I see they're doing a remake of A Fistful of Dollars, which was already remade as Last Man Standing with Bruce Willis. A Fistful of Dollars was itself an unauthorized remake of Yojimbo. Fans are demanding that Scott Eastwood be cast in his father's role.
I didn't like A Fistful of Dollars. There were too many things that didn't translate at all from the samurai film to a western. Maybe they'll correct that stuff in this remake.
A Fistful of Dollars never stated the year it took place. There was a grave marker that had the year 1873 etched into it and the revolvers they used were first manufactured in the 1870's, but the rifles all came from the 1890s. It's common in westerns to use 1890's model Winchester rifles as stand-ins for 1873 Winchesters, but the Mexican Army soldiers were using Mauser rifles from the 1890s, plus they wore uniforms that came from around 1910. I got most of this information from a website where gun nuts identify movie firearms.
If the original movie was set in 1910 and was made 60 years ago, they could make a sequel with the original cast set in 1970. A few of the actors are still alive. There's Clint Eastwood, of course, at 94. Marianne Koch is apparently still alive although she gave up acting, went to medical school and became a doctor. The little kid in it is still kicking. There are others who are still living, but the characters they played were killed in the first movie.
Of course, there were also smugglers in A Fistful of Dollars buying guns in Mexico to sell to Indians in the United States which I don't think was an issue in the 20th century. So after sixty years, a sequel would likely be set in the 1930's.
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