Thursday, April 17, 2008

Is nothing sacred?

"Seven Samurai" will start shooting in the fourth quarter for release in 2009. The cast will feature American, European and Asian stars, and a director is in advanced talks with TWC.


I understand that American's dislike watching subtitled movies. And I understand that classic movie remakes are a Hollywood cash cow. It seem to me, though, that some movies are beyond that. Nobody can remake Citizen Kane, or Casablanca, and NOBODY can remake a Kurosawa movie. While Seven Samurai has been re-imagined and mined for inspiration dozens of time, it has avoided a direct remake so far. It looks like that has changed...

2 comments:

Zach said...

The only way that movie would be any good was if they cast Jessica Alba and called the movie "Snow White and the Seven Samurai"

HelloBettyLou said...

I an totally with you TG. But nothing is sacred in Hollywood.