Cowboys & Aliens Aktuelles Chat DVD & Video Links Literatur Soundtrack Spiele Trailer moviefans Zur Startseite	Eine Verfilmung von "Cowboys & Aliens", aus dem Platinum Comic Macroverse, ist in Planung... Schon schön, wenn Cowboys und Indianer ihr Kriegsbeil begraben müssen, um ausserirdischen Invasoren Herr zu werden... ;-) Jon Favreau führt Regie bei "Cowboys & Aliens"... Daniel Craig (u.a. "James Bond 007: Casino Royale", "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider") spielt die Rolle von Zeke Jackson... Der Film soll am 29. Juli 2011 in die US-Kinos kommen... Cowboys & Aliens Aktuelles [07.02.2010] Wie CS! meldet, wurde der US-Kinostart auf den 29. Juli 2011 gelegt... [02.02.2010] Heat Vision meldet... Olivia Wilde is in negotiations to star opposite Daniel Craig in the sci-fi Western "Cowboys & Aliens," which Jon Favreau is directing for DreamWorks Studios. Wilde will play a character named Ella who joins up with mysterious gunslinger in an unlikely uprising against an alien invasion. Craig is playing the gunslinger, taking over the role from Robert Downey Jr., who dropped out in January. Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are producing and wrote the script with "Lost" co-creator Damon Lindelof. Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer are also producing along with Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, who created the graphic novel upon which the movie is based. [...] [14.01.2010] Collider meldet... [...] Robert Downey Jr. has dropped out of the adaptation of Scott Mitchell Rosenberg comic book series Cowboys & Aliens. But now we are hearing through sources that Daniel Craig is in negotiations to replace him in the lead role of Zeke Jackson. Obviously, this would be very cool since it would be his first collaboration with Jon Favreau, who is directing the film from a script by Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman (Star Trek), and Damon Lindelof (Lost). Let me stress: "In negotiations" means that Craig has not been cast in the role. What it means is that they’re trying to work out a deal for him to star, but sometimes things don’t work out. Maybe the schedule for Bond 23 moves up or he decides to do a different project. [...] [13.01.2010] 24 Frames meldet... Robert Downey Jr. won't ride into the wild West after all. The actor, who had been poised to reunite with "Iron Man" director Jon Favreau for the science-fiction western "Cowboys & Aliens," won't star in the film. The movie, sources say, will still move forward with Favreau. But Downey has fallen off the project, and studio DreamWorks is seeking a new hero to replace him. Production is tentatively set to begin this year for a planned release in summer 2011. [...] Downey was set to play the gunslinger Zeke Jackson, who leads the anti-alien revolt. But scheduling issues -- Downey's been one of the busier actors in Hollywood -- forced a re-think. The project would have marked a third potential franchise a resurgent Downey would have been involved with, after "Iron Man" and "Sherlock Holmes," which is expected to spawn a sequel. [...] [23.10.2009] MTV sprach kürzlich mit Jon Favreau... [...] "We've been discussing the idea of me directing it. I like the project, they like me," he said. "It's all about release dates and windows and availability." "When you're a director on these projects, it's a very director-heavy medium... moreso than any other genre i can think of, because the director has to be involved in the planning, the design, the shooting is painstaking ... and the editing room, with all the CGI it's like you're starting a whole new movie," he explained. "It's a two-year process to direct one of these films, and you have to land on that date, whatever that summer date might be." Favreau also shared his thoughts on why the project appealed ot him, and what approach he'll be taking to the cowboys-vs-aliens story that he'll be adapting. "I love the idea of a mash-up of genres. I love the western, which isn't something you don't often get the chance to do these days," he said. "If you're going to mash up genres, you have to do it right. The idea of a western mixed with an alien movie, all of a sudden it makes it a fresh concept... and that mixture seems to make it very appealing and marketable." The "Iron Man 2" director even offered up some comparisons for the tone of the film, invoking