Chris Pratt has played the loveable-but-dimwitted guy, the hero, the superhero and now he's playing the outlaw.
The Magnificent Seven remake received its first trailer, and Pratt has become a gun-toting outlaw in the western film. He teams up with Denzel Washington to protect a village (Rose Creek) that has been ransacked by a group of cruel and vicious thieves, who have been mercilessly killing innocent people. "Slaughtered in cold blood," the trailer explains.
It's a remake of the classic The Magnificent Seven, which is based on Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. Anton Fuqua is in charge this time, and reunited Washington and his Training Day co-star Ethan Hawke. The other members of Washington's squad, rounding out the Seven, are Vincent D'Onofrio, Martin Sensmeier, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, and Byung-hun Lee. Peter Sarsgaard plays Eli Wallach.
Like many of Pratt's previous characters, Josh Farraday (his new role) seems to have Pratt's knack for witty one-liners and zingers. Paired up with Washington's Sam Chisolm, these two and the rest of the gang are sure to provide some slight comic relief, which differs from the original film. The trailer is chock-full of violence, gunfire and even some bow-and-arrow play.
The Magnificent Seven hits theaters Sept. 23, 2016. Will you go see it? Sound off in the comments.
Pratt can also be seen in the upcoming sequel, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, and the new sci-fi adventure Passengers, which also stars Jennifer Lawrence. Passengers depicts a spacecraft transporting thousands of people, who have been put into hibernation, to a distant colony planet. Lawrence and Pratt play two of them, but they are woken up too early and are still decades away from reaching their destination.
"I really am extremely proud of this movie," Pratt said at CinemaCon this year.
"Me, too," Lawrence added. "If that sounded like I was being sarcastic, I was not. [The audience] started laughing and I want to make it clear that I am serious."
Look back at Pratt in 2003!