Tag: Akira Kurosawa
Scott Mann to Direct Seven Samurai Remake
Yes, the remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai is actually going to happen. And just in case you’re wondering who will be behind the whole thing, we’re here to share that info with you!
It’s The Weinstein Company we’re talking about, and yes, this is going to be a huge, $60 million budget project, with director Scott Mann on board to handle one of the most thrilling movie epics of all time!
For those of you who aren’t quite sure what we’re talking about (although we guess that’s almost impossible), Seven Samurai (1954) tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
Chris Rock To Remake Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low!?
Missing remakes!? We neither, but Mike Nichols is set to direct a remake of Akira Kurosawa‘s High and Low for Miramax Films.
But ok, we should write about this without prejudice, because, as you will have a chance to see by reading the rest of the report, some interesting names are involved around the whole thing…
So, we know that this remake movie is based on the 1963 detective thriller classic from director Akira Kurosawa. Kurosawa’s movie, starring Toshiro Mifune was based on the Ed McBain novel King’s Ransom about a businessman who is ruined when he honorably pays ransom to kidnappers who mistakenly nabbed his driver’s son.
Interesting story was about to reincarnate once again, and at the time there was a kind of perfect plan.
It was planned to be written by David Mamet and produced by Scott Rudin. Martin Scorsese originally commissioned Mamet to write the screenplay back in 1999 and it took two years for Rudin to pull the rights together.
This was the part we said was interesting at the beginning. Ok, well, take a deep breath now, guys!
Yesterday, we heard a rumor, that goes like this: Chris Rock revealed his next project to Black Voices! So, what is Rock doing in this report, you might wonder? Well…(you already took that breath!?) he is writing the screenplay remake adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 detective thriller High and Low! There you go!
Akira Kurosawa’s 100th Anniversary Celebrated With Free Seven Samurai Showing in L.A.
It’s no secret that hundreds of filmmakers, actors and cinema enthusiasts have been inspired by Akira Kurosawa‘s films over the years. With March 23rd representing the 100th Anniversary of his birth, the master of cinema is as influential today as he ever was. Established greats such as Martin Scorsese credit Kurosawa as being a major influence in their life’s work. In a recent interview, Scorsese couldn’t stress enough the importance of Kurosawa, “Let me say it simply, Kurosawa was my Master.”
To celebrate Kurosawa’s 100th Anniversary, the Green Planet Movie Awards has managed to pull in two of Japan’s top directors Shinya Tsukamoto and Hitoshi Iwamoto for the March 23rd event to attend in person an open screening of Kurosawa’s most famous and influential picture “Seven Samurai.” “To be able to screen one of Kurosawa’s and indeed the world cinema’s greatest films to the public, and have two top Japanese directors there in person to interact with the audience about it is such a huge opportunity for any film fan! It’s going to be an amazing event,” commented an excited Darrell Nelson, the Asia representative for the Green Planet Movie Awards.