some of the best-known classic - and modern - takes on the genre. "You have to figure out what style of western is it: Is it 'Maverick'? Is it 'Wild Wild West'? Or is it 'Butch Cassidy'? ... Is it 'Deadwood'?" he ventured. "I think 'Butch Cassidy' feels like the right tone, because there's humor, but there are stakes." [02.09.2009] Im Heat Vision Blog steht zu lesen... Jon Favreau and Robert Downey Jr. are bringing their iron-clad collaboration to another comic-book property: "Cowboys & Aliens." Downey has been attached to the DreamWorks/Universal project since last summer, when "Iron Man" co-screenwriters Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby were working on the adaptation of the Platinum Studios Comics graphic novel written by Fred Van Lente and Andrew Foley. In the fall, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, who are executive producers on the project, took over scripting, along with "Lost" exec producer Damon Lindelof. Now Favreau has come on to make "Cowboys" his next directing gig. The sci-fi Western explores what would happen if the traditional Old West enemies -- cowboys and Native Americans -- found the prairie attacked by aliens in mid-1800s Arizona. Long in development, the "Aliens" project originally was set up at Universal and DreamWorks in 1997 with Steve Oedekerk writing and directing. It later moved to Columbia, with "Sahara" scribes Joshua Oppenheimer and Thomas Donnelly writing. The Favreau-Downey-Kurtzman-Orci-Lindelof nexus represents the current nucleus of geek-genre pop culture. Kurtzman and Orci recently delivered the sci-fi megahits "Star Trek" and "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," Lindelof maintains his control over the "Lost" mind screw, and Favreau and Downey will serve up another highly anticipated "Iron Man" saga next year. For DreamWorks, the property represents an essential tentpole to help elevate its newly independent status now that the studio's first round of financing is complete. DreamWorks included "Cowboys" among the 17 projects it bought from Paramount upon leaving last fall. As part of that exit arrangement, Paramount has an option to co-distribute the film with new DreamWorks distributor Disney, an opportunity it presumably will engage given Favreau's $585 million worldwide success on the Paramount-distributed "Iron Man." Imagine Entertainment principals Brian Grazer and Ron Howard -- the latter once a possibility to direct -- are producing with Platinum topper Scott Mitchell Rosenberg. Universal, where Imagine is housed, co-developed and is co-financing the project. As it ramps up production for the next few years' slates, DreamWorks likely would anchor its 2011 summer to "Cowboys." DreamWorks and Kurtzman and Orci also are developing the Platinum property "Atlantis Rising," another big-budget sci-fi hybrid, with director Len Wiseman and writer Joby Harold. [11.08.2009] SCI FI Wire meldet... Screenwriting duo Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (Star Trek) said they turned in their draft of Cowboys & Aliens on Aug. 5 and are now awaiting feedback on their screenplay adaptation of Fred Van Lente's graphic novel. "We literally handed it in yesterday," Kurtzman said in a group interview on Aug. 6 in Pasadena, Calif., where the duo were promoting their Fox TV show Fringe. "So ask us Monday." Damon Lindelof co-wrote the script with Orci and Kurtzman. Orci added that they've done the best they could, and now it is in producers' and actors' hands. "We'll find out, literally," Orci said during the interview. "We're waiting to hear from the principals. We try not to turn it in until we think it's ready. Obviously, there are always things you can improve." [...] [23.06.2009] SHH! sprach mit den Drehbuchautoren Roberto Orci und Alex Kurtzman... SHH!: [...] Is "Cowboys & Aliens" going to move forward soon? Kurtzman: We're in the middle of writing it right now. We're finishing a draft with Damon (Lindelof), so we hope to be done within the next couple of weeks and then we'll get a director on the movie and see where it goes from there. SHH!: Do you think Robert Downey is still going to be involved with it, playing Zeke? Kurtzman: Hopefully. Fingers crossed. We talked to him a while ago and we'd love him to do it, but he's the busiest man alive, so we're hoping the schedule is going to line up. SHH!: Are you guys looking at that as