With upcoming remakes from its extensive back catalogue, including Robocop and Carrie in production, MGM studios plans to resurrect another classic: John Sturges’ 1960 western The Magnificent Seven.
For anyone who hasn’t watched television on a rainy public holiday in the last few decades, it’s a story about seven gunmen hired to protect a small agricultural village in Mexico from ruthless bandits led by Eli Wallach’s Calvera. Tom Cruise has been attached to lead and fill Yul Brynner’s spur jangling boots but who will join him in completing one of the most famous line ups in cinema history? My potential gunslingers are ones I thought could fill (or attempt to anyway) the boots of the original cast, work well together and be as cool as the proverbial cucumber…
7. Chico – Gael Garcia Bernal
Horst Buchholz played the inexperienced Mexican hothead Chico who desperately wants to join the seven. For the remake I think they should cast a South American actor (Buchholz was German) and if you need a South American actor with youth, looks and talent you could do worse than Gael Garcia Bernal.
It may also mean he’s too busy to make any more of those razorblade adverts so everyone is a winner…for this reason only you could also consider Adrian Brody…and Andre 3000.
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Love the idea of John C. Reilly.
What about Yul Brynner’s character??
Tom Cruise is already attached to play the Yul Brynner role…one small mistake though from myself, Michael Fassbender was directed by Steve McQueen (Hunger) not Tom Hardy…D’oh
None of these will ever happen which is a huge shame! Great article though. Very good read during my lunch break! Thanks dude.
You’re welcome, thanks for the comments
Good read dude but Tom Cruise will never want to share the screen with soem of these guys (too young too talented etc) he will pick actors older than him like Kevin Costner? Bobby Duvall? etc
Michael Fassbender instead of Tom Hardy. Brad Pitt instead of Ryan Gosling, Jim Carey maybe