Director John Favreau, with an impressive career in blockbusters, directs the movie-event of the summer 2011, which combines classic western genre with science fiction in a manner entirely original: Cowboys & Aliens. Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford are the protagonists of the film, led by a team of top filmmakers: Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.Cowboys & Aliens is an action thriller that will take you through the Wild West, where a lone cowboy leads a revolt against the terror coming from another universe.
1873, Arizona. An stranger (Craig) who has lost his memory and does not remember anything about his past come in his wanderings, the Absolution, a town in the desert. The only clue to his past is a cuff that is connected to a hand. We quickly discover that the inhabitants of Absolution are very hostile to any stranger and that no one makes any move without orders colonel feared Dolarhyde (Ford). It is a city that takes their existence in fear.
But Absolution is about to live a fear that will not understand it as the day when the city will be attacked by predators comeing from the space. Moving fast and throwing beams of blinding lights, the invaders began to kidnap people one by one. It will be the most difficult conflict that the city has ever lived.
It seems that the only hope of salvation is the stranger that first rejected it all. As the gunmen begin to remember who it is and where he walked so far, he realizes he has a secret that may save the city and to be the only chance to fight alien monsters. With mysterious Ella (Olivia Wilde), the he create an action group.
Cowboys & Aliens scenario belongs to the team that created Star Trek, Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci and Damon Lindelof (Lost series) and is based on the graphic novel published by Platinum Studios and created by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg. Cowboys & Aliens is produced by Grazer, Howard Rosenberg, Kurtzman and Orci and executive producer is Denis L., Stewart Spielberg.
Studio: Universal Pictures
Cast: Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde
Director: Jon Favreau
Writer: Alex Kurtzman
Release: July 29, 2011
