I am not a comic book/graphic novel kind of guy. I can respect them for what they are, but I have just never gotten into them. So, when I see the top story at Variety is that DreamWorks and Universal will be turning the graphic novel “Cowboys & Aliens” into a feature film I assume it must mean something to someone.
Brian Grazer and Rob Howard will be co-producing through their Imagine banner along with Platinum Studios chairman-CEO Scott Mitchell Rosenberg and Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.
Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby will pen the script based on the novel which mixes Western and science fiction genres. 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.
Rosenberg, who ran Malibu Comics when “Men in Black” transferred from graphic novel to hit film, created the concept for “Cowboys & Aliens” and published the graphic novel in 2006.
