THE upcoming remake of “The Magnificent Seven” has been chosen to launch this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.

    Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt and Ethan Hawke star in Antoine Fuqua’s retelling of the 1960 Western classic.

    Oliver Stone’s film about whistle-blower Edward Snowden, Ewan McGregor’s first feature as a director and a film version of children’s book “A Monster Calls” will also screen at the event.

    The 41st Toronto International Film Festival runs from Sept. 8 to 18.

    Vincent D’Onofrio, South Korean star Byung-hun Lee, Mexico’s Manuel Garcia-Rulfo and Native American actor Martin Sensmeier round out the film’s titular septet.

    Snowden, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the U.S. National Security Agency contractor who leaked top secret intelligence files, is among a number of other high-profile titles to have gala premieres at the Canadian festival.

    Others include McGregor’s “American Pastoral,” an adaptation of the Philip Roth novel, and “A Monster Calls,” in which Liam Neeson will be heard as the voice of a tree monster who befriends a young boy.

    Chinese filmmaker Feng Xiaogang’s “I Am Not Madame Bovary” and Cheng Er’s “The Wasted Times” are among the 19 galas and 49 special presentations titles.

    The event will close with the world premiere of “The Edge of Seventeen.”

    (SD-Agencies)