2016's The Magnificent Seven was a remake of the 1960 classic and only achieved moderate success, perhaps because it remade the wrong movie.
In 2016, a remake of the 1960 film The Magnificent Seven, itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 classic Seven Samurai, was released to moderate success, but it remade the wrong movie. When a notorious outlaw and his caballeros threaten a small border town, village farmers set out to find gunslingers that will protect them, and seven infamous characters led by Denzel Washington's Sam Chisholm and Chris Pratt's Josh Faraday agree to answer their call.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Both Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and the original Magnificent Seven are considered classics of their eras, even though one takes place in feudal Japan and the other in the American West. The narrative device of a motley yet experienced group of individuals taking on a huge swarm of organized adversaries has been used many times across multiple genres, making it a timeless story.
Like Star Wars, the movie was a Space Western, and focused on a young man named Shad trying to recruit fighters from across the galaxy to protect his peaceful home planet from a ruthless warlord. Together with a pilot named Cowboy , reclusive gunslinger Gelt , and a cohort of androids, he goes to war against Lord Sador and his armada.
A Battle Beyond The Stars Remake Would've Been Better Than The Magnificent Seven Given Battle Beyond The Stars' mediocre budget, bad script, and general B-movie quality, it had great potential to be a solid sci-fi remade, unlike The Magnificent Seven. The latter had already been considered a classic, and a generic paint-by-numbers remake didn't offer anything new to the story.
The Magnificent Seven wasn't as popular as it could have been, whereas a brand new Battle Beyond The Stars would have felt less like a remake and more like an entirely new sci-fi extravaganza. Other than a few memorable scenes and some interesting props courtesy of Cameron, it got lost among other contenders for the Star Wars spotlight, but if it could be remade today, it would actually stand out, and maybe even have enough material to be developed into a franchise itself.
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