The Magnificent Seven remake brings something new to the table

In remaking classic western, The Magnificent Seven, the director and cast had to bring something different to the table, writes Helen Barlow

AFTER the rigours of 2001’s Training Day, Denzel Washington, who won an Oscar for his role as a burnt out cop, has been loyal to the film’s director Antoine Fuqua, starring as a formidable hitman in The Equaliser. Ethan Hawke, Washington’s more honourable Training Day buddy cop, has likewise stuck by the director, also appearing in Brooklyn’s Finest.

“Training Day was a hard movie to make and we filmed in a rough area,” Fuqua recalls. “It was a fight to make that independent kind of movie in the studio system and every day was tough. But whenever you work with friends you know they’ve got your back as I had theirs.”