8 Movies That Were Secretly Remakes Of Remakes

7. The Magnificent Seven

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The Original: Seven Samurai (1954)

The Remake: The Magnificent Seven (1960)

The Remake Remake: The Magnificent Seven (2016)

If remakes of Christian epics aren't your flavour, 2016 also brought back The Magnificent Seven, a movie whose main selling point was that there's seven characters in the titular band. You can hardly blame the marketing for doing this - it may have a pretty solid cast (Denzel! Pratt!), but what the film was really trading on was the recognisable name - yet it still feels rather reductive for the number of the team to define the Western adventure.

Of course, 1960's The Magnificent Seven wasn't an original by itself, but a western transplant of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (we'll see a lot of him on this list). These are two incredibly similar films, with the same basic plot only distinguished by setting. And that€™s the point €“ the original Magnificent almost delights in how it€™s the same-but-different €“ which makes the prospect of more a little confusing.

What could another Western possibly add when everything else is so similar (bar an oddly inserted machine gun)?

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