Even though Cowboys & Aliens has already started filming, they’re still putting the final pieces of the casting puzzle together, with THR reporting that Mad Men actress Abigail Spencer has now signed on to appear in the movie. It marks her first studio movie role.
She’ll join Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell and Paul Dano in the film, about a stranger with no memory (Craig) who stumbles into an unwelcoming wild west town, where nobody makes a move on its streets unless ordered to do so by the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde (Ford). However the town then faces an attack from extra-terrestrials, and only the stranger can help save the inhabitants. Spencer will play a prostitute named Alice, a former lover of Craig’s character who makes him change his ways.
Cowboys & Aliens is currently shooting in new Mexico under the direction of Jon Favreau, and should be in cinemas July 29th, 2011.