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If you haven’t heard about COWBOYS & ALIENS yet, you’re obviously living under a rock. IRON MAN and IRON MAN 2 director Jon Favreau is combining the western genre with sci-fi, and the results are looking pretty cool. Today we’ve got yet another trailer to show ya. The film stars Daniel Craig (former and hopefully once again James Bond), Harrison Ford (his first Western since THE FRISCO KID), Olivia Wilde (TRON: LEGACY, and my future wife), Sam Rockwell (CONVICTION), Adam Beach (BIG LOVE), Keith Carradine (DAMAGES), Paul Dano (KNIGHT AND DAY), Clancy Brown (the new A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET), Noah Ringer (THE LAST AIRBENDER), and Walter Goggins (THE SHIELD). The film is adapted from the comic book by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby (both responsible for IRON MAN), with a screenplay by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, along with LOST‘s Damon Lindelof. The new trailer shows even more effects shots, and definitely moves at a fast pace. Check it out below, and tell us your thoughts in the comments.
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Story:
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.
COWBOYS & ALIENS opens July 29, 2011
Born and raised in Dallas, Mark has been a movie critic since 1994, with reviews featured in print, radio and National TV. In 2001 he started the Entertainment section of the Herorealm website, where he contributed film reviews and celebrity interviews until 2004. After three years of service there, he started Bigfanboy.com, which has become one of the Dallas film community's leading information websites. Bigfanboy hosts several movie screenings in the Texas area, and works closely with film and TV studios and promotional partners to host exciting events and contests. The site also features a variety of rare celebrity and filmmaker interviews, and Bigfanboy.com regularly covers the film festival circuit as well. In addition to Hollywood reporting, Mark has worked for many years as an advertising and sci-fi/comic book artist. Clients have included Lucasfilm Ltd., Topps Trading Cards, The Dallas Mavericks and The Dallas Stars. From 2002 until 2015 he managed the Dallas Comic Con, Sci-Fi Expo and Fan Days events in the DFW area. He currently catalogs rare comic books and movie memorabilia for Heritage Auctions, and runs the Dallas Comic Show conventions, but remains an avid moviegoer and cinema buff. 
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