Heroes’ Tim Kring to create TV adaptation of The Magnificent Seven for MGM+

Amazon-owned streamer and network MGM+ has greenlit a series adaptation of classic western movie The Magnificent Seven.

Michael Wright

Produced by MGM+ Studios and MGM Television Studio, the series comes from writer and executive producer Tim Kring (Heroes, Touch), with filming slated to begin in June 2026.

Set on the 1880s American frontier, the project follows seven gifted but flawed mercenaries who are hired by a village community to protect them following the killing of a peaceful Quaker.

The series will launch on MGM+ in the US, UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Chile. In addition to Kring, executive producers include Donald De Line (Billy the Kid, Foster Dade), Lawrence Mirisch and Bruce Kaufman.

The original The Magnificent Seven, released in 1960 and produced by The Mirisch Company, was based on Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai.

“Tim Kring is a master storyteller,” said Michael Wright, head of MGM+. “Tim, Donald De Line, Larry Mirisch and Bruce Kaufman have crafted a series that delivers the energy of a classic western, honours the legacy of the original film, and reasserts its timeless themes of the power of unity against oppression and flawed heroes finding redemption by helping those who can’t help themselves.”