Chris Pratt’s Forgotten $90 Million Western Is a Silent Assassin on American Streaming Charts

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Chris Pratt opened the year with a stinker in The Electric State, but nearly 10 years ago, he starred in a forgotten Western that’s sniped a spot on streaming charts. Pratt features alongside Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke in The Magnificent Seven, a Western following seven gunmen of differing backgrounds who come together to protect a town from the private army of of destructive industrialist. The Magnificent Seven, which also stars Vincent D’Onofrio and Lee Byung-Hun (Squid Game), is streaming on Prime Video and Amazon MGM in America, where it’s one of the most popular movies on the platform, sitting at #7 at the time of writing. The film earned moderate scores of 64% from critics and 71% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, and it also grossed $162 million at the box office against a $90 million budget.

The Magnificent Seven is a remake of both Seven Samurai, the 1954 Akira Kurosawa film, and the 1960 film of the same name starring Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson. Nic Pizzolatto and Richard Wenk wrote the script for The Magnificent Seven, and Antoine Fuqua directed the film. Fuqua has worked with Denzel Washington plenty of times over the years — they first teamed up in 2001 for Training Day, the crime thriller with Ethan Hawke that saw Washington win his second Oscar. They most recently worked together on all three of Washington’s Equalizer movies, which are also having a moment on streaming right now. Fuqua even famously directed Shooter, the 2007 R-rated conspiracy thriller starring Mark Wahlberg, and Olympus Has Fallen, the 2013 one-person-army action thriller starring the legendary Gerard Butler.