Paramount Pictures hands us the new trailer to the upcoming film COWBOYS & ALIENS starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde and Sam Rockwell. Jon Favreau is behind the camera after directing the last two ‘Iron Man’ films and the script is written by the guys who penned the Transformers films Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. This film ticks a stack of boxes for me, story, cast, director, writers and well aliens.. what more could you want?
I am waiting for Leith to chime in, his utter despise of the Transformers movies and with Orci and Kurtzman writing COWBOYS & ALIENS I’m looking forward to his comments…
1873. Arizona Territory. A stranger (Craig) with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. 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). It’s a town that lives in fear. But Absolution is about to experience fear it can scarcely comprehend as the desolate city is attacked by marauders from the sky. Screaming down with breathtaking velocity and blinding lights to abduct the helpless one by one, these monsters challenge everything the residents have ever known. Now, the stranger they rejected is their only hope for salvation. 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. 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. United against a common enemy, they will prepare for an epic showdown for survival.
COWBOYS & ALIENS hits Cinemas on the 11th August 2011.
