Harrison Ford Didn't Understand 'Cowboys & Aliens' Script

[FormerBondFan]

But would it end up almost like Shamadingdong's The Last Airbender?

[katied]

Men In Black!I knew those ads reminded me of *something*.!

[Omega]

This poster sucks.

Men In Black!I knew those ads reminded me of *something*.!

MIB cartoon had The Way Out West Syndrome, takes place guess where.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0mn4Vw2P-s[/video]

[Blowfeld]

No idea how it will do when its day come althou if it does poorly worldwide I would offer that 'Cowboys' are not as interesting to the rest of the world as they are to Americans. The Man From Snowy River VS Aliens anyone? Didn't think so

[katied]

No idea how it will do when its day come althou if it does poorly worldwide I would offer that 'Cowboys' are not as interesting to the rest of the world as they are to Americans. The Man From Snowy River VS Aliens anyone? Didn't think so

I'm sure it'll get hugely hyped elsewhere, even if it's a complete turkey.

[Dr. No]

Being Bond doesn't sell a movie, sorry. It will bring some people in who wouldn't bother otherwise I guess if you're scifi fans this is a big deal.

[katied]

See also:The Tin Tin Movie.

[Dr. No]

See also:The Tin Tin Movie.

I have a vague recollection of tintin, I am unsure of what to expect from it.

[katied]

The fact it's being pushed back something like a YEAR from when it's going to be released in the rest of the world doesn't bode well for it. Interestingly, in the book that that movie is based on, Craig's character isn't even in it that much.They've shoehorned him in there.

[Dr. No]

The ad was just on TV I am not sure what to make of it, it may be ok

[Alessandra]

Apparently Olivia Wilde just missed out for the role of Vesper.

However, things could have turned out quite differently for the 27-year-old actress if she had landed the role of James Bond's (Daniel Craig) love interest, Vesper Lynd, in director Martin Campbell's Casino Royale, a role that she wanted "so badly," but which ultimately went to British actress Eva Green. In a recent interview with Total Film Magazine, Wilde said that she is "happy it didn't work out" on Casino Royale because then she "wouldn't have been able to do" Cowboys and Aliens alongside Craig. She said the sci-fi and Western mash-up movie is "a better pairing" for her and Craig

I do not think she was right for the role paired with Daniel (not that Green was a good catch either), however with a younger man, oh, say Henry Cavill it could have been a historic paring.

Lord, please don't make me think of that!! Thinking we could have had Henry Cavill and Olivia Wilde instead of Daniel Craig and freaking Eva Green makes me want to rip off Barbara's head with a whip, catwoman style! (and Michelle Pfeiffer did ONE TAKE for that scene. The first one was good. ) d**n right, it could have been a historic pairing. For real. Both ACTUALLY looking the part and with the right attitude and acting skills, and both gorgeous. Sigh.

About Cowboys & Aliens. I think the problem lies in the concept. It's too much of an absurd concept to begin with. There are REALLY smart people involved as Mazer said, and hell the writers involved are my favorites and those I want for BOND (Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, Lindelhof I can do without, and I want Jeff Eastin instead, he will put in the necessary panache and Cary Grant-like style he injects in White Collar, which is perfect for Bond, the other two are perfect for the action and the tough/dark side, and Alias and Hawaii Five-0 are proof of it). So I don't have any doubt these people CAN write a great script. But if the concept is messed up to begin with, well there's not much to do. Harrison Ford's reaction anyway shows that I had a right to react the way I did to the trailer. I thought it looked like a hot mess.

[FormerBondFan]

Ale....would you rather prefer Sadowitz as Bond over seeing C&A?

[Blowfeld]

Please follow the link for the full story --->Hollywood’s Riskiest Summer Movie
The $180 million sci-fi mash-up Cowboys & Aliens arrives, backed by Steven Spielberg and starring James Bond–which is why it might bomb at the box office. Chris Lee reports.

Marquee draws (and/or the lack thereof): In Cowboys & Aliens Craig portrays his first American character: a tough hombre who awakens in the desert with a case of amnesia, a weeping chest wound, and a mysterious metal bracelet strapped to his wrist. The British actor may boast international name recognition as the sixth actor to portray James Bond, having starred in two films, Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, that took in a collective $1.68 billion at the box-office. But outside the franchise he’s still a relatively untested commodity. Craig’s only star turn in a movie in which his character is not named Bond, as a Jewish resistance fighter in the 2008 drama Defiance, failed to catch fire commercially. Meanwhile at age 69, Ford is literally geriatric—in this writer’s opinion, a difficult person to buy jumping off broncos and kicking alien ass as a curmudgeonly cattle baron hell-bent on rescuing his son from extra-terrestrial abduction. Excluding Ford’s return to form as everyone’s favorite bull whip-wielding adventurer in 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (which grossed a whopping $787 million worldwide), you’d have to go back to the actor’s 2000 horror-mystery What Lies Beneath—and ignore a string of his out-and-out flops—for evidence of the erstwhile Han Solo’s movie superstardom. As well, with Craig in Sweden, starring in director David Fincher’s adaptation of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy, and the famously misanthropic Ford’s chafing against his interview schedule, using their combined stardom to promote Cowboys & Aliens gets tricky.

