Tom Cruise will star in the MGM remake of the Magnificent Seven. No director is onboard yet, so there is still time to lobby the studio for that directing job.

Cruise says it won’t happen for quite some time yet, and his plate seems pretty full. Rock of Ages, Oblivion, All You Need is Kill, Van Helsing, and Paramount is after him for Top Gun 2.

MGM is currently busy with their RoboCop remake as well as Carrie later this year. It seems this is comfortable territory for MGM, as they have been primarily engaged in remakes lately. In today’s marketplace, studios are looking for properties with built in audiences.

Based on Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 classic Seven Samurai, the Magnificent Seven centers around a group of gunman hired to protect a Mexican village from bandits.

source: Variety