Chris Pratt Looking to Join THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN Western
I'm sure a floodgate of movie offers came rushing in to Chris Pratt after Guardians of the Galaxy came out. This guy is on the road to becoming a huge star. Variety is reporting that the actor is currently in early talks to star alongside Denzel Washington in MGM's remake of the 1960 western, The Magnificent Seven.
The Magnificent Seven is one of my favorite westerns, and I'm curious to see what this remake would look like. The movie itself is a remake of Seven Samurai. The story basically revolves around seven gunslingers who protect an oppressed Mexican village from a group of outlaws.
The film has been in development at the studio since 2012, and at one point Tom Cruise and Matt Damon were even looking to join the project. The current script was recently reworked by John Lee Hancock and True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto wrote the previous version.
We are going to see Pratt in Jurassic World next year, and he was also recently cast in the big screen adaptation of the comic book Cowboy Ninja Viking.