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On The Set of Favreau’s COWBOYS & ALIENS

Director Jon Favreau tweeted this peek at the set of his new film COWBOYS & ALIENS, Dreamworks’ and Universal Pictures’ upcoming adaptation of Platinum Studios cross-genre comic. A source on the set told me it’s filled deep with a lot of extras and that shooting began on Thursday, June 10th in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Even one of the film’s stars, Olivia Wilde, tweeted “Its the coolest set ever.”

Favreau is directing Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Sam Rockwell, Olivia Wilde, Noah Ringer, Paul Dano, Clancy Brown, Adam Beach, and Ana De La Reguera in a film that crosses the classic Western with the alien-invasion movie in a blazingly original way. Joined by Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Damon Lindelof, Denis L. Stewart, and Dan Forcey, COWBOYS & ALIENS will be an action thriller that will take audiences into the Old West, where a lone cowboy leads an uprising against a terror beyond our world.

The film’s synopsis:

1873. Arizona Territory. A stranger (Craig) with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. What he discovers is that the people of Absolution don’t welcome strangers, and nobody makes a move onto its streets unless ordered to do so by the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde (Ford). Its a town that lives in fear…But Absolution is about to experience fear it can scarcely comprehend as the desolate city is attacked by marauders from the sky. Screaming down with breathtaking velocity and blinding lights to abduct the helpless one-by-one, these monsters challenge everything the residents have ever known.

Now, the stranger they rejected is their only hope for salvation. As this gunslinger slowly starts to remember who he is and where he’s been, he realizes he holds a secret that could give the town a fighting chance against the alien force. With the help of the elusive traveler Ella (Olivia Wilde), he pulls together a posse comprised of former opponents’ townsfolk, Dolarhyde and his boys, outlaws and Apache warriors, all in danger of annihilation. United against a common enemy, they will prepare for an epic showdown for survival.

You can follow the movie’s progress on Twitter or Facebook. From DreamworksSKG and Universal Pictures, COWBOYS & ALIENS will be in theaters next summer on July 29, 2011.

THE LAST AIRBENDER Trailer and Shyamalan Goes 3-D

From Apple (via Trailer Addict) comes this exciting new feature trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s upcoming fantasy THE LAST AIRBENDER.

Air, Water, Earth, Fire. Four nations tied by destiny when the Fire Nation launches a brutal war against the others. A century has passed with no hope in sight to change the path of this destruction. Caught between combat and courage, Aang (Noah Ringer) discovers he is the lone Avatar with the power to manipulate all four elements. Aang teams with Katara (Nicola Peltz), a Waterbender, and her brother, Sokka (Jackson Rathbone), to restore balance to their war-torn world.

Last week The Hollywood Reporter posted the story that Paramount and Shyamalan would be converting the film to 3-D with the help from a company called Stereo D, the same company that worked on the conversion of James Cameron’s AVATAR. According to Variety, Paramount is expecting a huge payday and once Shyamalan saw some of the conversion work done on his film and gave the go-ahead, the studio shelled out the extra $5 to $10 million. After the news broke, AIRBENDER’s producer, Frank Marshall, confirmed the 3-D upgrade on Twitter (http://twitter.com/LeDoctor):

We have been looking at the 3-D for months. The movie was designed to take advantage of the conversion and the filmmakers will supervise.

Good. I’m all for it, especially seeing this will be the director’s first foray into the 3-D world. Look for THE LAST AIRBENDER and discover your element on July 2, 2010.

Courtesy: Trailer Addict

First Images from Shyamalan’s ‘Last Airbender’

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What is it going to take to get M. Night back to his original glory?   I know, with the dwindling returns from his last couple of movies, people are even going back to his earlier works and claiming they aren’t as good as originally thought.   Personally, I still love everything the guy did before ‘Lady in the Water,’ and ‘The Last Airbender’ could just be what he needs to get him back to making great movies.

Today, we bring you these two pics from the film.   They come to us courtesy of USA Today.   In addition to the above pic of Dev Patel as Zuko, a firebender, we have this pic of Noah Ringer as Aang, the lead character.

Check it out:

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Evidently, Ringer’s nickname at school was “Avatar,” because he looked so much like the main character of the cartoon series.   Like the series’ lead character, Ringer keeps his head shaved for martial arts.

“It keeps me cool when I’m doing tae kwon do,” Ringer says.

‘The Last Airbender’ is set for release on July 2nd, 2010.   It is a planned first entry of a trilogy of films.

Source: USA Today