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Haley Bennett lands starring role in Magnificent Seven

Haley Bennett has landed a potential career-making role as the female lead in MGM’s “The Magnificent Seven”.

The actress will join Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt in the film to be directed by Antoine Fuqua.

Set in a town that is taken over by a ruthless gold mining baron and his thugs, Bennet plays the widow of a man who was murdered. She hires a bounty hunter to get rid of the baron and gives the bounty hunter enough money to pay six gunmen to help him complete the task.

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