Escape Artists and comic book powerhouse Platinum Studios are teaming up for some sci-fi escapism with the high-concept tentpole Cowboys and Aliens for Columbia Pictures. Sahara writers Joshua Oppenheimer and Thomas Donnelly have come on board to adapt the project, which is set within Platinum's comic book "macroverse" of more than 1,000 characters. Escape Artists' Jason Blumenthal, Todd Black, Steve Tisch and David Alper will produce in association with Platinum's Scott Rosenberg, Ervin Rustemagic and Gregor Noveck. Amy Baer will oversee for the studio. Created by Platinum Studios founder and chairman Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, Cowboys and Aliens is set in the Old West, where cowboys and Indians must put aside their differences to battle an alien invasion.
- 5/12/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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