io9 posted a tidbit today that Seven Samurai is receiving a sci-fi facelift from a certain Shane Salerno (no, I’m not familiar with him either, although io9 claims he penned the Shaft remake - which I quite liked actually).

And no, this isn’t the other remake they keep talking about.

I could probably work up a lot of bile over this if I wanted, but it’s probably not worth the effort. Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai has been re-made so many times at this point it seems pointless to get worked up over yet another re-hash, and conversely it’s just as hard to get excited.

The script’s current title isn’t much to write home about, either. Doomsday Protocol? Wasn’t Vin Diesel just in that? I don’t know - and frankly I don’t care. The attention-deficit young adult crowd will probably eat it up like high-powered ritalin, but I’m past the point of caring.

Although it does make me want to go home and watch the original.