cowboys and aliens

Cowboys & Aliens is a 2011 American science fiction Western film starring Daniel Craig,Harrison Ford, and Olivia Wilde. The film, directed by Jon Favreau, is based on the 2006 graphic novel of the same name created by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg. Cowboys & Aliens was released in the United States and Canada on July 29, 2011.

Cast

The cast includes:

Daniel Craig as Jake Lonergan, a wanted outlaw with amnesia

Harrison Ford as Colonel Woodrow Dolarhyde, a powerful and rich cattleman who controls the town of Absolution

Olivia Wilde as Ella Swenson, a mysterious traveler

Sam Rockwell as Doc, a saloon owner

Paul Dano as Percy Dolarhyde, Woodrow's trouble-making son

Clancy Brown as Meacham, a kind, plain-spoken preacher

Keith Carradine as Sheriff John Taggart

Noah Ringer as Emmett Taggart, John Taggart's grandson

Adam Beach as Nat Colorado, Colonel Dolarhyde's right-hand man

Abigail Spencer as Alice, Jake's lost love

Ana de la Reguera as María, Doc's wife

Walton Goggins as Hunt, a bandit

Julio César Cedillo as Bronc, a bandit

David O'Hara as Pat Dolan, Lonergan's former gang-member

Raoul Trujillo as Chiricahua Apache chief, Black Knife

Brendan Wayne as Deputy Lyle

Writing
In the film's period as a developing project under several studios, different versions of the screenplay were drafted by numerous screenwriters, beginning with Oedekerk. Other screenwriters involved included David Hayter, Thomas Dean Donnelly, Joshua Oppenheimer, Jeffrey Boam, Thompson Evans, and Chris Hauty. When Universal and DreamWorks re-partnered in 2007, they had hired Hawk Ostby and Mark Fergus.[8] In 2009, Ostby and Fergus were replaced by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, and Damon Lindelof. Kurtzman and Orci watched and analyzed American Western films including The Searchers. Orci said, "The first draft was very kind of jokey and broad and then it went very serious. You kind of swing back and forth between the two extremes and the tone until you find the exact right point where a Western and a sci-fi movie can really shake hands without it seeming unnatural.Imagine you're watching Unforgiven and then Aliens land," Orci explained.

Orci also said, "The comic has the themes of enemies uniting to fight a common enemy and has the setting of that specific time period, so we kept the inspiration from all of that. In terms of the specifics of the story and who these characters are, we wanted the audience to be surprised and to not feel like they've already seen everything if they were fans of the comic. So, while the themes and the setting and many of the elements are a great inspiration, the story is completely adapted and translated for live action." The aliens were loosely based on the Anunnaki gods of Zecharia Sitchin's interpretation of the Babylonian religion, who have a distinct interest in gold