The creative minds behind Transformers and Star Trek are doing their homework for this genre-hopping comic-to-film adaptation!
The writing "dynamic duo" of Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman have turned kids toys into a billion-dollar franchise and breathed new life into Star Trek by going back to the concepts that made the original series popular. For their next project, Orci and Kurtzman are going back to the "Wild Wild West" to adapt Platinum Studios' Cowboys and Aliens into a major motion picture.
Director Jon Favreau is helming the comic-to-film adaptation and the writing duo couldn't be happier working with the man who turned Iron Man into a worldwide phenomenon. Said Orci:
"We just started and we’re getting along really well. We’ve sent ourselves back to school and we’re watching Westerns together and analyzing them. We’re just getting into it.
And, Star Trek was originally pitched as a space Western, anyway, so it was a nice lead up to this, for us."
Kurtzman added:
"I think Jon [Favreau] also comes from a very similar emotional place and, because he’s an actor, he knows what plays and what doesn’t play very quickly. We’re having an unbelievably good time working with him."
Cowboys and Aliens tells the story of how cowboys and Apaches put their differences aside to combat an alien invasion in the mid-1800's. Robert Downey Jr. is in talks to star in the film.
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