One Of The Funniest Movies Ever Is Getting Remade — cinemablend.com

Deadline has picked up news that Open Road Films has acquired a new project called Blazing Samurai that is said to be "loosely based on the iconic 1974 film Blazing Saddles." Helmed by first-time feature directors Chris Bailey (who served as an animation supervisor on the first two Alvin and the Chipmunks movies) and Mark Koetsier (a story artist on Kung Fu Panda and How To Train Your Dragon), the new family film is said to center on a dog named Hank living in a town called Kakamucho. For an unidentified reason, he is the one put front and center in a fight against a "nefarious feline warlord," and must find a way to save his town, becoming a samurai in the process.

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