Nic Pizzolatto is developing a reboot series on The Magnificent Seven for Amazon. At first, it was going to be an original series, but it is now a new take on the classic Western film. The first film came out in 1960 and starred Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, and Charles Bronson. It was an American remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 film Seven Samurai. Pizzolatto co-wrote the script for the 2016 remake, which starred Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Chris Pratt, and Vincent D’Onofrio. It will have an “outlaw getting an unlikely bunch together to defend immigrant homesteaders in an open-range war against cattle barons in central Texas.” There will be action, romance, and adventure. Nic Pizzolatto, Mark Johnson, Lawrence Mirisch, and Bruce Kaufman are executive producers. Amazon Studios is producing the reboot series of The Magnificent Seven. There have been three additional sequels and a CBS television series after the original.
Nic Pizzolatto Wants to Show the Classic Epic Western Film in a New Way
The 2016 film The Magnificent Seven received positive reviews and did well at the box office. The other sequels and the CBS series aired from 1998-2000 are not widely known. Nic Pizzolatto wants to revitalize the story with the reboot series of The Magnificent Seven for Amazon. Pizzolatto previously worked on the HBO anthology drama series True Detective. He will be an executive producer for the fourth season, which will star Jodie Foster and Kali Reis. The experienced producer has won three Emmy nominations for his work on True Detective. Now he has attached himself to the Amazon reboot series of The Magnificent Seven. No cast has been chosen for it. There isn’t even a date to start production.
Westerns are not nearly as common as they were when the first The Magnificent Seven film. It doesn’t mean it won’t do well, and with Pizzolatto attached, it could end up doing better than the 1998 series.