Sean Bean And Dougray Scott Cast In Irvine Welsh’s The Magnificent Eleven
You might remember that,last May,TrainspottingauthorIrvine Welshwas announced as the director ofThe Magnificent Eleven, a modern remake ofThe Magnificent Seventhat centers around a group of UK footballers (i.e. soccer players, which I pray doesn’t really require explanation) who rally around a Tandoori restaurant. We still don’t know that much about the picture, but at last there are some actors to associate with it:Sean Bean,Dougray ScottandRobert Vaughnhave all been cast.
When Brendon covered the film last year, he threw out this synopsis:
A modernization of the classic western in which the Cowboys are a struggling local amateur soccer team, the Indians run a nearby Tandoori restaurant and the bandits are a group of menacing thugs led by a maniac known simply as ‘Blonde Bob’.
We don’t know what roles Bean, Scott and Vaughn will play; their names are all we’ve got right now. It’s worth noting, asScreen Dailydoes, that Vaughn is the last surviving primary cast member fromThe Magnificent Seven.
And, yes, in the opening paragraph I referenced this film as a remake ofThe Magnificent Seven, which obviously originated as a remake of Akira Kurosawa’sSeven Samurai. At what point is this just a modern remake ofSeven Samurai? Good question, and I don’t reckon we’ll know the answer until seeing the film or getting ahold of Welsh’s latest script draft. Besides changing the setting from Japan to America,The Magnificent Sevenmerged a few characters from Kurosawa’s film and effected a few other notable changes. Since we’re moving up from seven primaries to eleven in this film, could some of the excised characters from Kurosawa’s film be making a comeback alongside the ones invented later?
Pete and John Adamswrote the original script draft, but when Welsh signed on he was said to be doing a rewrite in conjunction with the brothers.
