Seems right on the heels of the news that Robert Downey Jr had left Cowboys and Aliens only to be replaced by Daniel Craig (the polar opposite of RDJ personality) we now get news that Olivia Wilde will be joining the western/scifi as a female gunslinger named Ella.
Wilde will play Ella, a woman who joins Craig’s mysterious gunslinger to fight off the aliens. (Is the gunslinger now mysterious and no longer named Zeke Jackson? Curious.) I’m not sure if Ella appeared in the original graphic novel / web-comic. There was a female gunfighter named Verity who traded bullets with the Apache right alongside Zeke. Perhaps she’ll be a variation on that character, or she’ll be a pioneer woman with a rifle, or she’ll be one of the West’s soiled doves like Megan Fox in Jonah Hex.
I am not familiar enough with the comic to know who she is supposed to be playing, but I am always up for a little eyecandy in my action films.
Olivia Wilde qualifies for that, but hopefully she will be more of a character than eyecandy. The comparison to Fox being in Hex for the candy is accurate, but I hope that Wilde delievers something a little more.
