Collider.com broke the news that Daniel Craig is in talks to replace Robert Downey Jr. as the lead in Jon Favreau's adaptation of the comic COWBOYS & ALIENS. Roberto Orci, & Alex Kurtzman (STAR TREK) and Damon Lindelof (LOST) have written the script based on Scott Mitchell Rosenberg.

Set in the Wild West, Silver City settlers and Apache Indians must team up when an alien spaceship crashes nearby.