GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Star Chris Pratt Will Unleash His COWBOY NINJA VIKING In 2019
Chris Pratt assured fans during the press tour for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 that he was still set to star in Cowboy Ninja Viking and now, the intriguing project has an official release date.
Universal Pictures has announced that Chris Pratt's Cowboy Ninja Viking will hit theaters on June 28, 2019. The film is an adaptation of A.J. Lieberman and Riley Rossmo’s graphic novel for Image Comics. Presently, the film will compete with an Untitled Marvel Film from Fox [06/07], an Unitled DCEU release [06/14], Toy Story 4 [6/21] and Transformers 7 [06/28].
Looking at those blockbusters, it will depend on whether Universal is positioning Cowboy Ninja Viking as a low-budget action thriller in the vein of John Wick or if it's intended to launch a franchise. It's hard to see a $100+ million new film performing well at the box office while being sandwhiched between such established brands and franchises.
Craig Mazin (The Huntsman: Winter's War) wrote the last draft of the script after polishing up an earlier effort by Deadpool writers Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese. There is currently no director attached to helm the project.
The American cowboy, the ninja, and the Viking form a triumvirate of toughness seldom equaled in world-to say nothing of pop culture-history. Each is superbad in his own right, but what about when the most deadly attributes of each can be found in one man? Duncan is such a man, the result of a secret government program to create soldiers for the war on terror. This experimental regimen conscripts people suffering from multiple personality disorder and turns them into "triplets," highly lethal operatives possessing three distinct personalities drawing from warrior/tough guy archetypes.