The Magnificent Seven ride again in a version co-written by True Detective scribe Nic Pizzolatto and directed by American Antoine Fuqua.
The action Western - a remake of the 1960 John Sturges classic, which is itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1950 epic historical drama The Seven Samurai - is set to close the Venice film festival running August 31-September 10.
Fuqua's version stars multiple Oscar-winner Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lee Byung-hun, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier, Peter Sarsgaard and Haley Bennett, with cinematography by Calabria-born American Mauro Fiore.
The latter worked with Fuqua on his 2001 breakout hit Training Day as well as James Cameron's 2009 Avatar, for which he won a best cinematography Oscar.
The tale of a Western town who calls on a gang of seven outlaws, gamblers and bounty hunters to rid it of its tyrant opens in Italian theaters on September 29.
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