MGM+ has found its new Goodnight Robicheaux. The upcoming series remake of The Magnificent Seven has cast a role originated by Ethan Hawke in the 2016 film, alongside three other new additions as filming continues in Calgary.
MGM+’s The Magnificent Seven adds four new stars to the cast
Joshua Close, Ken Yamamura, Michael Rubenfeld, and Joel Nankervis have all joined The Magnificent Seven remake, Deadline reported. They will be series regulars on MGM+’s eight-episode drama.
Close steps into the part of Skelton, a cold and calculating bounty killer. The character is a new interpretation of Goodnight Robicheaux, the conflicted Confederate sharpshooter Hawke played in Antoine Fuqua’s 2016 film, which grossed $162 million worldwide. Skelton is a former Confederate raider who operates by a brutal personal code. Will Patton’s Cyrus Clemons hires him to command an army against the villagers, but Skelton proves difficult to control.
Additionally, Yamamura plays Kenjiro, aka “Kenji,” a samurai displaced by Japan’s Meiji Restoration. After avenging his father’s murder, he fled to America carrying only his sword and shame. Despite this weight, he remains warm and curious, quietly waiting for a righteous cause to use his blade.
Rubenfeld takes on Eli “Wick” Kagan, a reclusive mechanical genius whose childhood illness kept him indoors reading engineering books. His crooked grin masks loneliness. Further, Nankervis takes on Jebidah “Jeb” Campbell, a witty Quaker teenager who worships gunslingers despite his community’s nonviolent teachings. When his village is ambushed, Jeb believes fighting back is the only choice.
The new cast members will join the previously announced actors Matt Dillon, Joanne Froggatt, Michael Ealy, Amy Forsyth, and Danny Pino. Tim Kring, creator of Heroes, writes and executive produces The Magnificent Seven remake.
MGM+’s series, set in the 1880s American frontier, follows seven flawed mercenaries hired to defend a peaceful Quaker village from an evil land baron’s forces. Themes of honor, sacrifice, redemption, morality, and faith underpin the narrative as characters wrestle with whether violence can ever be justified in the name of protecting non-violent people.
Originally reported by Devanshi Basu on ComingSoon.
