Pratt, however, is on a press tour at present for his movie The Magnificent Seven. The director added that Denzel tortured him on goal.
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Written by Nic Pizzolato, of True Detective infamy, and Richard Wenk, who did Fuqua’s The Equalizer, the film does little-to-nothing to distinguish itself from a century’s worth of cinematic Westerns. “He tortured me for a while”. So it is that one classic concept, Akira Kurosawa’s iconic 1954 epic Seven Samurai, can be fractioned off infinitely: most famously as a 1960 Western revered in its own right, and now again more than half a century later with a new set of stars, a few fresh ideas, and a lot of the same old arithmetic. On camera and off Pratt provides the comic relief as exemplified by his performance in the western and interviews at the recent Toronto International Film Festival where The Magnificent Seven had its premiere. The cast and crew spent a few moments taking pictures with fans and signing autographs on the red-carpet ahead of the event, talking about the film and remaking a classic.
“The Magnificent Seven” casts Denzel Washington and Chris Platt will be back in the big screens.
United States actor Ethan Hawke holds up his Donostia Award for lifetime achievement at the 64th San Sebastian Film Festival, Friday.
You could do worse than putting it all in the capable hands of Denzel Washington, with some help from Chris Pratt. He kind of dragged me out and then he finally made me fly to NY and have lunch and paint the whole picture – which is kind of what he does to me sometimes.
Although not a direct remake, Fuqua’s movie two-steps with the past, presenting new characters with glimmers of the old. “But he doesn’t know that what the film is actually about is people gathering together to defeat him”.
Fuqua said: “When I did “The Equalizer” I was in NY and he heard that I may do ‘ The Magnificent Seven”.
“I’ve been on the road for 14 months – I did three movies back to back to back – so I’m taking six months off”, he said. Part of me keeps thinking, we could very well be living in the Wild West these days though you would hope those having our best interests were as heroic and slick-and in some cases as good-looking-as some these lads. So he was there.
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He said: “You pick a side – you can be as people most of your life but you’ve gotta sit out at some point and look in the mirror”. Perhaps signaling a box office changing of the guard, Washington then joked, “I just wanted to be in Chris Pratt’s movie”.
