Vizyon tarihi: 16 Eylül 2011

Yönetmen: Jon Favreau
Oyuncular: Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig, Olivia Wilde...

Orijinal adı: Cowboys & Aliens
uzun metrajlı film ABD . Tür: Bilimkurgu , Western , Aksiyon , Macera
Süre: 117 dk Yapım yılı: 2011
Dağıtımcı: UIP Türkiye

Özet: Yıllardan 1873, yer Arizona. Geçmişini hiç hatırlamayan bir yabancı (Craig) kendisini Absolution isimli çöl kasabasında bulur. Geçmişine dair tek ipucu, bileğindeki gizemli bir kelepçedir. Kısa süre içerisinde kasabalıların yabancıları hoş karşılamadığını ve kasaba sokaklarında, demir yumruklu Albay Dolarhyde'ın (Ford) emri olmadan kimsenin hareket etmediğini keşfeder.

Fakat ıssız Absolution, gökyüzünden gelen istilacılar tarafından saldırıya uğradığında daha önce hiç bilmediği bir korkuyu yaşayacaktır. Nefes kesen bir hızla gökyüzünden gürültü ve kör edici ışıklarla gelen bu canavarlar, kasabayı allak bulak ederler. Absolution halkının reddettikleri yabancı, artık kurtuluşları için tek umutlarıdır?

Gişede iyi iş yapan filmlerle bilinen sinemacı Jon Favreau, klasik Western'in uzaylı istilası filmleriyle birleştiren, Daniel Craig ve Harrison Ford?lu Cowboys & Aliens'ın yönetmenliğini üstleniyor. Filmin senaryosu ise ?Star Trek? in (Uzay Yolu) senaristleri Alex Kurtzman ve Roberto Orci ile Damon Lindelof?a ait?

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Cowboys & Aliens is a 2011 American science fiction Western film directed by Jon Favreau and starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, and Olivia Wilde. The film is based on the 2006 graphic novel of the same name created by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg. The main plot revolves around an amnesiac outlaw (Craig), a wealthy cattleman (Ford), and a mysterious traveler (Wilde) who must ally to save a group of townspeople abducted by aliens. The screenplay was written by Damon Lindelof, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Mark Fergus, and Hawk Ostby, based on a story by the latter two along with Steve Oedekerk. The film was produced by Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Kurtzman, Lindelof, Orci, and Rosenberg, with Steven Spielberg serving as executive producer.

The project began development in 1997, when Universal Pictures and DreamWorks bought film rights to a concept pitched by Rosenberg, former president at Malibu Comics, which he described as a graphic novel in development. After the graphic novel was published in 2006, development on the film was begun again, and Favreau signed on as director in September 2009. On a budget of $163 million, filming for Cowboys & Aliens began in June 2010, in New Mexico and California. Despite pressures to release the film in 3-D, Favreau chose to film traditionally and in anamorphic format to further a "classic movie feel". Measures were taken to maintain a serious Western element despite the film's "inherently comic" title and premise. The film's aliens were designed to be "cool and captivating", with some details, such as a fungus that grows on their wounds, created to depict the creatures as frontiersmen facing adversity in an unfamiliar place.

Cowboys & Aliens premiered at the San Diego Comic-Con International on July 23, 2011. It was released in the United States and Canada on July 29, 2011. A financial disappointment, the film has grossed an estimated $162.8 million worldwide as of September 2011. The film has received mixed reviews, with critics generally praising its acting but criticizing its blend of the Western and science fiction genres.