Justice League Will Take Cues From The Magnificent Seven

Unite the (Magnificent) Seven!

In the 1960 classic Western The Magnificent Seven, which is an American remake of Akira Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai (1954), a small agricultural village in Mexico is terrorized by a group of marauding bandits (led by Eli Wallach). To protect themselves, the villagers go into town to buy guns and ammo, but end up hiring a gunslinger instead, who is played by Yul Brynner, and he goes and recruits six other gunfighters — played by Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholz, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn, and Brad Dexter — to help.

In Justice League, Batman will go on a similar journey, recruiting Wonder Woman, The Flash, Aquaman, and Cyborg to be a part of his magnificent six.

“I think a sort of Magnificent Seven aspect of the movie, the team building part of the movie,” director Zack Snyder told Comicbook.com and other press during a Justice League set visit. “You guys know I’m a fan of Magnificent Seven or of team making movies. It’s fun for me to finally get to this point now in the progression of these two movies where we are building a team and making the Justice League, if you will.”

By the way, a Magnificent Seven remake starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Vincent D’Onofrio, Matt Bomer, Ethan Hawke, Peter Sarsgaard, Haley Bennett and Cam Gigandet will be released this September. You can check out a trailer for it by clicking here.

Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman’s selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince, to face an even greater enemy. Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to find and recruit a team of metahumans to stand against this newly awakened threat. But despite the formation of this unprecedented league of heroes—Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and The Flash—it may already be too late to save the planet from an assault of catastrophic proportions.

The film is being directed by Zack Snyder, based on a screenplay by Chris Terrio. The cast features Ben Affleck as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Henry Cavill as Clark Kent/Superman, Gal Gadot as Diana Prince/Wonder Woman, Ezra Miller as Barry Allen/The Flash, Jason Momoa as Arthur Curry/Aquaman, Ray Fisher as Victor Stone/Cyborg, Amy Adams as Lois Lane, Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor, Jeremy Irons as Alfred Pennyworth, J. K. Simmons as Commissioner James Gordon, and Amber Heard as Mera.

Justice League will open in theaters on November 17, 2017.