Cowboys and Aliens - The man with the six gun

Daniel Craig may not really look like a James Bond, but he certainly looks the part as a cowboy in these stills from the forthcoming, Cowboys and Aliens.

And old Indy looks fine too.

1873. Arizona Territory. A stranger with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. What he discovers is that the people of Absolution don’t welcome strangers, and nobody makes a move on its streets unless ordered to do so by the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde. It’s a town that lives in fear.
But Absolution is about to experience fear it can scarcely comprehend as the desolate city is attacked by marauders from the sky. Screaming down with breathtaking velocity and blinding lights to abduct the helpless one by one, these monsters challenge everything the residents have ever known.
Now, the stranger they rejected is their only hope for salvation. As this gunslinger slowly starts to remember who he is and where he’s been, he realizes he holds a secret that could give the town a fighting chance against the alien force. With the help of the elusive traveler Ella, he pulls together a posse comprised of former opponents – townsfolk, Dolarhyde and his boys, outlaws and Apache warriors – all in danger of annihilation. United against a common enemy, they will prepare for an epic showdown for survival.
Genre: Action Thriller
Cast: Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Adam Beach, Paul Dano, Noah Ringer
Directed by: Jon Favreau
Screenplay by: Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman & Damon Lindelof
Based on Platinum Studios’ Comic Book Created by: Scott Mitchell Rosenberg
Produced by: Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Scott Mitchell Rosenberg
Executive Producers: Steven Spielberg, Jon Favreau, Denis L. Stewart, Bobby Cohen, Ryan Kavanaugh

Cowboys and Aliens teaser trailer released

James Bond goes Old West

Cowboys and Aliens teaser poster revealed

The film stars the primordial James Bond Daniel Craig as Jake Lonergan, a cowboy with a hazy recollection of his past, or how he got foreign technology bolted to his body.  He travels to a town called Absolution where he encounters a group of people living in fear of Colonel Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford), completely unaware that something is rapidly descending from the sky to exterminate them.  From there you can pretty much figure out where this movie's going; Lonergan must come to terms with his fading memories, rally the town, and band together with his former enemies to take on a greater threat. 

Cowboys and Aliens

Harrison Ford has now been confirmed to star alongside Daniel Craig in Speilberg's SF Western, Cowboys and Aliens - looking forward to this one. Part of this movie will be shot in the UK and I'm begging my agent to get me on it - I'll even play a tumbleweed if it means I get to strut up and down a western set.

Indiana Jones and James Bond will be fighting aliens together next summer. Harrison Ford is joining already announced star Daniel Craig for Cowboys and Aliens, which will be directed by Jon Favreau and produced by Speilberg.

The movie, which given Speilberg's involvement will the most high profile western in years, takes place in the Wild West, but not the one we’re used to seeing on screen. When space aliens invade Arizona, it’s up to the cowboys and the Apache tribe to team up and save the planet from enslavement.