Exclusive: COWBOYS & ALIENS Battle Infographic
The most memorable cinematic E.T.'s of all time battle the deadliest gunslingers in an epic Cowboys & Aliens tournament to celebrate Paramount's new movie.
Cowboys & Aliens was finally released in the U.K. yesterday and whilst I don't want to spoil anything, the film certainly lives up to it's name as the genre mash-up you have been expecting, a kind of three way dance as director Jon Favreau homages classics The Searchers, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and even a bit of Indiana Jones. Now as fun as the concept is, Cowboys & Aliens isn't quite as good as my favourite ever mash-up between a gunslinger and a man from another world - that honour would still belong to Toy Story, but Cowboys & Aliens is trying to hit you on another level. When the film works best it's during the terrifically horrific and uncompromising moments and I can't help but feel when the battlelines are drawn and all hell breaks loose, maybe more accurately the film should have been titled Cowboys vs. Aliens! With that idea in mind, Paramount Pictures have provided us with an exclusive Battle Infographic that imagines a tournament between cinema's most memorable aliens and the most deadly gunslingers from the Wild West. Included in this tournament on the Aliens side are everyone from E.T., General Zod, Dr. Manhatten (though their reasoning behind him being an Alien is the equivalent of saying the guys on the space station Meir are from another world) and Predator and on the Cowboys side... Rooster Cogburn, Jesse James, Billy the Kid and even Woody (Buzz was busy fighting General Zurg to be included). Click the image for a HUGE full-sized version.