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For the love of Yul, please re-cast the MAGNIFICENT SEVEN remake

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So apparently Tom Cruise is going to "star" in a remake of The Magnificent Seven, which itself is a remake of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. What does "star" mean? The Variety story doesn't say. But you have to wonder whose shoes is he going to fill, or try to fill. Yul Brynner's? Steve McQueen's? Charles Bronson's? James Coburn's? I can't get my mind around any of those possibilities -- not just because John Sturges' first remake is still vivid in my mind, but because Cruise basically played man-boys until he was pushing 40, and it wasn't until very recently that I got used to the idea of him playing a character with any gravitas at all.
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  • By Matt Zoller Seitz
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  • May 22, 2012 12:25 AM
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More: Yul Brynner, Tom Cruise, Matt Zoller Seitz, Magnificent Seven

VERTIGOED: TOP GUN

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  • By De Maltese Valk
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  • May 1, 2011 6:05 PM
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More: Tony Scott, Tom Cruise, Top Gun

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