‘The Magnificent Seven’ Trailer: I seek righteousness. But I’ll take revenge.
I had no idea that The Magnificent Seven was being remade. But is is! And here is a trailer for it. Being remade. Remake and reconstitute everything for fun and profit in the lottery of Hollywood Life! (Seriously, though, I don’t know, could be cool!)
First things first: I’ve never seen the 1960 Magnificent Seven, or the movie it was based on, Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai. So even though I’m kind of digging this Magnificent Seven> remake trailer, keep in mind I haven’t seen the earlier versions of this story, so I don’t have much of a point of comparison. That being said: this looks promising!
This first trailer features Denzel Washington as Sam Chisolm, Chris Pratt as Josh Farraday, Ethan Hawke as Goodnight Robicheaux, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as Vasquez, Vincent Do’Onofrio as Jack Horne, Byung-Hun Lee as Billy Rocks, and Martin Sensmeier as Red Harvest. Bryce Dallas Howard-look-alike Haley Bennett plays the woman requesting Sam Chisolm’s aid at the beginning of the trailer, and I’m hoping that she winds up having a more significant role in the movie overall than “lady who picturesquely weeps” (IMDB doesn’t even list a name for her character yet).
That concern aside, I do love the look and feel of this trailer; I’m a sucker for panoramic shots of horses and any use of “House of the Rising Sun.” They could have included that song in the end credits of Mortdecai and I probably would have come away thinking “great movie!” Hopefully Magnificent Seven will be better than that, at least.