The fan boy Hail Mary: Explaining his choice to premiere the movie at that Mecca of nerd triumphalism, San Diego’s Comic-Con, Favreau said: “I feel like [the Comic-Con crowd has] come out for me, they’ve supported me. That’s where it all started, and I want to give back. They should have the opportunity to see [Cowboys & Aliens] first.” Further, Favreau has used his considerable clout in the fan boy community—his million-plus Twitter following and chummy relationships with geek bloggers—to interface with his intended audience at every turn. Which, in another moviemaking era, might have been enough to put Cowboys & Aliens into the black. But in 2011, a year that has seen audiences drop by 10 percent and box-office receipts fall by 9 percent from the year before, even the goodwill of fan boy mavens may not be enough to prop up the film. In 2010, the action-romantic comedy Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World and the impressionistic thriller Sucker Punch went over gangbusters with the Comic-Con crowd. But when it came to selling tickets, both films were D.O.A.

[Blowfeld]

Box Office: Is Jon Favreau Losing His Uphill Battle for 'Cowboys & Aliens'?
Published: July 28, 2011 @ 4:31 pm

Sensing his genre-blending movie would be a tough sell to moviegoers during a summer rife with established film brands, filmmaker Jon Favreau [1] has stumped for months, all across the country, in support of Universal's "Cowboys & Aliens [2]."

But it seems certain that, despite Favreau's extensive campaigning for the $163 million film, it won't do big business at the weekend box office.

Various box office watchers predict that the PG-13-rated film, which was executive produced by Steven Spielberg [4], stars Daniel Craig [5], Harrison Ford [6] and Olivia Wilde [7], and opens up in 3,750 locations in the U.S. and Canada, will only premiere to around $40 million-$45 million this weekend.

Amid a summer in which even moribund superhero movies like "The Green Hornet [8]" are opening to more than $50 million, that doesn't seem like such a great start.

Also opening widely this weekend, Sony Pictures 3D-CG take on Belgian-created cartoon figures The Smurfs will open up in 3,395 domestic theaters, with various prognostications putting the $110 million film's opening at more than $30 million.

Also read: 'Smurfs': Cheesy Reboot Will Annoy & Disgust Audiences of All Ages [9]
Also, Warner will debut Steve Carell [10] comedy "Crazy, Stupid, Love [11]" in 3,020 theaters, with expectations hovering around the mid-teens for the $45 million PG-rated film.

Also read: 'Crazy Stupid Love': Needs More Crazy, Less Stupid, Much Less Gooey [12]

Limited debuts this weekend include Joe Cornish's acclaimed sci-fi film "Attack the Block," [13] with Sony launching it in eight theaters.

Lionsgate will start Dominic Cooper drama "The Devil's Double" off in five locations.

And Magnolia will premiere Jay Baruchel comedy-thriller "Good Neighbors" [14] in two theaters.

Also, Marvel/Paramount's "Captain America: The First Avenger" will remain a factor at the weekend box office, with second-weekend projections falling in the $30 million range.

The big story, however, is "Cowboys & Aliens," Universal's bold attempt to render an orignal, if mashed up, concept on a summer box office repetitively rife with comic-book movies and series sequels.

Favreau started stumping for the film early. As the Los Angeles Times reported [15] in early February, he was even jetting into small Iowa towns, along with "Cowboys" producer Ron Howard, film reels in hand, trying to seed buzz for the movie.

At Comic-Con last weekend, Favreau seemed to have culminated his big campaign in high style, with the movie's key demographic constituency giving the filmmaker and the cast a warm applause after the world premiere of the film.

But the movie hasn't found much traction with critics, who were giving it a collective 44 percent fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Across all four key audience groups, meanwhile, total awareness of the film only hovers at around 85 percent, according to research firm NRG -- a good number would be in the 90s.

While the reviews for "Cowboys & Aliens" are hardly solid, they're a lot better than those of "The Smurfs," which have moved up from a conspicuously flat 0 on Rotten Tomatoes to total around 9 pecent fresh.

Noted TheWrap film critic Alonso Duralde: "It does for children's entertainment what lead paint does for children's toys."

Ouch.

As for "Crazy, Stupid, Love," the ensemble-casted comedy -- which stars Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore and Emma Stone alongside Carell -- is scoring a strong 72 percent fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

Possibly signaling an over-performance for the Dan Fogelman-penned comedy: From "The 40 Year Old Virgin" to "Evan Almighty" to "Get Smart" to "Date Night" to "Dinner With Schmucks," Carell has not headlined a big-budget comedy yet that's opened to less than $20 million.

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[shaken not stirred]

I knew they'd screw up the smurfs, another thing from My childhood destroyed and with voltron being made into a film that's definetly going to be next, all it needs is Michael I can't stop blowing things up all the bloody time for no apparent reason and shot lots of helicopters in the evening bay.

[Alessandra]

but they DID NOT screw up the Smurfs, it's doing great and it's getting great reviews. AND it's for now tied, and by tomorrow probably BEATING Cowboys & Aliens. For clarity, these links should be added:

http://www.deadline.com/2011/07/first-b ... -love-18m/

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/07/31/b ... ns-smurfs/

Clearly, Harrison Ford wasn't the only one not understanding the script.

[katied]

My parents are trying to find a movie to take my niece and nephews to when they're over at my parents' house for a week(my brother and his wife are going to Hawaii, the luckies!) and The Smurfs and Harry Potter are both under consideration.

[bjmdds]

Potter for sure.

[FormerBondFan]

Go for Potter.

[Thunderpussy]

it's will be soo d**n funny if C&A gets beateb by the Smurfs.