Source Variety:
“Iron Man 2” is in the can, and now director Jon Favreau and Robert Downey Jr. might want to play “Cowboys & Aliens.”
Favreau is circling the DreamWorks/Universal project, which has had Downey attached since last summer. Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer and Ron Howard are producing with Steven Spielberg, Platinum Studios CEO Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, and Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.
A summer 2010 production start is eyed. DreamWorks and Universal will co-finance, and Paramount could opt in as distributor, through the exit agreement that Stacey Snider and Spielberg when they moved DreamWorks out of Paramount.
Kurtzman and Orci are rewriting the script with “Lost” exec producer Damon Lindeloff. The trio scripted “Star Trek 2.”
The film is set in the Old West, where cowboys and Native Americans battle in Arizona, until a space ship crashes and a new enemy emerges, equipped with superior technology. “ Cowboys & Aliens” is based on the Platinum Studios Comics graphic novel written by Fred Van Lente and Andrew Foley.
Cowboys_aliens_fleming That graphic novel was published in 2006, but Hollywood has been hot for the high concept project since the movie was first acquired by Universal and DreamWorks in 1997. That sale was made based on a one-sheet of a cowboy and a space ship, with Steve Oedekerk aboard to write and direct. The project subsequently moved to Columbia Pictures and Escape Artists, and then back to U and DreamWorks, and the script has been through at least seven writers or writer teams.
Favreau and Downey will work together again on “Iron Man 3,” which likely will be distributed by Paramount Pictures in its multi-picture deal with Marvel Entertainment, despite Marvel’s $4 billion acquisition by Disney. "Iron Man 2" bows May 10, 2010.
Favreau is repped by CAA. The studio declined comment.
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