If the title of The Magnificent Seven sounds familiar, your memory is serving you well. It is a legendary American western from 1960, an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's Japanese masterpiece, Seven Samurai from 1954. In 2016, it gets another Hollywood adaptation, which has the same sounding names as the first American adaptation, in which, among others, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Horst Buchholz, Yul Brynner and Eli Wallach. The film was directed by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, The Fall of Olympus, The Righteous, King Arthur).
Seven Magnificent (The Magnificent Seven) is an adaptation of the famous western from the sixties, which was based on a three and a half hour film spectacle Seven Samurai from 1954, which is considered one of the most influential films of all time.
In the shoes of Akira Kurosawa or John Sturges was stepped on by Antoine Fuqua, who became famous with the film Training Day, which, among other things, To Denzel Washington won an Oscar. With this, he joined forces this time as well, and they are still part of the stellar cast of the Magnificent Seven Ethan Hawke (Boyhood, Before Midnight), Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy, Jurassic World), Byung-Hun Lee, Vincent D'Onofrio, Martin Sensmeier and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo.
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The expectations of cinema lovers are justifiably large compared to the names involved in the adaptation of the movie The Magnificent Seven.
The story takes place in a small town Rose Creek, subjugated by the industrialist Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard). Desperate residents turn to for help seven renegades (a cocktail of gamblers, bounty hunters and gunslingers) Sam Chisol (Washington), Josh Farraday (Pratt), Goodnight Robicheaux (Hawke), Jack Horne (D'Onofrio), Billy Rock (Lee), Vasquez (Garcia-Rulfo) and Red Harvest (Sensmeier), who in preparation for the showdown with an "iron hand" realize that it is there is much more to the game than just money. They signed the script John Lee Hancock (The Tale of the Champion) and Nic Pizzolatto (True Detective).
Western
Seven Magnificent
(The Magnificent Seven, USA, 2016)
Direction: Antoine Fuqua. They play: Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lee Byung-hun, Manuel Garcia Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier, Haley Bennett, Matt Bomer, Peter Sarsgaard.
In the cinema from September 23, 2016.
