1960 Western Classic The Magnificent Seven Is Getting a Reboot Series From the Creator of Heroes

The 1960 movie The Magnificent Seven is 1 of the champion known remakes, reimagining Akira Kurosawa’s beloved 1954 classical Seven Samurai arsenic an American western. Now, that Yul Brenner and Steve McQueen remake is getting a full caller remake itself.

Amazon-owned streaming work MGM+ conscionable announced it has greenlit an eight-episode play bid based connected the iconic movie. Tim Kring, known for creating the iconic bid Heroes successful 2006, volition constitute and enforcement nutrient the series. Donald De Line, Lawrence Mirisch, and Bruce Kaufman volition enforcement nutrient alongside Kring, but nary different formed oregon unit announcements person been made conscionable yet.

The bid is acceptable to spell into accumulation successful astir six months, successful June 2026. MGM+ has besides released an authoritative synopsis for the film, which is “set successful the tumultuous 1880s American frontier.”

The Magnificent Seven actors and their characters are (from near to right): Steve McQueen arsenic Vin; James Coburn arsenic Britt; Horst Buchholz arsenic Chico; Yul Brynner arsenic Chris Adams; Brad Dexter arsenic Harry Luck; Robert Vaughn arsenic Lee; Charles Bronson arsenic Bernardo O'Reilly. Image credit: Getty.

The synopsis reads: “After a peaceful Quaker colony is massacred by mercenaries moving for a greedy and ruthless onshore baron trying to unit them disconnected the onshore helium covets, 7 talented but flawed mercenaries are hired by the assemblage to support them from the onshore baron’s hired guns. But arsenic the squad embeds itself successful the community, preparing to support them against overwhelming odds, they are each forced to grapple with an indispensable question: is the usage of unit acceptable to support a radical whose religion is based connected non-violence?”

MGM+ added: “The bid takes a heavy dive into the stories down each of the Seven; what’s astatine involvement for them, and wherefore they take to instrumentality connected this mission. Like the original, this updated instrumentality connected the classical communicative explores themes of honor, sacrifice and redemption, focusing connected morality, faith, and the outgo of courage.”

“Tim Kring is simply a maestro storyteller,” caput of MGM+ Michael Wright said successful a statement. “Tim, Donald De Line, Larry Mirisch, and Bruce Kaufman person crafted a bid that delivers the vigor of a classical western, honors the bequest of the archetypal film, and reasserts its timeless themes of the powerfulness of unity against oppression and flawed heroes uncovering redemption by helping those who can’t assistance themselves.”

The 1960 movie — which was released by United Artists, present portion of MGM — was specified a captious and commercialized success, it spawned galore iterations implicit the years: 3 sequel films, a 1998 TV series, and a 2016 movie remake starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke. It’s known arsenic 1 of the top westerns ever made and fundamentally was a game-changer for the genre erstwhile it was released.

Variety reports that True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto's adaptation of The Magnificent Seven for Amazon is nary longer moving forward, and neither is helium progressive successful this caller adaptation.

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Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.