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Cowboys & Aliens
A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of mysterious beauty Ella and the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde, he finds himself leading an unlikely posse of cowboys, outlaws, and Apache warriors against a common enemy from beyond this world in an epic showdown for survival.
2011 · Directed by Jon Favreau · 119 min · Action · Science Fiction · Thriller · Western · 11 frames
Tagline
First Contact. Last Stand.
Crew
- Screenplay: Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Damon Lindelof, Mark Fergus
- Cinematography: Matthew Libatique
- Edited by: Dan Lebental, Jim May
- Music: Harry Gregson-Williams
- Production design: Scott Chambliss
- Produced by: Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci
Cast
- Daniel Craig as Jake Lonergan
- Harrison Ford as Woodrow Dolarhyde
- Olivia Wilde as Ella Swenson
- Sam Rockwell as Doc
- Adam Beach as Nat Colorado
- Paul Dano as Percy Dolarhyde
- Noah Ringer as Emmet Taggart
- Keith Carradine as Sheriff John Taggart
- Clancy Brown as Meacham
- Walton Goggins as Hunt
Production
- Country: United States of America, India
- Language: English
- Studios: DreamWorks Pictures, Universal Pictures, Reliance Entertainment, Relativity Media
- Budget: $163,000,000
- Box office: $174,822,325
- Themes: spacecraft, sheriff, robbery, escape, arizona, laser, apache nation, native american, based on comic, alien
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