With the Weinstein Company's effort under way to remake Akira Kurosawa's 1954 classic THE SEVEN SAMURAI, scribe John Fusco has been tapped to pen the script for the redux, reports Variety.
"Samurai," which routinely shows up on critics lists of all-time best pics, is one of a trio of Asian classic remakes that Ziyi Zhang is in negotiations to star in for the Weinstein Co.
In the original, A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves.