Seven Samurai Remake

[bryant]

Oh, yay, the Weinsteins are investing money in Asian film…

“Titles slated for the fund include… a remake of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s 1950’s epic The Seven Samurai.”

What the hell?

Originally published at Imaginary Vestibule.

Comments

[head58.livejournal.com]

And a live-action Mulan. Because that's Asian!

(did you see there's an American version of One Missed Call coming out? Starring Ed Burns! Wheeeee!)

[bdeakin.livejournal.com]

I'm vaguely interested to see what they'd do with Seven Samurai. Mostly scared, though.

I'd actually like to see the story cut down in length -- which is certainly what'd happen -- as right now I feel the requisite number of times to watch that movie is "one."

[righteousfist.livejournal.com]

Dear Hollywood,

Please stop making movies until you can come up with some original ideas. While I realize this may take several years, we, the people who have brains, would appreciate it.

PS: If you can't stop remaking old films, at least try remaking films that it is actually conceivable that you might improve upon in some way.

Irately,

Hal

[death-by-monkey.livejournal.com]

Seriously, I mean, in terms of movies that -don't- need to be remade, The Seven Samurai have got to be pretty high up there. Not only just from the perspective of not wanting to mess with an amazing film - but I mean, how many times has it -already- been remade?

[bryant]

Indeed. Transferring it to a different genre, well, that's kind of intriguing. But...

I dunno, maybe they'll turn it into a Hong Kong bullet ballet John Woo flick with a worthwhile director. Maybe I'm too pessimistic.

[editswlonghair.livejournal.com]

Well, maybe good things can come out of it... 'Magnificent Seven' was pretty good. And that anime 'Samurai7' wasn't horrible... but it wasn't great either.

Then again, 'Last Man Standing' was awful, so yeah, No Good will probably come of this.

[editswlonghair.livejournal.com]

Oh! And also, the Weinsteins have done such an amazing job of snapping up Asian properties and then never releasing them stateside! I waited forever for the remake of 'Zu' to get shown over here theatrically and it never did.