50 Years Later, Best Western of All Time Is Getting a Remake and Fans Can’t Take It Anymore

Today, almost all popular franchises keep getting new installments. Fast & Furious is approaching its anniversary (and if you count the adventures of Hobbs and Shaw, there are already ten movies). A prequel of A Quiet Place was recently released. There's no point in counting how many Marvel, DC and Star Wars sequels and prequels have been made over the years – it's easy to get lost.

Now that we are used to numbers on posters, and sequels are rarely given their own titles, it is difficult for us to immediately guess the connection between the films A Fistful of Dollars and The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, even though they are part of the same trilogy.

Studios prefer to promote a brand rather than a movie. Why create something new when you can work on the recognition of something that came out several years ago and is remembered? A sequel or remake can be a success or a failure, but people will definitely come to the theater to see familiar characters.

And although the crisis of ideas is often supported by the viewers themselves, who go to theaters, most movie lovers are extremely depressed by the ever-growing trend.

A Fistful of Dollars is Going to Get a Remake And Fans Are Not Excited

And now this trend has affected the movie that is the embodiment of the word Western – A Fistful of Dollars already mentioned above.

The film is being produced by Euro Gang Entertainment and Italian producer Enzo Sisti, as well as Rome-based Jolly Film, which produced the original film. The project is in its early stages, so production details are being kept under wraps for now.

It doesn't take much guesswork to figure out that fans of the original movie were less than thrilled with the news.

“Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood ARE A Fistful of Dollars. Without them (and Gian Maria Volonté), it's just another forgotten spaghetti western,” Reddit user Dove_of_Doom wrote.

A Fistful of Dollars Itself is a Remake

Few viewers know it, but A Fistful of Dollars can be considered an unofficial remake of the Japanese cult movie Yojimbo. The classic spaghetti western that kicked off Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy is very similar in plot to the Japanese film by Akira Kurosawa.

A lone man arrives in a town torn apart by gangster showdowns and begins to help the citizens in order to eventually destroy all the villains. And the similarity is not accidental, of course.

Leone made no secret of the fact that he had borrowed a few ideas from the Japanese master. And the Toho company, which owns the rights to Yojimbo, sued the Italian director and eventually received 15% of the movie's revenues. However, this is one of the rare cases when both the object of plagiarism and the culprit entered the history of cinema.

A Fistful of Dollars Remake Has Only One Way to Succeed

A Fistful of Dollars is not a direct remake, but rather a reflection on the subject, insanely talented and infinitely beautiful. Leone's film made a young Clint Eastwood a star, his character's poncho became iconic, and the almost complete lack of dialogue gave the character a mysterious vibe.

Eastwood himself returned to similar imagery more than once, but the gunfighter had other followers – Mad Max, Django Unchained, and even Drive, to some extent, grew out of that very loner with a gun.

Perhaps to succeed, the upcoming remake should do the same – make a new reflection.