They combined the two genres with enough irony and humour but the humour was not based on the characters winking at the audience. Well, I'd heard the title when the writers did their first draft, and I thought 'there's a really cool version of this film to be made if you get it right.' And I read the writers' first draft of the script and they got it right, they got the balance. As a filmmaker, is that potentially campy title liberating and fun or do you think it restricts the appeal of the movie? Excerpts:įrankly, how much does a title like Cowboys & Aliens help? Like, say, Snakes On A Plane, it leaves no room for ambiguity, and ends up promising something for two very different 'species' of genre-fans.
Most of our readers may know Jon Favreau because of his role as Monica's zillionaire boyfriend Pete on hit sitcom Friends, but acting is a hat the director only wears occasionally nowadays.Īfter writing and starring in indie films like Swingers, Favreau directed Elf, brought Tony Stark to life in Iron Man and Iron Man 2, and is now swinging for the fences with Cowboys & Aliens, hitting the screens today.įavreau had a brief conversation over e-mail with Raja Sen, a conversation that led to a quick look at Harrison's Ford on-screen persona over the years, the reason C&A isn't in 3D, and why James Bond looks good in a cowboy hat.
