Samurai Pic Thirteen Assassins to be remade

[GreenScar]

From Variety

Producers Jeremy Thomas and Toshiaki Nakazawa are teaming to make helmer Takashi Miike's samurai pic "Thirteen Assassins."

Project, which is set in the shogun era and follows 13 assassins who come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord, is based on Eiichi Kudo's 1963 film of the same name.

Thomas' U.K.-based Recorded Picture Co. will co-produce with Nakazawa, who produced the foreign language film Oscar winner "Departures."

Hanway Films, which Thomas founded in 1998, will handle international sales. Toho has acquired Japanese rights.

Principal photography starts July in Japan's Yamagature Prefecture.

Nakazawa previously worked with Miike on Quentin Tarantino starrer "Sukiyaki Western Django" and "The Bird People in China."

Thomas has a long history of working with Asian directors and on Asian subject matter.

He raised most of the money for Bernardo Bertolucci's $25 million "The Last Emperor" independently, at one point even scouring phone books for sources of finance, and also obtained permission from the Chinese authorities to lense in the Forbidden City. Pic, which was released in 1987, won nine Academy Awards, including best picture.

[WyldeMan45]

Isn't 13 Samurai what we adapted into The Magnificent Seven? A buddy and me decided to rent "Sukiyaki Western Django" a few weeks back because in general I like what Miike does, and anything with Tarantino's name attached to it, I see, but I found that to me incredibly horrible. It wasn't enjoyable for me at all, and just seemed beyond over the top and possibly Tarantino in the beginning with the southern accent might have been the worst part of the entire movie. I sure hope he doesn't make this one like that.

[Kyo28]

Originally Posted by WyldeMan45

Isn't 13 Samurai what we adapted into The Magnificent Seven?

I thought The Magnificent Seven was a Western inspired by Shichi-nin no Samurai (七人の侍) (The Seven Samurai) by Kurosawa Akira.

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by Kyo28

I thought The Magnificent Seven was a Western inspired by Shichi-nin no Samurai (七人の侍) (The Seven Samurai) by Kurosawa Akira.

Oh right, that is what I was thinking of.

[MOONPHASE]

Originally Posted by Kyo28

I thought The Magnificent Seven was a Western inspired by Shichi-nin no Samurai (七人の侍) (The Seven Samurai) by Kurosawa Akira.

And then came the anime based off of Seven Samurai