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On A Steel Horse I Ride

By TK | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (49)

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The premise sounds so friggin’ goofy. It’s the kind of comic book that gets derided for, at the risk of stating the obvious, too comic book-y. It’s such a childish, fanboy concept that it seems better suited for a children’s film than a big budget, big star, big action flick.

Daniel Craig. Harrison Ford. Olivia Wilde. Sam Rockwell. Paul freaking Dano? CLANCY BROWN?! Directed by the man who made the world love Iron Man. How did these pieces come together, for fuck’s sake? All gathered into a picture about, well, cowboys who fight aliens. It reminds me of some of the sillier What If…? titles in Marvel’s catalogue. What if… Captain America Became President? What if… Wolverine Was Lord Of The Vampires? What If… Thor Battled Conan? (All actual titles, by the way)

What if… Cowboys Fought Aliens?

Idiotic.

So yeah, goofy as shit. Here’s the trailer.

It’s pretty fucking great.

Now, here’s the thing. I don’t know if this will be a great movie, but damn if it isn’t a great trailer. You already know what the movie’s about. The plot literally is in the title. But… I love that there’s no voice over. I love that nothing is explained. They show almost nothing about the aliens… lights in the sky, a bit of a crashing ship, and Daniel Craig’s super-duper wrist rocket laser gizmo. It’s the rare trailer that doesn’t give much away, but piques your interest. And damn it, the movie looks good. Also? I feel like I’ve waited my whole life for Harrison Ford to play a bad guy.

Cowboys and Aliens. Sheesh.









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Comments

On a Daniel Craig I ride...well, I wish.

Posted by: latvianluck at November 17, 2010 4:18 PM

Now that's how you make a B-Movie!

And the presence of

a. Daniel Craig not all bulked up
b. GET OFF MY PLANE Harrison Ford

bodes well too.


Posted by: Mrs. Julien at November 17, 2010 4:20 PM

My inner 10-year old loves this movie and wants it to be its big brother.

Posted by: Fredo at November 17, 2010 4:27 PM

WANT.
NOW.

Posted by: Rykker at November 17, 2010 4:35 PM

A trailer has one mission; to make you want to see something right f'ing now.

Mission accomplished.

Posted by: Joseph Finn at November 17, 2010 4:40 PM

Thank you, Pajiba!

Posted by: Sharif at November 17, 2010 4:41 PM

Harrison Ford, once upon a time, did play a bad guy: What Lies Beneath.

Posted by: Jennnnnnnnnnnnnnn at November 17, 2010 4:48 PM

I want that super-duper gizmo, and everything that's attached to it. Especially the hat. Pretty pronto please.

Posted by: Rooks at November 17, 2010 4:53 PM

Suddenly I'm not so upset about the lack of a Bond movie on the horizon.

Bring me Daniel Craig and his cowboy hat RIGHT NOW!!!

WANT!! {whimper}

Posted by: MM at November 17, 2010 5:04 PM

Jennnnnnnnnnnnnnn---

I had almost succeeded in convincing myself that What Lies Beneath never happened. Thanks for nothing.

Posted by: jthomas666 at November 17, 2010 5:09 PM

What I think we've all been waiting for is Harrison as a Bad Boy COWBOY. I don't care how old and/or crazy old man looking he gets. Still hot.

Posted by: JenVegas at November 17, 2010 5:25 PM

Daniel Craig remains my #1 choice for Roland Deschain. Make it so.

Posted by: logar at November 17, 2010 5:26 PM

Based on the title I expected something like a Firefly rip off. Glad to see it is totally different and I can't wait to see it for all the reasons mentioned above.

Posted by: Viking at November 17, 2010 5:37 PM

Jon Favreau, you had me at "Cowboys"(BIG Spaghetti Western fan here), but god-friggin'-DAMN does this look absolutely badass.

Why do Hollywood people think the "b" in "b-movie" stands for "bad"? Why can't all directors, writers and actors take a fun concept seriously and make an actual good and ENTERTAINING flick out of it? I may be speaking too soon, maybe it WILL be shit, but so far this looks INCREDIBLY cool.

Hell of a moment to make it, too, since(with the exception of Jonah Hex, *sob*) Hollywood's actually been on a good roll these last few years with good westerns, and Red Dead Redemption definitely piqued the younger 'uns interest in the genre.

Posted by: Danny from Puerto Rico at November 17, 2010 5:41 PM

Wait, is this really called "Way Back To The Future?"

Posted by: nat at November 17, 2010 6:00 PM

Tears have been shed. This is fucking beautiful. I hope Sam Rockwell plays an alien with a bad mouth and sweet sweet dance moves.

