Scott Mann Will Direct the ‘Seven Samurai’ Remake, Moving the Action to Modern Thailand
Posted on Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011 by Russ Fischer
I’m not going to say that remaking a stone-cold classic like Akira Kurosawa‘s Seven Samurai is a fool’s errand. After all, some guy named Sergio Leone remake another Kurosawa classic, Yojimbo, and produced a classic of his own, A Fistful of Dollars, in doing so. Still, does it seem like a good idea? Not so much. The Weinstein Company has been mulling over a Seven Samurai remake for some time, and now the company has set a director: Scott Mann, who last directed the action/fight film The Tournament. Read More »
