'The Magnificent Seven' is an upcoming reboot of the classic Western film based on the screenplay by Akira Kurosawa. The film will be directed by Antoine Fuqua and feature Peter Saarsgard as the main villain Bartholomew Bogue. Haley Bennett will portray the female lead alongside Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke and Chris Pratt.
According to JoBlo, Peter Saarsgard has been cast as the main villain Bartholomew Bogue for Antoine Fuqua's modern remake of the classic film first released in 1960. The original American Western film was also a reboot of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanese-language film 'Seven Samurai'. This makes the upcoming film an actual remake of a remake.
Saarsgard is best known for his role on 2004's comedy-drama 'Garden State'. He also worked on several films, television shows and theater productions including 'Blue Jasmine', 'Shattered Glass', 'Jarhead', 'The Skeleton Key' and Classic Stage Company's 'Hamlet'.
The film is scheduled for a cinematic release on September 23, 2016. According to Release Date Portal, the original 'Magnificent Seven' film directed by John Sturges was selected in the United States Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". It followed a group of seven hired gunfighters in the Wild West to protect a small village against a group of marauders and their leader.
According to We Got This Covered, the new version will center on a particular woman taking on the task of hiring a bounty hunter who in turn pays a group of gunslingers to help protect the town against a rampaging baron and his thugs. Haley Bennett was cast to play the female lead, a widow of one of the murdered men.
Bennett, a rising star in her own right, first debuted on the big screen in 'Music and Lyrics' together with Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant. She also had the opportunity to work with both Fuqua and Denzel Washington on 'The Equalizer'.
'The Magnificent Seven' is an upcoming American Western-crime film directed by Antoine Fuqua. It was initially set for release on January 13, 2017 but moved to September 23, 2016. It features Saarsgard, Bennett, Washington, Ethan Hawke, Chris Pratt, Matt Bomer, and Luke Grimes.
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