Posted by: sailboat at November 17, 2010 6:16 PM

YIPPY KAI YAY MOFO

despite still having seriously bitter association concerning the big HF over the skullfuck, this movie needs to come out TODAY

Posted by: idleprimate at November 17, 2010 6:18 PM

Wow. Cowboy Daniel Craig might be better than Layer Cake Daniel Craig or even Bond Daniel Craig.
Sweaty, dusty, and wearing a cowboy hat and a ray gun bracelet. Mama like.

Posted by: Lemon Poundcake at November 17, 2010 6:20 PM

I hope Sam Rockwell plays an alien with a bad mouth and sweet sweet dance moves.

YESSSS!!! Sweet fancy Moses, yes!!

Posted by: MM at November 17, 2010 7:41 PM

I just showed this to my Dads and we agree that it should be imitated by those Asylum guys. I may actually have to leave my cave to see this.
AND: I hope Harrison says "I'll see you in HELL"

Posted by: DeckOfficer!! at November 17, 2010 8:10 PM

I want to have this movie's adopted babies.

Posted by: the_wakeful at November 17, 2010 8:40 PM

Can make a drinking game out of it, every time someone scowls, DRINK!

Will watch.

Posted by: TrickyHD at November 17, 2010 9:18 PM

Isn't Harrison's face kinda already frozen in a scowl? (I bet his momma tol'im not to do that!)

The's gonna be some seriously drunk-ass folk playin' that game.

Posted by: Rykker at November 17, 2010 9:22 PM

I clapped like an idiot when I watched this, and I AM NOT ASHAMED.

Posted by: Janey at November 17, 2010 9:32 PM

HA. This looks so ridiculous. And fun! I'm in.

Oh, Daniel Craig. You look hot even when covered in three inches of dirt.

But Olivia Wilde? I just keep expecting her to break out on some 'sassy' nonsense to House to prove that she isn't a drama queen but that just makes her look like an idiot drama queen.

Logar: that's a brilliant idea. I hadn't even thought of him! But he's got the ice-cold stare down pat. Perfect.

Posted by: figgy at November 17, 2010 9:41 PM

Bitchin'.

Posted by: Cindy at November 17, 2010 9:50 PM

"What if… Wolverine Was Lord Of The Vampires" was the shit.

This looks to be the shit as well.

Posted by: Mick J at November 17, 2010 10:00 PM

That trailer is THE SHIT!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: mechadave at November 17, 2010 10:37 PM

There where a couple of bits of this that looked a lot like my favourite computer game, "Aliens and Indians" ...I mean, "Prey".

Particularly the introduction scene in the game. Best use of "Don't Fear the Reaper" I've ever seen.

Posted by: DarthBrookes at November 17, 2010 10:41 PM

Here's the intro.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tph1FX1fBQg

Still hanging out for this to be made into a movie.

Posted by: DarthBrookes at November 17, 2010 10:55 PM

It reminds me of some of the sillier What If…? titles in Marvel’s catalogue.

Personally I was a big fan of "What if Aunt May was the Silver Surfer..."

Posted by: mswas at November 17, 2010 11:02 PM

With an uncredited cameo by Judi Dench:

Daniel Craig wakes up in a desert, a hologram of M projects out of the strange manacle-like wristband on his arm....

"Good morning Double Oh Seven, for your next assignment we have dumped you off in the American Southwest. We have reason to believe QUANTUM is trying out a new set of weaponry under the guise of the local UFO lore. Your cover will be that of an actor working at the local Wild West re-enactment theme park "Six Gun City". Your usual CIA contact Felix Leiter is away on assignment so your new contact for the durration of this mission is a one Jack Ryan...the old bugger isn't even a field agent, fancy that. Q has already outfitted you with the latest MI6 timepiece which also houses a super-secret plasma launcher...be advised you can only use it twice.

Sorry about the amnesia, but I assure you it is only temporary. We had take countermeasures to that overextended libido of yours, and this is a nasty side effect. As it was you still managed to nail one of the barmaid extras in your jet-lagged state. Still you should find all your combat skills still exist and Q promises me it will fade in 48 hours provided you steer clear of gin and young girls. Good Luck."

-M

Posted by: bleujayone at November 17, 2010 11:04 PM

That was glorious. GLORIOUS! I cannot wait for this movie to come out..

And logar - I like the way you think! He would make an awesome Roland.

Posted by: Kelly at November 17, 2010 11:17 PM

At some point in the movie, Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford need to have a Craggy-Face-Off competition.

