By SiewaunReference: Variety
Adam Beach "Flags of Our Fathers" has joined Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell and Paul Dano in DreamWorks' and Universal's "Cowboys and Aliens".
Jon Favreau will direct from the script co-written by Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof, which is based on the 2006 graphic novel series created by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg.
Movie is about the Apache Indians and Western settlers who lay their differences aside and teamed up against an alien species that lands in their city with bad intentions.
Beach will star as Nat Colorado, a half-Apache who works for Woodrow Dollarhyde (Ford).
Imagine Entertainment's co- founder Ron Howard and Brian Grazer are co-producing alongside Steven Spielberg, Rosenberg through his Platinum Studios banner, Orci and Kurtzman.
Shooting is scheduled to begin this summer, and will be released in June 24, 2011.