According to the Hollywood Reporter, four-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke is joining an all-star in MGM's remake of The Magnificent Seven, which will also star Chris Pratt, Haley Bennett (The Equalizer) and two-time Academy Award winner Denzel Washington. The film will be directed by Antoine Fuqua. The original 1960 film starred a huge cast of actors including Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson and Robert Vaughn. The movie tells of a woman (Bennett) who hires a group of gunslingers to protect her town from rampaging bandits.
I'm really excited for this not only because of the cast and director behind the film. This is FINALLY the reunion with Hawke, Washington and Fuqua who worked on one of my favorite films, Training Day, which came out back in 2001. It also got Washington his second Academy Award and Hawke's first nomination. I think this film is a perfect reunion for these guys and I couldn't be more excited!
Ethan Hawke is on a good track record right now after his Oscar nomination for Boyhood, so it'd be really cool to see him in a Western. I'll be sure to keep you guys updated on this!
- BS
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