[EveningStar]

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[Squantos]

The story of the 7 samurai continues....

[jwalsh07]

Great western, hopefully they don’t turn it into Bareback Cowboys.

[jimbo123]

So is this going to be the homo version?

[huldah1776]

Are they going to ride miniature horses?

bbbwwwahahahahaha!

[Dallas59]

Nothing new what-so-ever coming out of that place.

[saganite]

You really shouldn’t mess with perfection.

[Venturer]

I didn’t know Tom Cruise was still alive.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

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.

Such originality. What happened, did the fountain of comic book heroes run dry for Hollywood's creative visionaries?

[A_Former_Democrat]

Tom Cruise defacing the great Magnificent 7 . .. blasphemy

[vetvetdoug]

There are few male leads in Hollywood today that can even match one of the actors that worked in the 1960 version. Many of today's actors can barely sit a horse much less play that of a western star with some modicum of believability.

[Rebelbase]

Another remake. When was the last time Hollywood had anything original?

[HoneysuckleTN]

NoooooOOOOoooooo! I can't stand Tom Cruise and he has ruined several franchises for me that I will not watch. Interview with the Vampire and Mission: Impossible. (Unfortunately, I took a chance and watched the first MI. Worst mistake ever.) I have the original M7 movies, and the 90s TV series on DVD. I have a tape of the Seven Samurai, but I need to get a copy on DVD.

I wish he'd stay away from my favorite movies. Barf!!

[PowderMonkey]

American cool defined: Steve McQueen, Yul Brenner, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn, Brad Detexter, Eli Wallach...! “Ride on, Calvera.” Fuggetaboudit, Tommy. Any remake you try to do will be a waste of perfectly good film.

[Michael.SF.]

I think only Robert Vaughn is still alive, they should try and work him into the movie in some way

[JimSEA]

No, no, no . . . When you have a perfectly good movie like this don’t mess with it. Nothing good will result. You can tell stories again like this was an adaptation of The Seven Samurai but don’t copy. I know they do it to accomidate egos and have new stars that appeal to the teeny boppers.

[Tucker39]

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!

[castlegreyskull]

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.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

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.”

[Shadowstrike]

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.