Favreau Sticks to Comics

Currently in post production on "Iron Man 2" Jon Favreau has just announced his next directing duties. The Iron Man helmer has decided to stay in the comic realm and will work once again with Robert Downey Jr. on "Cowboys & Aliens" for Dreamworks. Read the full story below...


The Dreamworks "Cowboys & Aliens" project has been in development for some time now with various writers and directors attached. Last summer Robert Downey Jr. signed on to star in the comic adaption as Zeke Jackson, when it seemed Ron Howard would direct. Since then Howard is definitely not directing and very little development news has surfaced other than the project being bounced between Columbia, Imagine Entertainment (housed under Universal) and now at Dreamworks, who intend to make it a "tentpole to the elevate their newly independent status." Ron Howard has now moved into a producers role along with Brian Grazer, while Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci will serve as executive producers on the live-action adaption.

Dreamworks is hoping to get "Cowboys & Aliens" into theaters by summer 2011 making it Jon Favreau's next project after wrapping post-production of "Iron Man 2". Favreau will be working off a script that was originally penned by Joshua Oppenheimer and Thomas Donnelly, but has later recieved re-write treatments by Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby. The plot is described as: In Silver City, Arizona, Apache Indians and Western settlers must lay their differences aside when an alien spaceship crash lands in their city.

"Cowboys & Aliens" will mark the third time Favreau and Robert Downey Jr. will have collaborated in a director/actor fashion, with all three of those efforts being comic book properties. I love both of these guys and am interested in anything they do, regardless of the details. So it goes without saying that having both talents attached to a decent comic will prove to only bolster interests in the property. More news on "Cowboys & Aliens" as it develops...

Source: THR

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