Prime Video plans a reboot of the classic Western tale.
Looks like The Magnificent Seven will ride again — this time as a Prime Video series.
According to Variety and other showbiz news websites, Nic Pizzolatto, creator of the HBO anthology drama series True Detective, will serve as writer and executive producer for the project. Prime Video has offered this logline for the reboot: “In the tradition of the great epics from the golden age of westerns, an outlaw and his cohorts must unite a disparate band of indelible fighters to defend a settlement of immigrant homesteaders in an open range war against cattle barons in central Texas, telling an expansive saga of adventure, action and romance.”
This won’t be Pizzolatto’s first rodeo: He was a co-writer of the 2016 Magnificent Seven remake starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, and Martin Sensmeier. Director John Sturges’ original 1960 Magnificent Seven, starring Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen, was itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 classic Seven Samurai. Sturges’ film spawned three sequels — Return of the Seven (1966), Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969), and The Magnificent Seven Ride! (1972) — and a 1998-2000 TV series for CBS.
No word yet about possible casting for the Prime Video Magnificent Seven series. Watch this space for further developments.
