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Cowboys and Aliens
Other | Wednesday 3rd August 2011 | Osh
Before the Indians, came the aliens. Cue dusty battles on horseback and a lot of explosions
Originally a graphic novel penned in 1997 by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, Cowboys and Aliens is set in Arizona back in 1875, and you guessed it - it’s a western sci-fi action film pitching stetson-wearing, moustached rednecks against their ancient nemeses...space invaders? After waking up in the desert with no memory of his past apart from a mysterious shackle around one wrist, the ‘stranger’ Jake Lonergan, played by Daniel Craig, stumbles across the not-so-coincidentally named desert town of Absolution. He soon finds out that strangers are not welcome and that the town cower under the iron-fisted rule of Colonel Dolarhyde; the townsfolk live in fear, but it is nothing compared to the terror they are about to be subjected to. They discover before long that the stranger they rejected is their only salvation, when a spaceship arrives to take over the world one pair of chaps at a time. A rugged Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford are all that stand in their way, but with a budget of $163 million, you can be sure this film will have a couple of explosions up its sleeve. The flick is set to be a box office smash; with a not-so-young but still rather sexy Indiana Jones teaming up with James Bond, are you surprised?
