Chris Pratt's 'Cowboy Ninja Viking' Nabs 'Game of Thrones' Director Michelle MacLaren
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MacLaren has signed on to direct the 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2' star's next comic book movie which is scheduled to be released in June next year.

AceShowbiz - Chris Pratt's "Cowboy Ninja Viking" has found its helmer in Michelle MacLaren. The Hollywood Reporter first broke the news, revealing that MacLaren, who is best known for her award-winning work on the acclaimed TV shows "Breaking Bad" and "Game of Thrones", had signed on to helm the upcoming Universal action comedy film adaptation.

The report comes several months after the studio prioritized the project, an Image Comics adaptation which has been in development since 2014, in the summer when it dated the action movie for a June 28, 2019 release in theaters across the United States. MacLaren beat out Jennifer Yuh Nelson ("Kung Fu Panda") and Rick Famuyiwa ("Dope") for the gig.

With its current release date, "Cowboy Ninja Viking" will compete against an untitled Men in Black spin-off (June 14), "Toy Story 4" (June 21) and the "Spider-Man: Homecoming" sequel (July 5). Craig Mazin wrote the most recent draft of the script after the initial screenplay was penned by Paul Wernick and Everett David Reese, the writing duo behind the "Deadpool" film series.

Producing are Entertainment 360, the production arm of Management 360, Mark Gordon via The Mark Gordon Co., Michael De Luca via his Michael De Luca Productions, and Pratt. Sara Scott will oversee production on behalf of Universal, which is also the home of the other tentpole franchise of the "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" star, "Jurassic World".

In "Cowboy Ninja Viking", 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 super bad 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.

One of the most in-demand helmers for prestige and big-budget TV shows, MacLaren has worked on such hits as "Westworld", "The Leftovers", "The Walking Dead" and most recently the pilot for HBO's "The Deuce", in addition to "Game of Thrones" and "Breaking Bad". She was originally set to direct "Wonder Woman" by Warner Bros., but the two parties later parted ways over creative differences.

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