The Magnificent Seven

On the data. Four films about one character played by three actors, plus a series and a remake. The 1960 film is a remake, openly and with a licence. Akira Kurosawa made Seven Samurai in 1954, the remake rights were bought for two and a half thousand dollars and sold on, and a Japanese court later ruled that only one remake had ever been licensed. Kurosawa himself said the American version was a disappointment, although entertaining, and that it was not a version of his film. Chris Adams is then played by Yul Brynner in 1960 and 1966, George Kennedy in 1969 and Lee Van Cleef in 1972. No film mentions it. The titles are a real problem here. Seven Samurai was itself released in America in 1956 as The Magnificent Seven before reverting. Return of the Seven was later remarketed as Return of the Magnificent Seven. And there are two films simply called The Magnificent Seven, from 1960 and 2016. A listing with that title could be any of three different films. The 1998 series is based on the 1960 film rather than continuing the sequels. Robert Vaughn, who was one of the original seven, turns up in it as a judge, playing a new character rather than his old one. Its second season aired so erratically that the final episode did not go out until July 2000. The 2016 film requires nothing before it. A new Magnificent Seven series was greenlit at MGM+ in December 2025 with Matt Dillon as Chris Adams, with production due to start in Calgary in June 2026. No release date and no episode count have been announced, so it is not listed here yet.

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