The story of “The Magnificent Seven” has been a part of cinema consciousness for a long time with Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 film “Seven Samurai”.
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Pratt is now on a press tour for The Magnificent Seven and said he is actually taking an extended break from acting, reported Parade magazine.
When asked how he feels about his life’s work, he said, “I’ve tried to focus my entire life on the goal of making substantive meaningful art”.
The cast is very diverse, and Fuqua feels that “it’s one of these things where you don’t get to make these kinds of movies anymore”. Against the history of film, their scenes of friendship are merely good, but against the chaotic banalities of recent studio fare they play like Turner Classic Movies. “I never had the opportunity – and I dont know if Ill get another opportunity – to do a western”, Washington said.
Fuqua said he was always passionate about Westerns and how the genre changed over time under the influence of Italian director Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns. “If not, we’re going to build it again”. “That’s more typical than you know, movies of the 50s and 40s, where there’s nobody [that] looks like us…”
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With the town of Rose Creek under the deadly control of industrialist Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard), the desperate townspeople employ protection from seven outlaws, bounty hunters, gamblers and hired guns – Sam Chisolm (Denzel Washington), Josh Farraday (Chris Pratt), Goodnight Robicheaux (Ethan Hawke), Jack Horne (Vincent D’Onofrio), Billy Rocks (Byung-Hun Lee), Vasquez (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), and Red Harvest (Martin Sensmeier). He just starts singing.
