The Magnificent Seven shall ride once again as MGM+ has ordered a Magnificent Seven TV series from Heroes creator Tim Kring.
The Magnificent Seven, which is a western remake of Seven Samurai, is considered a classic of the Western genre which starred Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, Yul Brynner, Charles Bronson and more in its 1960 release. It has quite a strong legacy that spawned sequels, a 1990s TV series and a 2016 remake from director Antione Fuqua which starred Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt.
Set in the 1880s American frontier, The Magnificent Seven follows a group of mercenaries who are hired to protect a peaceful Quaker village after it is massacred by a land baron’s hired guns. As the flawed but gifted mercenaries embed with the Quakers, they must grapple with the question of whether it is acceptable to use violence to defend a people whose faith is based on nonviolence. The series will explore each member of the Seven, exploring what’s at stake and why they chose to take on this mission.
Amazon had greenlit a Magnificent Seven series from True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto in 2023, but this new series has no connection to Pizzolatto’s pitched series and will instead serve as a series adaptation of the 1960 film. Amazon, which has owned MGM for a few years now, will put the series on the MGM+ streaming service rather than Prime Video.
Kring will executive produce alongside Donald De Line, Lawrence Mirisch and Bruce Kaufman with production scheduled for June 2026.
“Tim Kring is a master storyteller,” said Michael Wright, head of MGM+. “Tim, Donald De Line, Larry Mirisch, and Bruce Kaufman have crafted a series that delivers the energy of a classic Western, honors the legacy of the original film, and reasserts its timeless themes of the power of unity against oppression and flawed heroes finding redemption by helping those who can’t help themselves.”
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