No. Surely not. They’re remaking that?!

9 June 2006 Rob Buckley Film 1 Comment

We’ve already discussed the mostly senseless decision to remake The Wicker Man, which is coming to a cinema near you soon, sans pagans, sans great big wicker man.

Brace yourself though. There’s another remake being planned.

I don’t know how to break it to you, but the writer behind Young Guns and Hidalgo has been commissioned to write a script for a new version of…

…The Seven Samurai.

 

 

 

 

 

<BIG WHITE SPACE TO ALLOW THE SHOCK TO SETTLE IN>

 

 

 

 

 

I’m hoping it’s not true. I’m hoping no one is that insane.

But there are people who are that insane and they’re liable to hire Brett Ratner to direct.

And in case you didn’t think all that was bad enough, word is leaking out as to who they’re planning to cast in it.

First name: Donnie Yen.

Good move. Cracking actor, cracking martial artist. No problems there.

Second name: George Clooney.

WTF?

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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