As if starring in 2014’s most successful superhero movie with Guardians of the Galaxy wasn’t already enough, Chris Pratt has now lined up another comic book adaptation; Cowboy Ninja Viking. The series was created by A.J. Lieberman and artist Riley Rossmo for Image Comics, the publisher of The Walking Dead.
Cowboy Ninja Viking has been in development for a number of years now. Zombieland’s Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese originally penned a draft for Disney, but they passed on it because the script was “too edgy”. Universal then picked it up for Marc Forster to direct, but he dropped out and it’s been on the shelf since.
Pratt is apparently attached to play Duncan, a schizophrenic assassin with Multiple Personality Disorder who escapes from a shady government programme. He’s able to use the skills of a cowboy, a ninja, and a Viking, and while to onlookers he looks just the same, in his head Duncan transforms into three separate people.
It’s not clear how this would be portrayed on screen, but it sounds quite similar to recent flop, R.I.P.D.!
Pratt apparently turned down the lead role in Sony’s big screen adaptation of the Uncharted video game series, so just how attached to this project he really is with Guardians of the Galaxy 2 on the way is unclear.
