PRESS RELEASE
Opens July 29, 2011. Universal Studios. Genre: Action, Thriller. Official website: http://www.cowboysandaliensmovie.com/.
1875. New Mexico Territory. A stranger (Craig) 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 (Ford). 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 (Olivia Wilde), 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 survivial.
TRAILER
ABOVE THE LINE
Stars: Harrison Ford, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Ford
Daniel Craig, http://www.dedicatedtodaniel.com/
Olivia Wilde, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_Wilde
Producers: Ron Howard, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000165/
Brian Grazer, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004976/
Executive Producer: Steven Spielberg, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Spielberg
Daniel Craig, http://www.dedicatedtodaniel.com/
Olivia Wilde, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_Wilde
Producers: Ron Howard, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000165/
Brian Grazer, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004976/
Executive Producer: Steven Spielberg, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Spielberg
Director: John Favreau, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Favreau
Writers: Alex Kurtzman, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kurtzman
Roberto Orci, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Orci
Writers: Alex Kurtzman, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kurtzman
Roberto Orci, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Orci
Damon Lindelof, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damon_Lindelof
BUZZ
So, the first trailer for Jon Favreau’s COWBOYS AND ALIENS finally premiered. And it…looks…AWESOME. If you’re a die hard sci-fi geek like me, you’ve already seen the killer poster with Daniel Craig sporting his alien wrist gizmo and doing the Iron Man shrug. That poster sets the tone for the trailer. After a blur of Bond-style fist cuffs we find Craig in a small town getting a drink where we learn that he is wanted for, “Arson, assault, mayhem, and hijacking.” You know a guy’s hard-core when he’s wanted for “mayhem”.
Anyway, he ends up in jail and we get our first glimpse of Harrison Ford as the devious Col. Woodrow Dolarhyde. It’s not often when we get to see Ford play the villain, but always a treat. When he grunts his lines with that smirk it’s almost enough to send shivers of joy down one’s spine. Then “they” show up. What are they? “Is it demons?” One boys asks. Nope. Aliens.
So the final verdict? Epic. Rather than taking the concept and turning it into a comedy, or even lighthearted action flick, it seems like the folks behind this are actually going for a hard core action film. For the time being, it looks awesome. I mean, what’s not to like? It’s Cowboys and Aliens.
http://www.9e3k.com/scifi/trailer-review-cowboys-and-aliens/
So, the first trailer for Jon Favreau’s COWBOYS AND ALIENS finally premiered. And it…looks…AWESOME. If you’re a die hard sci-fi geek like me, you’ve already seen the killer poster with Daniel Craig sporting his alien wrist gizmo and doing the Iron Man shrug. That poster sets the tone for the trailer. After a blur of Bond-style fist cuffs we find Craig in a small town getting a drink where we learn that he is wanted for, “Arson, assault, mayhem, and hijacking.” You know a guy’s hard-core when he’s wanted for “mayhem”.
Anyway, he ends up in jail and we get our first glimpse of Harrison Ford as the devious Col. Woodrow Dolarhyde. It’s not often when we get to see Ford play the villain, but always a treat. When he grunts his lines with that smirk it’s almost enough to send shivers of joy down one’s spine. Then “they” show up. What are they? “Is it demons?” One boys asks. Nope. Aliens.
So the final verdict? Epic. Rather than taking the concept and turning it into a comedy, or even lighthearted action flick, it seems like the folks behind this are actually going for a hard core action film. For the time being, it looks awesome. I mean, what’s not to like? It’s Cowboys and Aliens.
http://www.9e3k.com/scifi/trailer-review-cowboys-and-aliens/
INFORAMA COMMENT
The latest project of Brian Glaser and Ron Howard is Cowboys and Aliens. The title is certainly something that grabs your attention. And Harrison Ford is still a major draw to any film fan. It is always a pleasure to watch someone like Ford play his role like a great violinist brings life to a Stradivarius.
So what about Cowboys and Aliens? At its core, this sounds like a sci-fi David vs. Goliath. Primitive humans on horseback battle aliens flying around in nifty spacecraft armed with futuristic weapons. How can the aliens possibly lose? Likewise, how can the humans possibly win? Daniel Craig and his Dick Tracy watch appear to be the Deus Ex Machina needed to save humanity. And since humanity has survived to the twenty first century one can conclude that the strategy must have worked in the eighteen seventy something or other.
The trailers for this film are clever. We see space craft, but no aliens. Are the critters flying around blasting cacti in the dessert one eyed, tentacled beasts or kissing cousins of Daniel Craig furiously engaged in a space age Hatfield vs. McCoy feud?
Even B movies now produce a wide variety of special effects. But if Ron Howard and Brian Glaser expect to dazzle with just pyrotechnics and CGI this film could be a major disappointment. The disparity between reality and imagination may be too wide a gap for this attempt at welding a Western to a malevolent E.T. Ron Howard states, "There's a conversation now with fans and it starts a long time before the movie is even finished. The frightening thing for me is if somehow the wrong story gets out there and your film is misunderstood in some way... you need to shape the message, really. "
Here's the thing: we always hope for a truly engrossing film. Whether it is action, drama, historical, biographical, musical, western or sci-fi, our appetite for original and quality films is insatiable. Perhaps we, society, are collectively looking for escape. And considering the state of the world affairs as of late, that escape is desperately needed.
The latest project of Brian Glaser and Ron Howard is Cowboys and Aliens. The title is certainly something that grabs your attention. And Harrison Ford is still a major draw to any film fan. It is always a pleasure to watch someone like Ford play his role like a great violinist brings life to a Stradivarius.
One of the oldest staples of filmdom is the Oater, commonly called a Western. And the menacing alien visitor movies also have been in the yearly repertoire of films. But the amalgamation of Western and other world aliens leaves an uncertain taste.
Is the film audience being treated or scammed into watching the film? The odd combination causes a sense of bewilderment. Imagine someone touting a film with an unlikely title of Aliens vs. Predator, The Musical, replete with a touching duet between these notorious film villains on a mound of dismembered and dying humans. The taste just isn't right.
So what about Cowboys and Aliens? At its core, this sounds like a sci-fi David vs. Goliath. Primitive humans on horseback battle aliens flying around in nifty spacecraft armed with futuristic weapons. How can the aliens possibly lose? Likewise, how can the humans possibly win? Daniel Craig and his Dick Tracy watch appear to be the Deus Ex Machina needed to save humanity. And since humanity has survived to the twenty first century one can conclude that the strategy must have worked in the eighteen seventy something or other.
The trailers for this film are clever. We see space craft, but no aliens. Are the critters flying around blasting cacti in the dessert one eyed, tentacled beasts or kissing cousins of Daniel Craig furiously engaged in a space age Hatfield vs. McCoy feud?
Even B movies now produce a wide variety of special effects. But if Ron Howard and Brian Glaser expect to dazzle with just pyrotechnics and CGI this film could be a major disappointment. The disparity between reality and imagination may be too wide a gap for this attempt at welding a Western to a malevolent E.T. Ron Howard states, "There's a conversation now with fans and it starts a long time before the movie is even finished. The frightening thing for me is if somehow the wrong story gets out there and your film is misunderstood in some way... you need to shape the message, really. "
I hope this film will succeed and not be a case where an attempt at originality is confused with the bizarre. Will this movie ape those pathetically strange fashion shows where an absolutely tasteless and bizarre arrangement of colorful cloth is presented as Haute Couture? Can this be the next Close Encounters of the Third Kind? Or will everyone be asking where are the emperor's clothes? I guess we'll all have to plunk down $10 bucks to find out.
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