Adam Beach, who starred in war movies like Windtalkers and Flags Of Our Fathers, is going Western (well, Western/sci-fi hybrid) for Jon Favreau’s adaptation of graphic novel **Cowboys and Aliens.
Beach joins a cast that already includes Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Clancy Brown, Keith Carradine and Paul Dano.
The plot (for those still unaware) finds a mysterious, amnesiac stranger (Craig) stumbling into a tightly controlled Arizona desert town known as Absolution. It’s not the friendliest place for outsiders and the situation is made worse by the cruel grip of Colonel Woodrow Dollarhyde.
But then something happens to give the town bigger problems than the newcomer’s arrival or Dollarhyde’s despotic rule: aliens screeching down from the sky in flying saucers to abduct and kill humans. Soon the residents and a group of other cowboys are teaming up with the resident Apache tribe to fight off this brand new menace.
Can they win an epic battle against a seemingly unstoppable force? It helps that the drifter’s memories start to return, giving them key pieces of information about the dangerous extraterrestrial threat.
Beach is playing Nat Colorado, a half-Apache who works for Dollarhyde, in a script co-written by Robert Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof.
Favreau has already begun making preparations for a summer shoot, and the movie should be invading our cinemas on August 5.