July 26, 2011

‘Cowboys & Aliens’ premiere: Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig posse up

Daniel Craig arrives at the "Cowboys & Aliens" premiere during Comic-Con 2011 at San Diego Civic Theatre. (Alex J. Berliner/AB Images)

Director Jon Favreau, left, Olivia Wilde and Harrison Ford attend the "Cowboys & Aliens" premiere during Comic-Con 2011 at San Diego Civic Theatre. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Actors Clancy Brown, left, Sam Rockwell and Paul Dano attend the "Cowboys & Aliens" premiere during Comic-Con 2011 at San Diego Civic Theatre. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Producer Brian Grazer, left, producer Ron Howard, writer-producer Alex Kurtzman and writer-producer Roberto Orci attend the "Cowboys & Aliens" premiere during Comic-Con 2011 at San Diego Civic Theatre. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Creator-producer Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, left, producer Ron Howard, producer Brian Grazer, chief executive of DreamWorks Studios Stacey Snider and executive producer Steven Spielberg attend the "Cowboys & Aliens" premiere during Comic-Con 2011 at San Diego Civic Theatre. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

It was quite the Hollywood posse — Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig, Steven Spielberg, Jon Favreau, Ron Howard and Olivia Wilde? Comic-Con International has been bringing in movie stars for years now, but the San Diego pop-culture expo has never seen anything like the world premiere of “Cowboys & Aliens” on Saturday.

Favreau, the director of the film and a true savant when it comes to fanboy culture and film promotion, championed the idea of making the premiere a Comic-Con tie-in. It was at Comic-Con that Favreau found his way to the project in the first place (as he explained to Hero Complex when we visited the film’s New Mexico set), and it was at Comic-Con that he introduced the movie to the world last year via a memorable preview panel. If the movie does well when it opens Friday, he might just round up the posse for a sequel that saddles up in San Diego in a year or two.

For more pictures of the premiere, check out the photo gallery at our sister blog for all things star-studded, Ministry of Gossip.

– Geoff Boucher

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