Speaking to
Crave Online, Roberto Orci - who co-wrote films such as
Star Trek,
Transformers, and the upcoming
Cowboys & Aliens - talks about
C&A is different from its source material, saying that the characters portrayed by Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford are not featured in the novel. He also talks in detail about the way that the film was shot.
Does any of the original comic book/graphic novel end up in the script?
Elements of it, but the trick is to do something that A, translates to live action, B, is a surprise. You don’t want to just adapt what’s already out there. You want to change it up a little bit and make sure that it’s original.
What did their aliens look like?
Well, check ‘em out.
Are the Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford characters in the books?
Roberto Orci: No.
The footage really looks like a [Sergio] Leone western. Is that all in how Jon Favreau shoots it or does it come from the writing too?
We have Matty Libatique who just did Black Swan as a cinematographer, just lit it beautifully. You’ve got those amazing vistas out there. Anywhere you point a camera out there was kind of a beautiful spot. I like the look of the film too. That’s why we shot it on film as well. Part of the decision not to go 3D was in order so we could give it kind of a classic look. When we did 3D tests, it was like oh cool, the horse is in 3D but I don’t know, it just felt fake somehow.
Orci also talked briefly about work on
Star Trek 2, basically saying what's been said already - filming starts in the fall, they're changing things in the script as production goes on, etc.
Cowboys & Aliens invades theaters July 29th, later this year!