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Fun Facts:
• For Cowboys & Aliens, advised the filmmakers with Scott Rushforth, a teacher versed in the history and customs of the Chicahua State University of New Mexico and Enjady Oliver, an Apache Mescalero Apache Reservation.
• Producers also inviting the Mescalero southern New Mexico, Native Americans hired nationwide.
• Where land hostile invaders, is the territory of New Mexico in 1875. At the time the Civil War had ended recently in the American west, Aboriginal Apaches, Navajos and others fought against the expansion of the settlers on their land.
• Olivia Wilde, Keith Carradine and Ana de la Reguera, decided to shoot her scenes in which the link and the aliens abduct and for that were trained by the stunt coordinator Tommy Harper.
The actors are numerous and riding scenes during the test period were trained on the horses to many hours would the following three months. Riders coach Clay Lilly worked with stakeholders to carefully pick a horse for each of them.
• The dog that reaches Absolution is played by two Australian Shepherds named Dart and Arrow, both trained by Eadie McMullen.
To help create the atmosphere of the old American West, were used more than 100 horses, cattle, sheep, goats and rats, the same as a Eurasian owl appears briefly in the steamer.
• In the 1870's the laundry or an extra set was a luxury. The production required 14 copies of each outfit, many of which had to do more dirty and worn as the plot progressed.
• For her, there were 17 copies of her two dresses.
• 10 people were devoted to old clothes.
Absolution scenes were filmed at the Bonanza Creek Ranch southwest of Santa Fe, a ranch of several thousand acres.
• Production established its base in the city of Santa Fe, where the company filmed for three months across thousands of acres in northern New Mexico.
Several scenes were filmed at Rancho San Cristobal, 35 miles south of Santa Fe
• Among the locations are in the sights of San Cristobal, Santa Clara town, the banks of the Rio Grande, Lake Abiqui and Plaza Blanca in the hills of the Chama River Valley in upstate.
To film the first attack of the alien invaders, the company brought cattle, double and a variety of film crew.
• joined the cast over 30 doubles and women, 23 horses, two dogs, a goat and two dozen extras.
• There was an array of cranes, cables and lights. Suspended in cars from over 300 tons of construction cranes had sophisticated laser lights that moved synchronously as explosions detonated around skilled riders on horses specially trained to work with pyrotechnics and loud noises.
At both ends there were 14 additional towers 80 feet tall with light boards.
• Shane Mahan was commissioned to design the aliens, part insect, part amphibian, part sea creature.
• Instead of creating a costume that someone uses, Shane Mahan created a complex set of multifunctional gear interchangeable parts. The result was a monster of 8 feet tall with a head that moves to remote and limbs protruding from his torso during some of his encounters with humans.
The visual effects were achieved largely by the supervisor Roger Guyett of Industrial Light & Magic of Lucasfilm.
• Companies The Embassy Visual Effects, Ghost FX, Fuel VFX, The Garage VFX and FX Shade VFX created additional.
• Studies and Kerner Optical New Deal created models and miniatures.
Cast:
Daniel Craig - Jake Lonergan
Harrison Ford - Col. Woodrow Dolarhyde
Olivia Wilde - Ella
Sam Rockwell - Doc
Adam Beach - Nat Colorado
Paul Dano - Percy Dolarhyde
Noah Ringer - Emmett Taggart
Ana de la Reguera - Maria
Adam Beach - Nat Colorado
Clancy Brown - Meacham Pastor
Keith Carradine - Sheriff John Taggart
TECHNICAL:
Director: Jon Favreau
Producer: Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Scott Mitchell Rosenberg
Executive producers: Steven Spielberg, Jon Favreau, Denis L. Stewart, Bobby Cohen, Randy Greenberg, Ryan Kavanaugh
Plot: Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby and Steve Oedekerk
Screenplay: Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzzman & Damon Lindelof and Fergus & Hawk Ostby Markus
Music: Harry Gregson-Williams
Costume Designer: Mary Zophres
Film Editor: Dan Lebenthal, Jim May
Production Designer: Scott Chambliss
Cinematography: Matthew Libatique
