Cowboys & Aliens, the graphic novel about exactly what the title says, is set to become a live action feature film. DreamWorks and Universal Pictures are joining forces to bring it to the big screen. They’ve tapped the writing team of Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, who wrote Children of Men and the forthcoming John Carter of Mars to write the script.
The original graphic novel, published by Platinum Studios Comics, is an old-fashioned Western with aliens. According to Variety, the story is “set in 1800s Arizona, a skirmish between cowboys and Apaches is interrupted by the crash landing of a space ship. The alien commander plans to tame the Old West and enslave everyone, but the cowboys and Native Americans turn their six-guns against the alien invaders.”
There’s already a web site for the film: www.cowboysandaliens.net. And the full text of the original Cowboys and Aliens is available online at www.drunkduck.com.