Tom Cruise No Longer a MAGNIFICENT SEVEN; My Dad Silently Cheers

 

If you're my dad, you probably don't want The Magnificent Seven remade, let alone starring Tom Cruise; but now according to The Wrap it appears Cruise, who has been involved in the project since MGM decided "let's remake everything lol" in 2012 (which includes the upcoming Poltergeist film as well as 2014's brilliant looking ROBOCOP), has since left for undisclosed reasons and also Saving Mr. Banks and The Alamo director John Lee Hancock is on to rewrite the film.

Cruise first became interested in “Magnificent Seven” back in May 2012, when MGM began developing a remake of its library title, though with his busy schedule, the project was never in his immediate plans. Pizzolatto was hired in August 2012 thanks to heat generated by HBO’s upcoming miniseries “True Detective,” which stars Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson

The Wrap goes on:

Hancock is no stranger to the Western genre, having co-written and directed “The Alamo” for Disney, which has maintained faith in the filmmaker despite that film’s disappointing box office performance. Not only did the studio entrust him with its own Walt Disney movie “Saving Mr. Banks,” which is currently in the awards conversation, but it also turned to Hancock to fix its upcoming tentpole “Maleficent.” Hancock wrote several new scenes and helped oversee reshoots on the $200 million-budgeted Angelina Jolie movie.

No release date is set for the remake, which is reported to star Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, and Matt Damon.

The Magnificent Seven, based off of the acclaimed Akira Kurasowa film The Seven Samurai spawned 3 sequels and a CBS television series and starred Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter and Horst Buchholz.