Grazer, Howard, Rosenberg, Kurtzman and Orci produce. The script for Cowboys & Aliens is by Star Trek's Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci and Damon Lindelof (television's Lost), based on Platinum Studios' graphic novel created by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg. United against a common enemy, they will prepare for an epic showdown for survival.

With the help of the elusive traveler Ella (Olivia Wilde), he pulls together a posse comprised of former opponents-townsfolk, Dolarhyde and his boys, outlaws and Apache warriors-all in danger of annihilation. As this gunslinger slowly starts to remember who he is and where he's been, he realizes he holds a secret that could give the town a fighting chance against the alien force. Now, the stranger they rejected is their only hope for salvation. Memorable westerns, though, stay in our minds not so much because of their shootouts as the characters and tone, and that’s the case whether the films are John Ford classics, dark. Screaming down with breathtaking velocity and blinding lights to abduct the helpless one by one, these monsters challenge everything the residents have ever known. Cowboys And Aliens an odd movie because it at once delivers exactly what you’d expect, yet feels somewhat disappointing based purely on the talent and track record of those involved. This form of Cowboys and Aliens must have satisfied the battalions of studio executives and producers who had to sign off on it, and why notit’s entirely predictable, made up of pieces of better movies. It's a town that lives in fear.īut Absolution is about to experience fear it can scarcely comprehend as the desolate city is attacked by marauders from the sky. What he discovers is that the people of Absolution don't welcome strangers, and nobody makes a move on its streets unless ordered to do so by the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde (Ford). The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. A stranger (Craig) with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution.

Joined by an arsenal of top moviemakers-Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci-he brings an all-new action thriller that will take audiences into the Old West, where a lone cowboy leads an uprising against a terror from beyond our world.ġ875. Blockbuster filmmaker Jon Favreau directs Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford in a film that crosses the classic Western with the alien-invasion movie in a blazingly original way: Cowboys & Aliens.

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