follow-up to Iron Man 2, the genre-mashing action movie Cowboys and Aliens, has one of those titles that instantly sparks the imagination. For many adults, the title will likely evoke fond memories of playing the classic — though now very non-PC — kids game "Cowboys and Indians." Whether screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, who wrote the Cowboys and Aliens movie script with Damon Lindelof, ever played the game is unclear, but they recently told MTV that the title alone was enough to get them interested in writing the movie."I heard the title Cowboys and Aliens, and to me, that was like chocolate and peanut butter. I should have thought of that," Orci said. Added Kurtzman, "Literally, without knowing anything about it, just on the title, we thought that sounds like a lot of fun."
Orci said that they worked hard to find a balance between the western and sci-fi elements of the movie.
You're going to think you're watching a western for a half hour. 'Am I watching a western?' And then all of the sudden, in the middle of what could be a great western movie, aliens are going to land. And the western is going to go, 'What just happened?' And then they're going to go, 'Well, we're going to explain it to you.' They're going to have to work it out. So I think if we do our jobs right, it really will be half western and half sci-fi that meets in the right place, because they have things in common.
Based on the Platinum Comics graphic novel created by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, Cowboys and Aliens features an all-star cast that includes Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Walton Goggins, Noah Ringer, Paul Dano, Keith Carradine and Abigail Spencer.
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