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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Smith Mounts "Wild Bunch" Redux

Will Smith looks to star in and produce a modern version of Sam Peckinpah's classic 1969 Western "The Wild Bunch" says The Wrap.

The original film centres on a group of outlaws, among them William Holden and Ernest Borgnine, who plan one final bank robbery on the Texas-Mexico border as the traditional American West changes around them in 1913.

Warner Bros had previously hired Training Day's David Ayer to write a script for a Wild Bunch reboot. More recently Brian Helgeland and Tony Scott were working on a screenplay, but work on the project stopped after Scott's death last year.

This new version involves cartels south of the border and follows a disgraced DEA agent who assembles a team to go after a Mexican drug lord and his fortune.

Smith and Jerry Weintraub will produce and the search for a new writer is currently underway.

Smith is also attached to star in the action drama The American Can.

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