Antoine Fuqua has already lined up an impressive cast for his remake of the remake of Seven Samurai, meaning The Magnificent Seven. He has brought on Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, Haley Bennett, Byung-Hun Lee and Matt Bomer. And now we can add another person to that cast list: Peter Sarsgaard.
He will be taking on the villain role of the piece, playing robber baron Bartholomew Bogue. Sarsgaard has played villains in the past, and it can go either way with him. Let’s just hope it isn’t this again.
Sarsgaard is to play Bartholomew Bogue, a robber baron whose hired thugs kill the husband of a woman who hires a group of mercenaries (the titular seven) to take back the small town that has become Bogue’s stomping grounds. The script was most recently reworked by John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side) following up on a drafter written by “True Detective” creator Nic Pizzolatto.
In other relevant casting news for The Magnificent Seven, Jason Momoa has decided to exit the project, reportedly because his character “just didn’t have enough to do, and not much to say in the film”. Sargaard is not, however, replacing Momoa as the “Game of Thrones” and soon-to-be Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice star was playing a different character. So, Fuqua will have to go back to his pile of head shots again to come up with another actor.
The film is slated for a Jan. 13, 2017 release through MGM.
Original report from Deadline.
