Ethan Hawke To Reteam With Denzel Washington On Antoine Fuqua’s ‘Magnificent Seven’Posted by Wilson Morales
March 2, 2014
Source: Variety
Recent Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke (Boyhood) will be reuniting with Denzel Washington on his next project, Antoine Fuqua’s remake of ‘Magnificent Seven,’ reports Variety.
Hawke and Washington were first paired in Fuqua’s 2001 film Training Day, in which he and Washington received Academy Award nominations for their performances and Washington winning the Best Actor award.
Based on the 1954 Akira Kurosawa Japanese film, ‘The Seven Samurai,’ the 1960 Magnificent Seven, which starred Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, and Charles Bronson, was a film where a group of men (7) were hired to protect a small village in Mexico from a large group of bandits.
Chris Pratt and Hailey Bennett have already been cast in the film.
Nic Pizzolatto, who went on to write and exec produce HBO’s True Detective, wrote a draft and John Lee Hancock came on to rewrite the film.
