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''Cowboys & Aliens'' is a 2011 American-Canadian science fiction Western film directed by Jon Favreau and starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, and Olivia Wilde. The film is based on the 2006 graphic novel of the same name created by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg. The main plot revolves around an amnesiac outlaw (Craig), a wealthy cattleman (Ford), and a mysterious traveler (Wilde) who must ally to save a group of townspeople abducted by aliens. The screenplay was written by Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Damon Lindelof, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, based on a screen story by the latter two along with Steve Oedekerk. The film was produced by Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Kurtzman, Orci and Rosenberg, with Steven Spielberg and Favreau serving as executive producers. The project began development in April 1997, when Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures bought film rights to a concept pitched by Rosenberg, former president at Malibu Comics, which he described as a graphic novel in development. After the graphic novel was published in 2006, development on the film was begun again, and Favreau signed on as director in September 2009. On a budget of $163 million, filming for ''Cowboys & Aliens'' began in June 2010, in New Mexico and California. Despite studio pressure to release the film in 3-D, Favreau chose to film traditionally and in anamorphic format (widescreen picture on standard 35 mm film) to further a "classic movie feel".〔 Measures were taken to maintain a serious Western element despite the film's "inherently comic" title and premise.〔 The film's aliens were designed to be "cool and captivating",〔 with some details, such as a fungus that grows on their wounds, created to depict the creatures as frontiersmen facing adversity in an unfamiliar place. ''Cowboys & Aliens'' premiered at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con and was released theatrically in the United States and Canada on , 2011. The film, though having grossed its budget back, is considered to be a financial disappointment, taking $174.8 million in box office receipts on a $163 million budget. ''Cowboys & Aliens'' received mixed reviews, with critics generally praising its acting and production but criticizing its blend of the Western and science fiction genres. ==Plot== In 1873, New Mexico Territory, an unnamed loner (Daniel Craig) wakes up in the desert being injured with no memory and with a strange metal object on his wrist. After killing three drifters who think he might be worth bounty money, he takes their clothes, weapons and a horse. He wanders into the small town of Absolution where the local preacher Meacham (Clancy Brown) treats his wound. After the stranger subdues Percy Dolarhyde (Paul Dano), a volatile drunk who has been terrorizing the town, Sheriff Taggart (Keith Carradine) recognizes the stranger as Jake Lonergan, a wanted outlaw, and attempts to arrest him. Jake beats up the posse sent to take him in and nearly escapes, but a mysterious woman named Ella Swenson (Olivia Wilde) knocks him out. Taggart prepares to transport both Jake and Percy to Santa Fe for trial. Percy's father, Colonel Woodrow Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford), a wealthy and ruthless cattleman, arrives with his men and demands that Percy be released. He suddenly gazes at Jake and also demands he be released to him, since Jake was the one who stole Dolarhyde's gold. During the standoff, A group of multiple alien craft begin attacking the town. Percy, the sheriff and many other townsfolk are grabbed by long, whip-like feelers hanging from the bottom of the alien ships and are abducted. Jake's shackle unfolds and becomes a weapon, shooting down one of the ships with a single shot and ending the attack. Dolarhyde, Ella, and other townsfolk form a posse to track an injured alien that escaped from the downed ship. Meanwhile, Jake travels to an abandoned cabin and in a flashback, recalls returning to it with stolen gold but just after a woman in the cabin, Alice (Abigail Spencer), demands that he has it returned but they are abducted by the aliens. His memories returning and Jake joins up with the posse. During the evening, they come upon a capsized paddle wheel steamboat that the aliens apparently dumped miles from any water. They camp in it and during the night the alien they were tracking kills Meacham, who sacrifices himself to save Emmett (Noah Ringer), Taggart's grandson. By the next morning, most of the posse has deserted, and those remaining are attacked by Jake's former gang. Jake, who had stolen the gang's loot after their last heist, attempts to retake control but it is failed. While fleeing, the aliens begin attacking the town again and Ella is captured. Jake jumps aboard the ship and attacks the alien pilot, causing the ship to crash but Ella is fatally wounded. Shortly after the crash, however, the remaining posse is captured by Chiricahua Apache Indians, who blame them for the alien attacks. After Ella's corpse is dumped on a fire by a Chiricahua warrior, she is fully resurrected and emerges from the fire in the nude while wrapping her up in a blanket. Ella reveals herself to be an alien from "beyond the stars" who had travelled to Earth to help resist the invaders after they destroyed her home world. The aliens, who are mining gold and abducting humans to conduct experiments to find their weaknesses, are far stronger and more durable than humans, and have superior weaponry, but are not invulnerable. They can be stabbed and shot to death because only Jake's gauntlet weapon can kill them with a single blast. She also states that the aliens that previously attacked them are just scouts. Ella claims Jake holds the secret to the aliens' whereabouts and argues they must defeat the aliens before they exterminate all life on earth. After taking medicine offered by the Apaches' medicine man (Paul Ortega), Jake recalls that Alice was euthanized after she was used in an alien experiment, but he had escaped, inadvertently stealing the gauntlet-like alien weapon encasing his wrist. He then also remembers the location of the aliens' base of operations. Armed with this knowledge, the group, now led by Dolarhyde, prepares to attack the aliens' grounded mother ship. Meanwhile, Jake returns to his old gang and persuades them to join the fight and In a sneak attack, the humans breach the defenses of the spaceship by destroying the aircraft entrance, forcing the aliens into a ground battle. Jake and Ella board the ship and free the captives, but Jake is captured. Dolarhyde rescues him and both men escape the ship after killing the alien responsible for Alice's death. As the remaining aliens are taking off in their damaged craft, Ella sacrifices herself, enters the ship's core and destroys it by using Jake's wrist gauntlet, causing the alien ship to be obliterated. With the Aliens defeated and obliterated, Jake's memory partially returns and some abducted townsfolk begin to remember their pasts. Still a wanted man, Jake decides to leave; the sheriff and Dolarhyde say they will claim that he was killed in the invasion. The citizens have intended to reconstruct the town with the expectation that the newly revealed gold mine will soon bring many new settlers. At the end of the film, Jake kindly rejects Dolarhyde's offer to help reconstruct the town and rides away. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cowboys & Aliens」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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