Craig and Ford team up in Cowboys & Aliens

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I am but only in certain circumstances. :cwink:

Anyway about this film, anyone got any predictions on how much it might open to?

Edit* As for which is the alien, my guess is Craig.
 
From the impression I got, Craig's character was beamed into space by the aliens and then put back on earth and couldn't remember who he is. I don't think he is an alien. I feel something like that would be cheesy in a bad way and just too cliche.

btw Is this based on a comic book?
 
If anybody is an alien it is Olivia Wilde what with her not freaking out during an invasion and later walking around naked in front of a group of lonely men with the casualness of Sunday morning after church and before a barn raisin'. ;)

But yeah Craig is the hero--the man with no name (or at least an unimportant one). Besides, if he was an alien why would he have that history that makes Harrison Ford want to kill him?

BTW now that Vaughn's X-trailer hit, between this and that the summer popcorn flicks all of a sudden look far more promising. At least I hope so.
 
Jon Favreau said that the Aliens' objective is to reproduce. And then there's Olivia Wilde naked in front of the Cowboys and Indians. I think it's her.
 
btw Is this based on a comic book?
Yes and no. There is a Graphic Novel called Cowboys & Aliens, but it tells a completelly different story about a gunslinger called Zeke Taylor, who witnesses a spaceship crash-landing on the desert near Silver City. The Aliens inside are intergalactic conquerers who, upon discovering that Earth is not in their registers, decide to take over it, forcing Taylor and his partner, Verity, to rally together the Apache warriors and the towspeople of Silver City to fight the invaders.

Favreau only took the basic idea (An Alien invasion... IN THE OLD WEST!) and the idea that the main character has a alien weapon (A Microwave pistol in the Novel and a energy gauntlet in the movie). Which is actually pretty good, because the Novel is very cheesy.

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so let me see if i get this right. they took the name of the comics and some basic ideas,but everything is changed?so how come noone complains? the comics is not popular or what?

since its not a direct adaptation why did they use the title? the title is very funny.
 
No one really liked the Graphic Novel. There's a line between cheesy awesome and cheesy cheesy, and cowboys using flying horses to drop atomic-arrows at crocodile-like Aliens crosses it.
 
So basically, it's Bizarro Catwoman.

A movie that bastardizes the source material but (probably) manages to make it better.
 
No one really liked the Graphic Novel. There's a line between cheesy awesome and cheesy cheesy, and cowboys using flying horses to drop atomic-arrows at crocodile-like Aliens crosses it.
because noone liked its right to change it?:yay:

i will watch this movie because it is cheesy. its a movie about cowboys and aliens with a serious tone. f..... yeah :woot:
 
Well it doesn't says in the contract that when a studio bought a film rights for a comic book or a book that they have to stick to it 100%, it's two different media so if they want to change something for the movie then they have the right.
 
I have no problem with movies based on comics having a different plot. It's the same as having an elseworld's issue or something, but on the big screen. Comics are a medium that allow for a lot of creativity and changes from the source material.
 
I have no problem with movies based on comics having a different plot. It's the same as having an elseworld's issue or something, but on the big screen. Comics are a medium that allow for a lot of creativity and changes from the source material.

Sacrilege! Comic books are the last sacred genre! They should never be tampered with!
:hehe:
 
The Graphic Novel's Plot synopsis:

1873. Arizona. Gunslingers Zeke Taylor and Verity Jones are hired to protect a caravan heading to Silver City, which is rumored to have a big silver mine, from the Apache Indians. The caravan is indeed attacked and Taylor and Verity are overpowered by the Indians led by the warrior Warhawk.

Zeke escapes and attempts to find help, but is overpowered by three Indians. As they're about to execute him, a Alien spaceship crash-lands nearby. Its tripulants, crocodile-like Alien conquerers, discover that Earth is not in their registers and decide to take over it, calling in reinforcements. The Indians attempt to make contact and are killed by the Aliens, who make their way to a fort, where they establish a headquarters. Zeke decides to scavenge the crashed spaceship and finds Microwave-emmiting pistol.

