Variety reports that DreamWorks and Universal Pictures will team up to turn Platinum Studios’ Cowboys & Aliens into a live-action film.
The script will be written by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby (Iron Man, Children of Men). Imagine partners Brian Grazer and Ron Howard will produce the film, along with Platinum’s Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, and Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (Star Trek XI).
Released by Platinum late last year, Cowboys & Aliens, as the title suggests, blends elements of the Western and science fiction genres. In 19th-century Arizona, a fight between cowboys and Apaches is interrupted by the crash landing of an alien spacecraft. Said aliens plan to conquer the Old West, but the cowboys and Apaches unite to fight off the invaders.
July 1st, 2007 at 5:55 pm
The concept is simply great. If they can make it work, it’ll be an awesome movie.