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ROAD HOUSE Gets A Remake With Ronda Rousey Starring

ROAD HOUSE Gets A Remake With Ronda Rousey Starring

Michael Stokes last turned in a script draft in 2013 for The Fast And The Furious and Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story helmer Rob Cohen to direct, inspired by the original in which actor Patrick Swayze portrays James Dalton, a bouncer hired to reinforce the security in Missouri’s most eruptive bar, The Double Deuce, only to come to blows with the town’s most notorious businessman. Apart from its 2006 direct-to-video sequel, the film went on to become a major cult classic for Swayze in the years leading up to and after his tragic passing from cancer in 2009. His widow, Lisa Niemi, reportedly gave Rousey her blessing when the actress brought the news forward, stating she wanted to be respectful to the original film and its star.

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Two More Join Fuqua's THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN

It’s been a few days since MGM’s forthcoming Western reboot, The Magnificent Seven announced at least one more key role in the form of actor Peter Sarsgaard who will play the villain, via Variety. Since then it’s also been stated that actor Jason Momoa dropped out after his name began circulating a few weeks ago, but casting has moved on with at least two more now in the mix.

Deadline reports that actors Manuel Garcia-Rulfo and Martin Sensmeier will play the respective roles of “Vasquez” and “Red Harvest”, joining lead actor Denzel Washington in a remake of director John Sturges’s titular 1960 Western adaptation of an earlier Kurosawa classic. The new film reunites Washington will his Training Day and The Equalizer helmer Antoine Fuqua from scribe John Lee Hancock’s final draft which centers on a group of five outlaws hired to protect a small mining town from a ruthless gold baron.

Actress Haley Bennett and actors Ethan Hawke, Chris Pratt, Wagner Mouran, Vincent D’Onofrio, and Byung-hun Lee round out the current cast for the film’s expected release of January 13, 2017. Fuqua‘s latest film, boxing drama Southpaw starring Jake Gyllenhaal will open on July 24 courtesy of TWC.

Stay tuned for more info!

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Antoine Fuqua's THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN Adds Two More To The Cast!

I will be the first to admit that I am old at 52 and I happen to love Westerns. Growing up with a father born in Kentucky, and a mother from Oklahoma, my tastes in music and film partially stemmed from their influence. And one of those influences is the appreciation of country music. I get that from my mom and dad. Films on the other hand, were directly influenced by my father. I grew up watching John Wayne films that my father enjoyed. And I enjoy them too. The last Western I watched was the intriguing Cowboys vs Aliens that I found “amusing,” to say the least. My dad would have laughed at this.

So, normally, whenever a new Western was on TV that my father had not seen before, my older brother and I made a family night together with dad.

One of my father’s favorite films was The Magnificent Seven. Also, The Alamo – but that’s another story entirely. It was with interest that I found Training Day and The Equalizer helmer Antoine Fuqua was directing a remake of this classic. But instead of a small Mexican village being terrorized by gun runners, we are having a mining town victimized and taken over by a gold baron.

So who is taking over the iconic roles portrayed by the original cast members? Let’s see: Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Haley Bennett, Ethan Hawke, Wagner Moura and Vincent D’Onofrio, and as of this week, actor Byung-hun Lee as “Billy Rocks” and actor Jason Momoa as the villain.

Lee, who will be co-starring in Alan Taylor’s Terminator: Genysis this July and Momoa, currently attached as Aquaman in Zack Snyder’s Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice as well as his own standalone film in a few years, are in very good company along with HBO’s True Detective writer Nic Pizzolatto penning the screenplay. The film is coming out on January 13, 2017 from MGM, with extra dilligence needed as we await more info on Fuqua‘s hopeful return to direct the officially greenlit sequel to last year’s The Equalizer.

For others, if boxing dramas are more your speed, Fuqua‘s Southpaw arrives in late July!

H/T: ComingSoon.net via THR, Deadline

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Evan Daugherty To Pen TOMB RAIDER Reboot For Warner Bros.

It’s been close to fourteen years since Paramount Pictures introduced the filmgoing world to a live-action iteration of Lara Croft a la actress Angelina Jolie based on Square Enix’s popular Tomb Raider game franchise. The film did well for itself while its sequel didn’t perform equally at the box-office and that’s so far been the history of the franchise until 2011 when GK Films’s own, producer Graham King acquired the rights with MGM announcing their partneship for a theatrical reboot.

This week, the film is reportedly on the fast track according to Deadline so we could be hearing some pretty cool casting news soon enough. In the meantime, Snow White And The Huntsman, Divergent and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles scribe Evan Daugherty has been tapped to pen the script. Acclaimed writers Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby (Children of Men, Iron Man) completed their own version of a Tomb Raider film several years ago as production was expected to start sooner, whereas King himself described the plot as more of a “character story” featuring a younger Lara Croft with lots of action.

Ultimately, Daugherty’s addition means some changes will be made to fit the narrative, so any hopes of looking into earlier names like Hayley Atwell (Agent Carter), Olivia Wilde (Cowboys And Aliens) and Sharni Vinson (You’re Next), may be moot at the moment. Nothing is quite clear yet as to how they plan to tell the story here so it’s all basically speculative as far as this film is concerned; If you’re curious about what Vinson herself said a few years ago about her interests in the role, click here. Otherwise, stay tuned for more info.

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