Probably the most exciting affair we saw at Comic - Con today was a surprise clod of footage from Jon Favreau ’s scifi western , Cowboys and Aliens . It was grainy and action - pack , plus there was a showdown between Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig .
Favreau , whose previous films were Iron Man and Iron Man 2 , said they ’ve only been shooting for a month , but he require to prep some great footage for Comic - Con . Holy crap did he deliver . He called the picture a “ by the book Western , ” in the vein of John Ford , which will unquestionably be in 2D. ( Why no 3-D ? He just does n’t think you could shoot a Western in digital . ) And he said his scifi influences admit nigh Encounters of the Third Kind , Alien , and Predator . “ We wanted it to look like practical effect , with minimal CGI , ” he added . And it really worked .
We saw several interlinked scene that introduce our chief type .
The first clip open with Zeke Johnson ( Daniel Craig ) riding his gymnastic horse into a tiny old west town , accompany by a scruffy wiener . He looks leery , and his aspect is covered in grime . Seeing nobody around , he slip into a house and begins to scavenge up . Immediately , we notice that he has a bulky , steampunk - looking watch bracelet on one arm ; then he draw aside his shirt to break a deep , blooming bullet wound . As he ’s pick that , the sign of the zodiac ’s owner poke a shotgun into his ear and he ’s forced to put his hands up .
The man say to Zeke , “ Only two kinds of mass get shot : Criminals and victim . Which one are you ? ”
“ I do n’t have sex , ” Zeke response .
Next fourth dimension we see him , Zeke is in jail and a seedy teenager in the next cell is spatter on him , suppose , “ I want to see you suffer for a long sentence . ” Finally , after a few more seconds of torment , Zeke gets up , grabs the kid by the scruff of the neck , and smashes him unconscious against the bars dividing their two cells . So Zeke is a problematical character . And when the law officer get , they tell him he ’s been charge with murder and he ’s being taken for a trial – chained to the snotty kid he knocked out .
The two of them have been compact into an armored baby buggy when a big group of armed men ride out of the night and into Ithiel Town carrying torches . Their leader is Col . Woodrow Dolarhyde ( Harrison Ford ) , and he ’s a poisonous bad guy who refuses to pick up the plea of his Word , who work out to be the snot - nosed kid who spit on Zeke .
designate at Zeke , Woodrow says , “ That ’s the boy of a beef who steal my gold . ” He wants to snatch Zeke out of the carriage right that minute to feel out where his gold is , but he ’s interrupted when the horizon begins to gleam with light . It ’s a very closelipped Encounters - esque await UFO , which zooms toward the town , fragmentize into several ships which disappear , then reappear directly overhead , shooting puritanic lasers and bumble up the townspeople star sign by house . Fires flare up from windows , people race hollo ( including Sam Rockwell ) , and the jail carriage is knock over . Zeke and the small fry scramble out and we see Zeke ’s wristband has acquire to cover his lower arm . It ’s also radiate blue . He aims it at the ship , and scud out a beam of light that convey one down in a haze of dust and flak .
A still falls over the townsfolk as everybody stares at the fallen ship , calculate a minuscule like a TIE fighter surrounded by mounds of displaced dirt . Woodrow is stand up next to Zeke , who is still in a scrap posture , his weapon outstretched . His watch bracelet suddenly closes back up , becoming the belittled band we saw earlier . The two men exchange a significant coup d’oeil , their faces lit by UFO fire , and the clip cease .
It was an amazing series of establishing scene , and gave us a actual predilection of the film ’s pacing and style . And it was simply awful – one of the most intriguing things I ’ve seen all workweek at Con . I like the fact that it ’s Old West science fiction but not steampunk at all ( except for the style of Zeke ’s wristband ) . It actually reminded me of what The Adventures of Briscoe County would have been if it were a drama : a stark portmanteau word of cowboy justice and UFO weirdness .
Along with the residue of the crew , I was left breathless and wonder how this would all work out . Will this be hard scientific discipline fable , or more grotesque like the Indiana Jones series ? What will the aliens see like ? Is Harrison Ford actually toy a bad bozo ? And Daniel Craig as a cowboy ? Sign me the fuck up . Seriously – I predict that this film , base on a comic book by Scott Rosenberg , is go to be mindblowingly awesome when it comes out this time next twelvemonth .
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