Chris Pratt Getting Ready For The Magnificent Seven?

James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy star Chris Pratt stars are on the rise you will also see him in Colin Trevorrow’s upcoming Jurassic World, The Hollywood Reporter has the news, also confirming that the star was sought for and passed on Seth Gordon’s upcoming video game adaptation Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune  and western remake The Magnificent Seven.

Originally drafted by “True Detective” scribe Nic Pizzolatto (since rewritten by The Blind Side‘s John Lee Hancock), The Magnificent Seven will remake the 1960 film directed by John Sturges that itself was inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 classic Seven Samurai. Sturges’ version starred Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn and Robert Vaughn as a group of disparate gunmen who come together to protect a Mexican village from bandits led by Eli Wallach. It led to a number of sequels as well as a CBS television series.