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Global star LEE Byung-hun has signed on for yet another Hollywood production. According to his management company BH Entertainmenton May 6th, LEE has confirmed that he will board the remake of John Sturges’ 1960 film The Magnificent Seven, itself a remake of KUROSAWA Akira’s classic Seven Samurai (1954). So far the project has cast Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Vincent D’Onofrio, Wagner Moura and Ethan Hawke. Antoine Fuqua of Training Day (2001), Shooter (2007) and The Equalizer (2014), who is well-versed in male-driven action fare, will be directing the new western.

 

Set against the backdrop of a remote town, a woman hires a group of seven gunmen to kick out the bandits that have been terrorizing her town. The woman will be played by Haley Bennett, while LEE will take the role of Billy Rocks.

 

However, this isn’t LEE’s first foray in the western genre as he was cast in KIM Jee-woon’s2008’s hit film The Good, The Bad, and The Weird, which screened at the 61st Cannes International Film Festival.

 

While LEE’s two upcoming domestic films Inside Men and Memories of the Sword are awaiting their release, he will next be seen in Terminator: Genisys, which will hit North American theaters on July 1st.