HipHollywood sat down with Antoine Fuqua and the cast of T”he Magnificent Seven” to discuss directing a possible Oscar worthy film. He also points out that he wasn’t trying to make a racially diverse western; he just wanted the best actors for the parts.
The Magnificent Seven is a 2016 American western action film directed by Antoine Fuqua, and written by Nic Pizzolatto and Richard Wenk. A remake of the 1960 western film of the same name, which in turn was a remake of the 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai, the film stars Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, Lee Byung-hun, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier, Haley Bennett and Peter Sarsgaard.
