Actress Olivia Wilde has signed on for Jon Favreau’s upcoming project “Cowboys and Aliens.” She will star opposite the current 007, Daniel Craig. Craig is taking over the lead role after Robert Downey, Jr. left the project.
Wilde will play a character named Ella who joins up with mysterious gunslinger in an unlikely uprising against an alien invasion.
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.
Wilde stars on the Fox hit “House” and is part of the cast of the upcoming “Tron: Legacy.”
Leave a Reply