00:00What's interesting about Cowboys and Aliens is that I've always been a fan of the Western
00:03and I love science fiction. I love science fiction. I've worked in science fiction
00:08and you don't really get to work in the Western because there's just not a market
00:12for it, especially around the world. The minute it turns into Cowboys
00:16and Aliens, you now have an in. You now have
00:19a point of departure that makes the film accessible
00:24and it becomes an alien invasion film. So
00:27you have this great palette of characters
00:32to draw from and imagery, but it's also updated and made
00:36a little bit fresher and more compelling by the fact that you are now
00:40creating an effects show around the sleepy
00:44backdrop of a Western. Daniel Craig
00:47for me, that was the first cast member we brought on. He's a very
00:52intelligent, talented actor who people know
00:55because of James Bond.
00:58You know, and the choice to
01:00go with somebody who wasn't American to play
01:02our main cowboy in Cowboys and Aliens was informed somewhat by me talking to him and
01:07looking at him and realizing that there's a certain gruff, handsome quality to him that
01:14that if you look at him closely, there's a Steve McQueen type quality there.
01:20The producers and you know, you got Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard and Harrison Ford found himself at a point
01:27in his life when this was an interesting subject matter and an interesting role for him to take on.
01:32And I met with him and spoke to him and sat down about his body of work, what he has
01:38done in the past, what he wants to do now, and how to use the iconography of who he is.
01:46I mean, as far as I'm concerned, for my generation, he's like John Wayne.
01:50You cast him in a movie, you're not just casting him, but there's an entire body of work that came
01:55before.
01:57In Cowboys and Aliens, we're trying to do something completely different, and I think certainly in a summer that's going
02:04to be really the only movies that people are making less movies now, and if you look at the summer
02:10schedule, it's a crowded marketplace.
02:12And if you look at what's out there, everything's either a sequel or an extension of or a reboot of
02:20or a, you know, because people want to trade upon familiarity because they know that there's a lot of things.
02:25There's money there, and so they're continuing sagas of people that we've seen, and there's not a lot of surprises.
02:32You've got to go bigger and better.
02:35Working with Steven Spielberg, it's been great to just be able to pick his brain and say, how did you
02:39do this? How did you do that? How would you do it now?
02:41How do you use today's technology to present the imagery and the feeling that I felt so strongly when I
02:46saw Close Encounters, you know?
02:47And those lights on the horizon coming up, and the horses shaking and bucking, and the dogs barking, and the
02:57wind blowing, and the signs swinging, right?
03:00There's this ineffable supernatural force that appears, and, you know, and Steven's the master of that.
03:07So, let's get started.
03:08So, let's get started.
03:09Grazie a tutti.
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