© 2015 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. and CTMG. All rights reserved. (NEW YORK) — While at Good Morning America chatting with Michael Strahan about his new movie The Magnificent Seven, Chris Pratt also shared some love for another huge project: the sequel to Guardians of the Galaxy.
A lot of love, actually. “I can’t say much, but it’s going to be the greatest spectacle movie of all time,” said Pratt, before allowing, “I don’t want to oversell it.”
Tongue planted in cheek, Pratt said not only will Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 be better than, “all movies up till now,” but “also all movies extended forward. Never will there ever be anything like this again — so that’s cool,” he added, mock-humble.
Pratt said the sequel “picks up a couple of months after the events of the first movie and all the characters [are] back,” adding, “Kurt Russell’s also going to be in Part 2 and the soundtrack is off the chain.”
It’s already been confirmed that Russell will play Ego, the Living Planet, the long-lost father of Pratt’s character, Peter Quill/Star-Lord.
As for making Magnificent Seven, Pratt, who pays hard-drinking gunslinger Josh Farraday, said, “It’s a boy’s dream, man: horses, guns, cigars, walking around like a cowboy…Couldn’t believe they were paying me.”
The film, which also stars Denzel Washington, Vincent D’Onofrio, and Ethan Hawke, opens Friday.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 will be released May 5, 2017, by Disney, the parent company of ABC News.