another possible franchise or just one movie at a time kind of thing? Kurtzman: If we're lucky, but we can only think of it as one movie at a time, because if we start thinking that way, it corrupts the whole movie. Orci: Bad luck. [...] [21.06.2009] Bei Collider.com gibt es ein Video-Interview mit den Drehbuchautoren Roberto Orci und Alex Kurtzman, u.a. über "Cowboys & Aliens"... [...] they say they’ve finished a draft and then sat down with Ron Howard and Steven Spielberg and they gave them a note and now they’re incorporating the not [...] [15.11.2008] THR.com meldet... With its separation from Paramount complete, DreamWorks is putting a handful of projects on its high-priority list. [...] DreamWorks communications exec Chip Sullivan declined to discuss specifics, but these projects are increasingly active: [...] "Cowboys and Aliens": The large-scale comic book adaptation is now being penned by writer-executive producers Kurtzman and Orci ("Transformers," "Star Trek"), who took on the gig from "Iron Man" co-writers Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby. Imagine is producing, and director-producer Ron Howard, who remains a long shot to lens the film, is developing the project for attached star Robert Downey Jr. [...] [16.06.2008] THR.com meldet... Robert Downey Jr. is in negotiations to star in DreamWorks/Universal's "Cowboys & Aliens," a pulpy mix of the sci-fi and Western genres that could serve as a potential 2010 tentpole. The deal would be Downey's first since propelling Marvel Studios' "Iron Man" to $500 million-plus in worldwide loot (and growing). He next will be seen in the comedy "Tropic Thunder" in August, followed by the drama "The Soloist" in November, both for DreamWorks. Imagine Entertainment partners Brian Grazer and Ron Howard are producing. Platinum Studios chairman and CEO Scott Mitchell Rosenberg also will produce, along with DreamWorks mainstays Steven Spielberg, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. Ervin Rustemagic and Rich Marincic will co-produce. "Cowboys & Aliens" derives from a graphic novel written by Fred Van Lente and Andrew Foley from an original idea by Rosenberg. The story centers on an Old West battle between the Apache and Western settlers, including a former Union Army gunslinger named Zeke Jackson (Downey), that is interrupted by a spaceship crashing into the prairie near Silver City, Ariz. The story draws a parallel between the American imperialist drive to conquer the "savage" Indians with its advanced technology and the aliens' assault on Earthlings, who must join together to survive the invaders' attack. The project has been in development at several studios during the past 10 years. Among the writers who have drafted versions of the adaptation are David Hayter ("X2: X-Men United"), Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer ("Sahara"), Jeffrey Boam ("Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"), Thompson Evans ("Wedlocked"), Chris Hauty ("Never Back Down") and Steve Oedekerk ("Evan Almighty"). The most recent draft by "Iron Man" and "Children of Men" writers Hawk Ostby and Mark Fergus clearly hit the right notes, as the project looks to gain its major players quickly. [...] [21.06.2007] Variety.com meldet... DreamWorks and Universal Pictures will join to turn the graphic novel "Cowboys & Aliens" into a live action feature. Imagine partners Brian Grazer and Ron Howard will produce along with Platinum Studios chairman-CEO Scott Mitchell Rosenberg and Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. Ervin Rustemagic and Rich Marincic co-produce. Script will be written by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby. The graphic novel mixes Western and science fiction genres. Set in 1800s Arizona, a skirmish between cowboys and Apaches is interrupted by the crash landing of a space ship. The alien commander plans to tame the Old West and enslave everyone, but the cowboys and Native Americans turn their six-guns against the alien invaders. Rosenberg, who ran Malibu Comics when "Men in Black" transferred from graphic novel to hit film, created the concept for "Cowboys & Aliens" and published the graphic novel in 2006. Several studios have been intrigued by the concept, but the deal was finally pulled together by DreamWorks production president Adam Goodman and U production prexy Donna Langley. The studios have teamed successfully in the past on such pics as "Gladiator" and the Imagine-produced "A Beautiful Mind." Kurtzman and Orci scripted the upcoming DreamWorks/Paramount summer film "Transformers." Fergus and Hawk Ostby's recent credits include "Children of Men" and "Iron Man." [15.11.2005] Insomniac Mania meldet... Cowboys and Aliens is in development for Platinum Studios and Columbia Pictures. Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer are currently writing a script. Based on the Top Cow comic, Cowboys and Indians must lay their differences aside as aliens threaten to invade Earth. Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, David Alper, Amy Baer, Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Gregory Noveck, Ervin Rustemagic and Steve Tisch are set to produce the feature. The project is set for a release date in 2006. [12.05.2004] HollywoodReporter.com meldet... Escape Artists and comic book powerhouse Platinum Studios are teaming up for some sci-fi escapism with the high-concept tentpole "Cowboys and Aliens" for Columbia Pictures. "Sahara" writers Joshua Oppenheimer and Thomas Donnelly have come on board to adapt the project, which is set within Platinum's comic book "macroverse" of more than 1,000 characters. Escape Artists' Jason Blumenthal, Todd Black, Steve Tisch and David Alper will produce in association with Platinum's Scott Rosenberg, Ervin Rustemagic and Gregor Noveck. Amy Baer will oversee for the studio. Created by Platinum Studios founder and chairman Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, "Cowboys and Aliens" is set in the Old West, where cowboys and Indians must put aside their differences to battle an alien invasion. [09.05.2000] C2F berichtet... [...] Another Platinum original concept is Cowboys and Aliens. The western sci-fi concept was created by Rosenberg for the big screen. "Cowboys and Aliens is progressing really nicely with a writer named Chris Hauty (Homeward Bound II)," Rosenberg told C2F. "We've gone back and forth with different scripts before. Now Universal, Dreamworks and us are all on the same page, no pun intended. It's incredibly active at the studios." Rosenberg is the producer on the movie with Noveck co-producing. Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald, both of whom worked on Men In Black with Rosenberg and more recently on Gladiator, are also producing. [...] [20.05.1997] PlatinumStudios.com berichtet... Universal and DreamWorks circled the wagons to buy "Cowboys & Aliens," a double-genre pitch that will become the next writing and directing assignment for Steve Oedekerk, who handled that double duty on "Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls" and on Touchstone's upcoming comedy "Nothing To Lose." The rights to the pitch cost $500,000 against $1.5 million, and Oedekerk will get a low seven-figure sum to write the script, and around $3.5 million to direct and produce, sources said. The total deal's potentially worth $7 million if the film gets made. That's comparable with the upfront paydays Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich received for "Independence Day." Of course, Devlin and Emmerich sold a spec script and got and a guaranteed greenlight and start date from Fox. Oedekerk's package was repped by William Morris agents Alan Gasmer and Rob Carlson. The concept is a mix of science-fiction and Western: A space ship crashes in the Old West. Both the cowboys and Indians get hold of alien technology, weapons and hardware, and begin using it on each other. Finally, they're forced to work together to battle the aliens who come to retrieve the ship. "I want to do any movie I'm dying to see, and this is the ultimate movie I'd want to see," said Oedekerk, who'll start writing as soon as he completes the sequel to "The Nutty Professor" for Universal and Imagine. Platinum Studios co-owner Scott Mitchell Rosenberg cooked up the concept as a follow-up to "Men in Black," a comic created by Lowell Cunningham at Malibu Comics. Rosenberg, who was Malibu founder/prexy at the time, developed the comic concept and set up "Men in Black" at Amblin with Walter Parkes, Laurie MacDonald and Steven Spielberg, who all have segued to DreamWorks. Rosenberg feels "Cowboys & Aliens" has the same "Black" humor and action potential. [...] Cowboys & Aliens DVD & Video Demnächst mehr... 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