Seeking to exploit the local mining industry, robber baron Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard, also at the Festival in Jackie) and his private army of henchmen stroll into the town of Rose Krick and execute a vicious takeover.
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Director Antoine Fuqua says getting Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington onboard for “The Magnificent Seven” was not easy. Sometimes you’ve got to go to bed mad, but at least touch toes, you know what I mean? If you can’t wait, we have free tickets to an advanced screening.
“Maybe it shouldnt even be called a western – its a story that takes place on the frontier, on the edges of a young and new America”.
Actor Chris Pratt and son Jack Pratt ride in the Seafair Torchlight Parade Grand Marshal vehicle on July 30, 2016 in Seattle, Washington.
He said: “The most interesting thing to me is doing five lines without lifting the pencil and some people don’t get it, you have to go outside the box in order to connect them without lifting it so it’s thinking outside the box”.
The movie was shot just outside Baton Rouge in the summer of 2015, when temperatures frequently soared to 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 degrees Celsius), and Denzel and Chris both admit dealing with the sweltering heat was the hardest part of the shoot. “I don’t know if you get older and wiser when you get older but you start to trim away the nonsense and you see what works over time”. “As long as the DNA stayed the same as far as (Kurosawa’s) film and John Sturges’ film, then I felt like we were in good shape”.
Washington leads a diverse cast of heroes, including Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, who is Mexican, Martin Sensmeier, a Native American, and South Korean Lee Byung-hun, as well as Ethan Hawke and Chris Pratt.
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In addition to his previous role as the lovable Andy Dwyer on the NBC series “Parks and Recreation”, Pratt has also shined as the leading man in films like “Jurassic World” and nailing the voice of the main character in “The Lego Movie”. The film will release in India on Friday.
