Cowboys & Aliens

Based On the book by Andrew Foley

Cowboys & Aliens is a 2011 American space Western action thriller film directed by Jon Favreau and starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Adam Beach, Paul Dano, and Noah Ringer. The film is based on the 2006 Platinum Studios graphic novel of the same name created by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg. Set in the Southwestern United States in a retro-futuristic version of the 1870s, the film follows an amnesiac outlaw (Craig), a wealthy powerful cattleman (Ford) and a mysterious woman (Wilde) who must ally to save a group of townspeople who have been abducted by aliens. The screenplay was written by Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Damon Lindelof, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, based on a screen story by the latter two along with Steve Oedekerk.

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Release date:

2011

Director:

Jon Favreau

Cast:

Daniel Craig, Abigail Spencer, Matthew Taylor, Clancy Brown, Paul Dano

Genre:

Thriller, Science Fiction, Western, Action, Alien invasion

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Year page:

2011 in adaptations