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Will Smith to produce and star in Wild Bunch reboot?
Project was originally to be taken on by the late diretor Tony Scott
Will Smith is reportedly in negotiations to both produce and star in a reboot of classic Western 'The Wild Bunch'.
It's not yet known whether he would also sing the theme tune...
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Plans to take on Sam Peckinpah's benchmark 1969 film have been in the works at Warner Bros. for some years now, with the late Tony Scott originally in the frame to reboot it.
But now Smith's encompassing production company Overbrook Entertainment could be set to pick up the project, along with legendary Hollywood producer Jerry Weintraub.
The new version would transplant the action to the modern day, with a disgraced DEA agent assembling a team to take on a mighty Mexican drug lord on his home turf.
Originally, it was being penned by 'LA Confidential' screenwriter Brian Hegeland, but it's thought that Smith would bring in a new scribe for the project.
The original film starred William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Ben Johnson and Warren Oates and was highly controversial for its use of graphic violence.
It's not the first time that Smith's Overbrook Entertainment has got to work on a reboot.
It has been behind the 2010 remake of 'The Karate Kid', with Smith's son Jaden, and the forthcoming 'Annie', with Jamie Foxx.
It also made 'I Am Legend', adapted from the book of the same name by Richard Matheson, which itself had already been made into two films, 'The Last Man On Earth' and 'The Omega Man'.
