Clint Eastwood’s classic western A Fistful of Dollars is getting an official remake 60 years after its theatrical release.
Directed by Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone, the original film pioneered the “spaghetti western” genre and spawned an entire trilogy of dollar movies.
Eastwood, who turned 94 this May, played a mysterious gunslinger called the Man with No Name, his first starring role in a film.
Now, the 1964 film has a remake in development by Euro Gang Entertainment, though no stars or writers have yet been publicly announced for the project.
Jolly Film, an Italian production company that helped back the original film, is also one of the companies behind the remake, according to Deadline.
Clint Eastwood’s classic first western, A Fistful of Dollars, is officially remade, 60 years after its theatrical release; the original film is shown
The original was released in both English and Italian, but it is currently unknown whether the remake will be in one or both languages.
In the 1964 version of A Fistful of Dollars, the Man with No Name arrives in a border town between the United States and Mexico and wreaks havoc.
He becomes involved in a feud between two local smuggling families, the Reds and the Baxters, and takes advantage of their battle of wills to gain a profit for himself.
The film is widely regarded as an uncredited remake of the 1961 samurai film Yojimbo, directed by legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa.
Kurosawa’s work had already proven fertile ground as inspiration for Westerns, as his 1954 epic The Seven Samurai was the basis for the 1960 feature film The Magnificent Seven.
Eastwood and Leone made two sequels to A Fistful of Dollars: A Few Dollars More in 1965 and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in 1966.
A Fistful of Dollars was released five years after Eastwood got his big acting break in the hit western series Rawhide.
His star rose to fame with roles such as the Man with No Name in the Dollars Trilogy, as well as the title character in the classic bad cop Dirty Harry.
Eastwood, who turned 94 this May, played a mysterious gunslinger called the Man with No Name, marking his first leading role in a film.
In the 1964 version of A Fistful of Dollars, the Man with No Name arrives in a border town between the United States and Mexico and wreaks havoc.
Eastwood and director Sergio Leone then made For a Few Dollars More in 1965 and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in 1966; they are pictured on the set of the latter.
In April, it emerged that Eastwood had just completed Juror No. 2, which is rumored to be the legendary filmmaker’s final film; pictured in 2020.
In 1971, the year Dirty Harry was released, he also made his directorial debut with the thriller Play Misty For Me, starring alongside Jessica Walter and Donna Mills.
This April it was announced that Eastwood had completed Juror No. 2, which is rumored to be the legendary filmmaker’s final film.
The Unforgiven star, who was spotted looking frail in March, has cast Nicholas Hoult in the role of a man who comes to a chilling realisation while serving on a jury.
Little by little, the character realizes that he may have been guilty of the car accident that killed the person whose murder is on trial.
He finds himself in the agonizing position of having to decide whether to keep his name clear or help the innocent defendant to be acquitted.
A Fistful of Dollars was released five years after Eastwood got his big acting break in the hit western series Rawhide (pictured).
Post-production on the film wrapped in the spring, with sources saying… Variety that his studio, Warner Bros, was “delighted” by the images shown to him.
Hoult leads a formidable cast that includes Toni Collette, Zoey Deutch, Kiefer Sutherland, JK Simmons, Leslie Bibb and Chris Messina.
The film had a tumultuous road to completion, as filming had to be halted for months last year due to strikes in Hollywood.
Additionally, several studios reportedly turned down the project before Eastwood was able to find a home for it at Warner Bros.