Chopra’s Hollywood spree

ACTRESS Priyanka Chopra’s Hollywood kitty is on an expansion spree. She will play the love interest of Chris Pratt, in Cowboy Ninja Viking.

The role in Universal’s big-budget tentpole was one of the more highly coveted and Priyanka beat a slew of talent after a chemistry test with Pratt went extremely well, reports variety.com.

Priyanka, who shot to fame in American showbiz with Quantico, is coming off the series’ final season. She recently appeared in A Kid Like Jake, opposite Jim Parsons and Claire Danes, and in Baywatch. She can next be seen in the comedy Isn’t It Romantic, with Rebel Wilson.

Cowboy Ninja Viking, which is in pre-production, is being directed by Game of Thrones fame Michelle MacLaren from a screenplay by Dan Mazeau, Ryan Engle, Craig Mazin, Paul Wernick and David Reese.

Based on the Image Comics graphic novel by AJ Lieberman and illustrator Riley Rossmo, the story revolves around a counterintelligence unit formed by psychotherapist Sebastian Ghislain, who transforms agents into what are known as Triplets – a reference to multiple personalities.

Pratt plays a formidable agent, with the fighting skills and personalities of a cowboy, a ninja and a viking.

The film is slated for a June 28, 2019, release, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

– IANS