Pratt has had some misses at the box office, too, such as “The Lego Movie: The Second Part” and the big-budget, sciene fiction film “Passengers.” His last film, “The Tomorrow War,” which streamed exclusively on Amazon Prime Video, had “the best opening for an Amazon original tentpole,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. Pratt has since starred in hit sequels for “Jurassic” and “Guardians” as well as other Marvel movies.
It opened to a then record $208 million before raking in $1.6 billion worldwide and is currently the seventh highest-grossing film ever. “Jurassic World,” which rebooted the Jurassic Park franchise with Pratt in the leading role, went on to become one of the biggest films ever. Pratt famously lost 60 pounds in six months for the role and has been in action hero shape ever since.Īnd that’s a good thing, since Pratt had to believably outrun dinosaurs the next year. “I thought, ‘Well, hell, he’s overweight, but if that means we have the world’s first overweight superhero, I’m okay with it,'” Gunn added. “I thought it was an insane idea to cast the fat guy from ‘Parks and Rec’ as the lead of our superhero movie,” Gunn told GQ in 2014. Pratt was overweight and mainly played comedic roles, and James Gunn - the director of “Guardians” - didn’t even want to see him audition. Then Pratt took off as cocky space avenger Peter “Star-Lord” Quill in Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy.” That film went on to make $773.3 million globally and changed the trajectory of Pratt’s career.īut that role almost didn’t happen.
The actor starred as the voice of Emmet Brickowski in “The Lego Movie,” an animated film set in the world of Legos, which went on to make $469 million worldwide. Pratt got his break in Hollywood in 2009 as lovable doofus Andy Dwyer on the NBC sitcom, “Parks and Recreation.” After playing supporting roles in films such as “Moneyball” and “Zero Dark Thirty,” Pratt had a massive year at the cineplex in 2014.