But he also made it clear to me that he was committed to the reality of the characters and the relationships of the characters, which is what makes my part work in the film. “On my first meeting with Jon, he showed me a lot of graphics that had been developed showing the look and feel of the thing.
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“You can read the same words, and imagine different music, but Jon’s intention to be committed seriously to the Western rather than do a tongue-in-cheek, kind of pop mish-mash, is what reassured me – that and just getting to know what work he had already done,” says Ford, who made a guest appearance in the ’60s TV Western series The Virginian.
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Once Ford realised that Jon Favreau – actor-turned-director of the smash-hit Iron Man movies – was treating the Western aspect of the movie with due respect, the 69-year-old actor took a more favourable reaction to the project in front of him. With Ford at his most irresistibly grumpy as the iron-fisted colonel of a desolate New Mexico desert town in the 1870s, combined with James Bond star Craig as a mysterious gunslinger who turns up with no memory of his past, and you have a classic Wild West scenario.īut there’s something sinister in the skies – marauding monsters screaming down with breath-taking velocity and blinding lights as they abduct the helpless one by one, challenging everything the small-town residents have ever known. In fact, this £100m summer blockbuster, executive produced by none other than Steven Spielberg, turns out to be a surprisingly solid and even serious Western adventure, which just happens to include the arrival of extra-terrestrial enemies halfway through the proceedings. It’s hardly surprising that a talent as imposing and iconic as Ford might have some qualms over a movie called Cowboys & Aliens, which sounds like it could be a spoof send-up of genres. “I was impatient with it for a bit until I had finished the script and then I became more interested in the character, and spoke to Jon (Favreau) about what tone he was looking for, and I was soon reassured.” “Well, I didn’t really know what I was reading,” says Ford, staring me fair and square in the eyes throughout his reply. I decide to take my chances and remind the veteran action star of the classic Indiana Jones and Star Wars movies about his initial hesitation, to put it mildly, over the project. Now he’s all smiles and proud handshakes, however, attending the London premiere and meeting the press alongside his British co-star Daniel Craig and director Jon Favreau. Rumour has it that after the first 30 pages he threw the script across the room at his agent, saying: “There’s nothing in this for me!” WHEN Harrison Ford began reading the script for his latest movie Cowboys & Aliens, it’s fair to say he wasn’t too impressed. Rob Driscoll asks why they were a little reluctant about the project at first Stewart executive produce.Hollywood legend Harrison Ford meets Bond star Daniel Craig in a Western with a difference. Grazer, Howard, Rosenberg, Kurtzman and Orci produce. The script for Cowboys & Aliens is by Star Trek's Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci and Damon Lindelof (television's Lost), based on Platinum Studios' graphic novel created by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg. United against a common enemy, they will prepare for an epic showdown for survival. With the help of the elusive traveler Ella (Olivia Wilde), he pulls together a posse comprised of former opponents-townsfolk, Dolarhyde and his boys, outlaws and Apache warriors-all in danger of annihilation.
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.
Now, the stranger they rejected is their only hope for salvation. Screaming down with breathtaking velocity and blinding lights to abduct the helpless one by one, these monsters challenge everything the residents have ever known.
But Absolution is about to experience fear it can scarcely comprehend as the desolate city is attacked by marauders from the sky.
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