- Title: As "The Tomorrow War" debuts online, Chris Pratt wants mobile phones off
- Date: 28th June 2021
- Summary: UNIDENTIFIED FILMING LOCATION (JUNE 7, 2021) (REUTERS VIA ZOOM) (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTOR AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, CHRIS PRATT, AND ACTOR EDWIN HODGE, SAYING: Chris Pratt: "And then you may have a little dirty piece where it's like an over. If it's a shot of Edwin but in the foreground you can see my shoulder like this. It goes like that and then you'd have a foam, a little foam creature there, so it kind of depends on the shot and the entire thing that is put into the sequence, there are various tricks of the trade and we used them all." Edwin Hodge: "Everything we had in the playbook." Chris Pratt: "Every play."
- Embargoed: 12th July 2021 22:38
- Keywords: Amazon Chris Pratt The Tomorrow War action blockbuster cinemas mobile phones streaming time travel
- Location: UNIDENTIFIED FILMING LOCATIONS
- City: UNIDENTIFIED FILMING LOCATIONS
- Country: USA
- Topics: Arts/Culture/Entertainment,Film,United States
- Reuters ID: LVA00AEJGDOB1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: As aliens plan to destroy the world, a ragtag team of earthlings travels to the future to stop them.
In "The Tomorrow War," Chris Pratt plays a young father who is drafted for the mission in a blockbuster originally meant for release in theaters by Paramount Pictures. Instead it was sold to Amazon for a rumored $200 million.
Pratt wants audiences to experience it in the best way possible at home, which means turning off their mobile phones.
"Give yourself that gift, honestly," Pratt told Reuters via Zoom. "When you're paying the money to go to the theater... you're buying a two-hour escape from your phone and I think you can give yourself that at home if you're a little bit disciplined."
As Pratt's character, Dan Forester, fights vicious man-eating aliens, he discovers he will die in a few years anyway.
"I've spent 20 years preparing to be an actor in this type of a movie but if I actually had to be a person in this story, I'm completely ill-equipped. I don't know what I'd do at all," Pratt said.
Pratt also played a new role, as executive producer of the production.
"It's definitely a learning process and to learn on a film of this proportion is daunting, but I found that I was surrounded by good people and that it was precisely the scale and the scope of this film that sold me on it."
"The Tomorrow War" begins streaming on Amazon on July 2.
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