8 Movies That Were Secretly Remakes Of Remakes
7. The Magnificent Seven
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 thats the point the original Magnificent almost delights in how its 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)?