Everyone — including me — is looking forward to Robert Downey Jr.’s next projects. According to The Hollywood Reporter, he’s in talks to star in DreamWorks/Universal’s Cowboys & Aliens, a sci-fi/western flick scheduled for release in 2010.
Based on a graphic novel by Fred Van Lente and Andrew Foley (who’s skeptical the movie will ever happen, he writes on his site), the story centers on an Old West battle between the Apache and Western settlers, including a former Union Army gunslinger named Zeke Jackson (Downey), that’s interrupted by a spaceship crashing into the prairie near Silver City, Arizona.
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Ok, it sounds a little hokey, but with the right people in front of and behind the cameras, it could work. And with Imagine Entertainment partners Brian Grazer and Ron Howard producing, along with Steven Spielberg and others, I’m thinking all will be well.
This will be Downey’s first deal since catapulting Marvel Studios’ Iron Man to $500 million-plus in worldwide cash. He’ll next be seen in the Dreamworks comedy Tropic Thunder in August, followed by the drama The Soloist in November, a DreamWorks/Universal co-production.
Image: Robert Downey, Jr., Iron Man, Paramount Pictures, 2008
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