“This is a very original concept,” Ford continued, delving into some of the standard misconceptions people have about the film, based on the title alone.“It was an ambition of the writers and Jon from the very beginning to have a textured, layered experience for the audience. “Cowboys & Aliens” is kind of a good joke, but you
sit down, the lights go out and you gotta get way past that and start getting into something else, because that’s some poor version of “Men in Black.” You have to attend to both the myth of the West
and the reality of the West, you have to talk about relationships, because this is about going and getting
back our kin, getting back our people who have been snatched away. And what does that mean to a guy who treats his kid like shit anyway? Does it mean that he recognizes that this is unfinished business, that this is bad
business and that he’s got another chance at it?”
See Tailor
Opens: July 29
Production companies: Universal Pictures/DreamWorks Pictures/Reliance Entertainment present in association with Relativity Media an Imagine Entertainment / K/O Paper Products / Fairview Entertainment / Platinum Studios production
Casting: Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Keith Carradine, Sam Rockwell, Paul Dano, Ana de la Reguera,Adam Beach, Clancy Brown, Noah Ringer
Director: Jon Favreau
Screenwriters: Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Damon Lindelof, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby
Screen story by: Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Steve Oedekerk
Based on the comic book by: Scott Mitchell Rosenberg
Producers: Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Alex Kurtzman, Robert Orci, Scott Mitchell Rosenberg
Executive producers: Steven Spielberg, Jon Favreau, Denis L. Stewart, Bobby Cohen, Randy Greenberg, Ryan Kavanaugh
Director of photography: Matthew Libatique
Production designer: Scott Chambliss
Visual effects supervisor: Roger Guyett
Special makeup/animatronics: Shane Mahan
Music: Harry Gregson-Williams
Costume designer: Mary Zophres
Editors: Dan Lebental, Jim May