Posted by: Bistro at November 18, 2010 12:07 AM

Looks like a great improvement over Space Western Comics.

http://www.comics.org/issue/71227/cover/4/

Posted by: Pat C at November 18, 2010 12:21 AM

This trailer looked pretty fantastic save Harrison Ford's least tough "tough guy" line. Lame. I absolutely HATED Air Force 1, so I have zero interest in "get off my plane" Harrison Ford. I just don't think he's got it anymore. He's the same age as my dad now, and 60+ yr old tough guys just don't scare me much, kinda like Wilford Brimley as the tough guy in The Firm.

Really, Ford should have a whole buncha lines that accentuate his age, things like: "GET OFF MY HOVAROUND!" or, "GIVE ME BACK MY READING GLASSES, OR I'M GONNA SOIL MY DEPENDS!" or even "GET MY WIFE A HAMBURGER!"

Posted by: EJ at November 18, 2010 4:07 AM

Oh, Harrison. You're back! I'm so glad you stopped doing bad movies (see: that one movie wherein you work in a bank. A bank! Harrison Ford does not work in a bank) and started doing things where you can be cranky and yell at people (see: Morning Glory (really do see it, it's pretty fun)) because you are awesome and nobody in Hollywood is equal to the task of writing you anything epic enough now that they gave the Jack Ryan franchise away and Lucas is allowed to write his own dialogue.
Also, thank you for not aging in a ridiculous way that makes me unhappy to look at you(see: Cary 'Oh Westley' Elwes).
You know, you and Robert Redford should find some way of hanging out in a movie. I'm just saying, if you're doing cowboy movies now...

Posted by: BiblioGeek at November 18, 2010 5:28 AM

They managed to make a great trailer . . . and Sam Rockwell remains unseen. Amazing.

Pity about the title, though. Is it too late to change it?

Posted by: Kballs at November 18, 2010 7:54 AM

I concur with Logar et al:

Daniel Craig for Roland!

Hollywood, make it happen.

Posted by: latvianluck at November 18, 2010 8:49 AM

I can forgive you for not remembering that Harrison Ford already played a villian in What Lies Beneath because, well the movie was What Lies Beneath.

But the Conversation? That movie is a goddamn classic. Admittedly Ford's part was only a bit larger than Cindy Williams's but c'mon -- Gene Hackman, Francis Ford Coppola? 1970's Francis Ford Coppola? This is a movie fanboy site, right?

Posted by: Irving Washington at November 18, 2010 9:30 AM

Doesnt work for me. Been messaging Favreau too to get on this error.
Is it just me? Been aching for this.

PS Harrison Ford has played a baddie before..with Michelle Pfeiffer, some crazy doctor who killed his wife or something. I know because my mother still cannot get over seeing him play bad. And yeah, he did a bang up job too!

Posted by: JaneSpotting at November 18, 2010 10:49 AM

JaneSpotting,

I wish I knew what movie you were talking about! I can't seem to come up with the name . . . guess we'll never know!

Posted by: Kballs at November 18, 2010 11:31 AM

Damn it! *takes off thigh-high patent leather tap boots*

Where're my chaps? *grumble*

Posted by: The Gay at November 18, 2010 11:40 AM


i think i just came

in my pants

Posted by: HappyGobo at November 18, 2010 11:55 AM

YAY! The Gay! YAY!

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at November 18, 2010 1:29 PM

I think I just got pregnant from that trailer. Daniel Craig space cowboy babies for everyone!

Posted by: monkeyhateclean at November 18, 2010 2:07 PM

I never thought of Daniel Craig for Roland Deschain, but now that I have, it makes perfect sense. And is awesome.

This trailer totally made my day, which until now was pretty shitty. Thanks, Hollywood!

Posted by: lise at November 18, 2010 4:31 PM

Looks damn cool to me. Why shouldn't aliens and cowboys exist in the same film? If you wanted to conquer Earth, would you wait around for humans to develop the atom bomb and other formidable weaponry that might give them a chance? Maybe wait until their cities look a little more futuristic and their civilization has advanced a bit so the fight is more sporting? Fuck no--you hit 'em when they're scattered over the prairies, living in wood shacks and struggling for basic survival, using animals for transportation and carrying guns that take ten minutes to reload. Christ, this was so totally my idea, I told the Big Giant Head that we were waiting too long, we should go in with death rays blazing back when you puny humans were living in caves (caves, for fuck's sake), but noooo, it would look too bizarre, we would clash with the surroundings (are we expanding an empire here or trying to make the Best Dressed List?), we needed to blend in, so here am I, brain the size of a planet, reduced to commenting on movie site message boards, to learn the "culture" and the ways of the internet, while my communication implant seems to get hotter by the second, and shit, is it vibrating now, what jackass designs a brain implant that vibr

Posted by: DeadBessie at November 19, 2010 9:24 AM

This trailer was in the previews before Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - the entire theater burst into applause at the end of the trailer. It was awesome.

Posted by: Edith at November 20, 2010 12:03 PM