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Remakes of Battle Royale and The Seven Samurai on the horizon

by Chris ⋅ June 10, 2006 ⋅ Comment now ⋅ Subscribe RSS

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So, you probably already knew about the pending Oldboy remake by Justin Lin, the My Sassy Girl remake starring Jessica Alba, and the Kairo remake starring Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell). Now add to this list Battle Royale and The Seven Samurai.

New Line will be handling the Battle Royale remake. The funny thing is that Toei wanted to release the original here, but in a wide release on over 300 screens. The Hollywood suits wouldn’t agree to that, despite the film’s legions of American fans, and decided to go ahead with their own “hard R” remake.

The Weinstein Company will be in charge of The Seven Samurai remake. Now, The Seven Samurai has already been remade as The Magnificent Seven and A Bug’s Life, but I guess Harry and Bob want to make a straight remake of the original, in color. Oh yah, and look forward to the perpetuation of Hollywood’s “all look same” attitude with the brothers’ recent casting of Zhang Ziyi.

Hollywood, the endless, culture plundering, remake machine. Oh well. I guess things have to hit bottom before they can get any better. At least they shouldn’t be able to remake recent gems like The Great Yokai War, Zebraman, or 9 Souls. Or could they?