Zeke reunites with Verity and they make their way to Silver City alongside the surviving miners, but find the city deserted, save for a few people, led by the Mayor, who reveals that the mine is already empty and many left following this discovery. The group is attacked by a squad of Aliens in flying motorcycles, and Zeke is able to shoot some of them down with the pistol. Verity also finds a whip-like Alien weapons and starts using it. However, they are eventually outnumbered and chased to a gorge, where they are rescued by Warhawk and the Indians, who kill the Aliens with poison-tipped arrows.

The Cowboys and the Indians decide to help eachother to fend off the Aliens. The Indians find cillinders that, once added to their arrows, allow them to shoot miniature atomic bombs. Warhawk also finds a pair of goggles with X-Ray vision, telescopic vision, microscopic vision and infrared vision. He sees Verity bathing alongside some Indian women and falls in love.

The group is approached by the Alien General's shapeshifting female aid, who is tired of her race's ruthless ways and decides to aid the humans in defeating them. Zeke falls in love with her.

The heroes then divise a plan: A group led by the Mayor will fake a direct attack to the Aliens while a second group infiltrates Silver City, which is being used by the Aliens as a operations central, trough the empty silver mines and ambush the creatures, destroying their antemn and preventing them from calling reinforcements. However, they are betrayed by the Mayor, who warns the Aliens in hopes of his life being spared. The Alien General kills the Mayor and captures the heroes, who are prepared to be executed.

Suddenly, the Aliens are ambushed by the Indians, who infiltrate the fort with horses that are able to fly due to horseshoes created from the scraps of the flying motorcycles by the town's blacksmith. The Aliens are killed by the atomic arrows and Zeke confronts the General while Verity and Warhawk fight his second-in-command.

The General wounds Zeke's girlfriend before Zeke uses the pistol to melt some metal that falls on the General, making him so heavy that the floor beneath him cracks and he falls on a makeshift catapult built by the female Alien. She jamms a explosive on the General's chest and catapults him against the antemn, where he explodes, destroying the antemn and dying. The shockwave causes the church's bell to fall on the second-in-command, crushing him before he can kill Verity and Warhawk.

Zeke kisses the female Alien as she dies. Verity and Warhawk also kiss. Zeke discovers that there's a resistence of shapeshifting aliens that want to destroy the evil Aliens, and the his girlfriend was a part of them. Before dying, she radioed her friends and told them that the humans are a good addition to the resistence. Suddenly we see the shapeshifting Aliens on a space station on the Moon using Earth slang such as "Howdy".

THE END... OR IS IT?
 
Official? Cool poster either way...
 
so let me see if i get this right. they took the name of the comics and some basic ideas,but everything is changed?so how come noone complains? the comics is not popular or what?

since its not a direct adaptation why did they use the title? the title is very funny.

The graphic novel ****ing sucks.
 
Hmmm ... Interesting for sure. Not really sure what I think about it. I guess it's pretty cool, though.
 
so let me see if i get this right. they took the name of the comics and some basic ideas,but everything is changed?so how come noone complains? the comics is not popular or what?

since its not a direct adaptation why did they use the title? the title is very funny.

The title & general premise were the only things from the GN worth keeping.
 
I have no problem with movies based on comics having a different plot. It's the same as having an elseworld's issue or something, but on the big screen. Comics are a medium that allow for a lot of creativity and changes from the source material.
It's not really like an elsewords, because there is no 'official' film canon to deviate from that will maintain the status quo.
 
Haven't heard much from this film since the Super Bowl spot.
 
The news on this film has been pretty quiet. Hope things start to pick up, I'm really interested in seeing this and seeing how this does.
 
I went to see Battle: LA this weekend and there was a featurette on this before the movie. They didn't really give any plot details, but they showed a few new shots and had interviews with Favreau, Speilberg and Howard. So, that's something, I guess.
 
They will hit everyone with abusive tv promotion in June/July. Got a feeling.
 
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