Magnificent Seven in space.


In a review of MS, "Mathewscott8" wrote that the Magnificient Seven "could be transposed to just about any genre (have we seen it in space yet?"

The answer is "yes." The film is called Battle Beyond the Stars (1980). The plot outline is "Seven futuristic mercenaries are assembled to defend a helpless farm colony from an evil overlord." Former MS actor Robert Vaughn is in it.

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Joss Wheddon penned and episode of Firefly (Heart of Gold) as a throw back to The Magnificent Seven. If interested you should check it out, it's good.

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Does anybody know where I'd be able to obtain a copy of "Abbott and Costello meet the Magnificent Seven"? Thanks in advance!

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I'm sure you're thinking of "Abbott and Costello, the Three Stooges and Cheech and Chong ARE the Magnificent Seven." I think I saw it uploaded on YouTube, in 10-minute clips of course, but I didn't write down the URL and it's not coming up on their search engine.

I heard the estate of Curly Joe is fanatically vigilant about enforcing Stooge copyright issues, which is carrying "proprietary interest" way too far-- not only was Curly Joe the worst Stooge by far, he's not even IN this turkey. Just plain Curly is, and that "Curly Joe" piece of work plays the confusion for all it's worth-- excuse me, his estate does.

Which all invites the question-- when is this gem going to be released on DVD?

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There was an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise that puts the crew of the Enterprise in the role of the 7 with Klingons filling the roles of Eli Wallach and his band.

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The Star Trek episode was called "Spectre of the Gun", and in it, Captain Kirk, Spock, Scotty and Chekov represented the cowboy faction of the Clantons and McLaurys who fought the Earps and Doc Holliday at The Gunfight at the OK Corral. They survived the shootout after Spock reasoned that what they were experiencing was an illusion.

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I haven't seen any of it, but wasn't Blake's 7 a retelling of Magnificent Seven in space?




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'Battle Beyond the Stars' was a childhood favourite of mine. It's super-cheesy (it's a Roger Corman film!) but is great fun, contains effects work by a very young James Cameron and features an absolutely fantastic score. It's also my favourite "line up" character-wise of the 'Seven Samurai' concept, as IMO it's the version that most lets you grow to care about the Seven before (most of them) die.

Best parts: John Saxon's wonderfully egocentric villain (best last words ever), Sybil Danning's jaw-droppingly hot Valkyrie character and Robert Vaughn playing the same character from the original 'Magnificent Seven;... but actually even cooler!

I would highly recommend it to any M7 of sci-fi fans.

Fun trivia: for some reason, it's a highly "sampled" movie for Corman's other works; space/effects clips are recycled from BBTS for at least half a dozen other movies!

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There's an episode of the original Battlestar Galactica called The Magnificent Warriors that is homage to M7.


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http://youtu.be/TBAuO1McLxg

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