On April 17, I told you that the people at Amazon Studios were beginning to take seriously the huge pool of IPs that he added to his ranks after the purchase of MGM for 8,500 million dollars, putting on the table a good number of projects for the big and small screen based on the juiciest licenses.
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Among them are ‘Stargate’, ‘A very legal blonde’, ‘Robocop’, The Thomas Crown secret’, ‘The Pink Panther’, or the mythical western that we are going to talk about next. This is none other than ‘The Magnificent Seven’, the feature film by John Suterges released in 1960 which, after having received a more than remarkable remake by Antoine Fuqua in 2016, He is already preparing his jump to television by the hand of Nic Pizzolato.
Deadline reports that ‘True Detective’ creator was linked to Amazon to create an original cathode western that he followed a former outlaw on an epic journey to assemble a gang while dealing with a threat from his past; idea that, little by little, he was mutating until becoming the reboot from ‘The Magnificent Seven’.
Pizzolato’s vision has been described as a production in the vein of the great epics of the golden age of the western in which an outlaw and his henchmen must form a band to defend an immigrant settlement during a war against Texas cattle ranchers, telling a great saga packed with adventure, action and romance.
Considering that the showrunner He has already signed the script for the 2016 film remake with Richard WenkAt the moment I have full confidence in the project. We’ll see how it evolves.
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