Slashfilm and other sites are reporting that the graphic novel, Cowboys & Aliens will be hitting the big screen and that Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig and Olivia Wilde will be the star actors. The movie is set to be released in July 2011.
According to IMDB, the plot is based in Silver City, Arizona, where “Apache Indians and Western settlers must lay their differences aside when an alien spaceship crash lands in their city.” The Cowboy & Aliens blog says that the film will be directed by Jon Favreau and written by Kurtzman & Orci (“Star Trek”) and Damon Lindelof (“Lost”). Produced by Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and Scott Mitchell Rosenberg.