To be honest, until some photos dropped yesterday, I forgot
that Antoine Fuqua’s remake of The Magnificent Seven was
happening. But if we were sharing the same boat, Sony is doing their level best
to remind us both that this is on the way, because they just dropped the very
first trailer.
You won’t find anything unexpected in this trailer, but
that’s more than okay, because what you expected is totally badass. Fuqua’s
last team up with Denzel Washington, The Equalizer, got
ho-hum reviews, but I totally dug it, and with Training Day
also under their collective belt (The Magnificent Seven also
reunites them with Ethan Hawke), I’m game for whatever they want to do. Take a
look at the trailer and let me know what you think.
If you’re familiar with John Sturges’ 1960 The
Magnificent Seven (and you really should be), itself a remake of
Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 classic, Seven Samurai (which you
should also be acquainted with), you know the plot. But what the hell, here’s a
synopsis anyway. If anything, it just drives home the massive amount of star
power Fuqua and company assembled:
With the town of Rose Creek under the deadly control of industrialist Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard), the desperate townspeople employ protection from seven outlaws, bounty hunters, gamblers and hired guns — Sam Chisolm (Denzel Washington), Josh Farraday (Chris Pratt), Goodnight Robicheaux (Ethan Hawke), Jack Horne (Vincent D’Onofrio), Billy Rocks (Byung-Hun Lee), Vasquez (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), and Red Harvest (Martin Sensmeier). As they prepare the town for the violent showdown that they know is coming, these seven mercenaries find themselves fighting for more than money.
Bullets, explosions, Gatling guns, grizzled dudes, actors I
quite enjoy, revenge, and it’s a western? The
Magnificent Seven will have damn near everything I want in a movie
when hits theaters this fall on September 23.
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