Olivia Wilde lassos role in "Cowboys and Alien"
Reuters US Online Report Entertainment News | 2010-02-02 05:08:10
<div><p>LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Olivia Wilde is in negotiations to star opposite Daniel Craig in the sci-fi Western "Cowboys &amp; Aliens," which Jon Favreau is directing for DreamWorks Studios.</p><p>Wilde will play a character named Ella who joins up with mysterious gunslinger in an unlikely uprising against an alien invasion.</p><p>Craig is playing the gunslinger, taking over the role from Robert Downey Jr., who dropped out of the project in January.</p><p>Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are producing and wrote the script with "Lost" co-creator Damon Lindelof. Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer are also producing along with Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, who created the graphic novel upon which the movie is based.</p><p>Wilde appears weekly on Fox's hit series "House." Her next big-screen appearance will be in Disney's "Tron Legacy," hitting theaters in December. She also will be seen in the Lionsgate thriller "The Next Three Days."</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=68296212&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>
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