Jon Favreau directs an all-star forged of actors within the 2011 movie Cowboys & Aliens together with, Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Paul Dano, and lots of others. It had all the things to be a summer time blockbuster franchise, however that didn’t occur. At the price of $160 million, the film solely grossed $175 million worldwide, thus shedding cash for the studio. You know what which means—no sequel.

Ten years after the discharge of Cowboys & Aliens, Scott Mitchell, creator of the comedian of the identical identify, spoke to Yahoo Entertainment to debate what he thinks killed the movie’s success. “It’s interesting: when it debuted at San Diego Comic-Con, the reviews from Variety and The Hollywood Reporter were very positive,” he says. “But the articles that came out after talked about the box office, and because it didn’t do better at the box office, the reviews were different, which I don’t think is very fair.”

According to Rosenberg, Universal’s fixed micromanaging killed the movie’s potential. “Universal announced the release date for the movie without going over it with DreamWorks,” he recollects. “Had everything been cordial, it would have been bumped to the following summer [of 2012] because that way we could have gotten a lot of merchandising going. It was just 11 months without a Christmas in between to do anything. They just weren’t working together on things, and people were pointing hands in different directions. It had its effect.”

There is a light-weight on the finish of the tunnel, although. Rosenberg as soon as once more has the Cowboys & Aliens film rights and has large plans for the story’s future. “We’ve been talking to investors about a new movie,” he reveals. “It can’t be based on any of the stuff that came before, so we have to go back to the source material or create new source material.”

I do know Cowboys & Aliens was panned by critics or audiences (in keeping with Rotten Tomatoes), however I cherished the western/sci-fi combo. Any followers of the movie on the market? What did you consider it?

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