Priyanka Chopra Joins Chris Pratt In COWBOY NINJA VIKING

According to The Hollywood Reporter, actress Priyanka Chopra has joined Chris Pratt in the film COWBOY NINJA VIKING. The new movie, from Universal, has the two playing love interests opposite one another. The film is currently in pre-production. Read more about the news from The Hollywood Reporter here!

The movie is set to be directed by Michelle MacLaren, with a script from Dan Mazeau, Ryan Engle, Craig Mazin, Paul Wernick and David Reese. COWBOY NINJA VIKING is based on the Image Comics by A.J. Lieberman and illustrator Riley Rossmo. The movie will hit theaters June 28, 2019.

An actor and producer, Priyanka Chopra has forged an impressive and prolific career in global cinema with lead roles in more than 50 commercially successful Hindi-language films, including the award-winning Fashion (08), and TIFF Official Selections What's Your Raashee? (09) and Mary Kom (14). She made her American TV debut on ABC's hit drama Quantico, and took on her first Hollywood role in the action-comedy Baywatch (17). Besides her acting career, Chopra is involved in a number of efforts to protect children's rights and promote the education of girls around the world, including UNICEF, for which she is a Goodwill Ambassador, and her namesake charity The Priyanka Chopra Foundation for Health and Education.

Pratt came to prominence from his television roles, including Bright Abbott in The WB drama series Everwood and Andy Dwyer in the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation. His early film career began with supporting roles in such mainstream films as Wanted, Jennifer's Body, Moneyball, The Five-Year Engagement, Zero Dark Thirty, Delivery Man and Her.

Pratt achieved leading man status after starring in two commercially successful films in 2014: computer-animated adventure comedy The Lego Movie and Marvel Studios superhero film GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (in which he portrayed Star-Lord). In 2015, he starred in Jurassic World, the fourth installment in the Jurassic Park franchise and his most financially successful film to date, earning $1.6 billion at the box office.

Pratt continued his leading man status with The Magnificent Seven and Passengers. He will reprise his role as Star-Lord in GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Vol. 2, Avengers: Infinity War and an untitled fourth Avengers film.

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