heart throb.
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