Saddle Up and Ride with the Cowboys & Aliens

It's the early morning when we saddle up (aka board a bus) to visit the set of Cowboys & Aliens - but it might as well have been high noon.

We prepare to travel under the blistering sun into the desert of Santa Fe, New Mexico, where shooting on C&A has been going for several weeks. Equipped with a bandana, sunscreen and a borrowed pair of sunglasses that make me look like the out-of-town New Yorker that I am, myself and a wild bunch of gunslingers head to our first Wild West alien invasion.

Giddyup!

After an hour drive into the middle of nowhere, our bus pulls into the company lot. Civilization! Or so we thought. Another bus pulls up to take us to the actual set, a hidden cove located down twisty, turny dirt roads. There's no doubt care is being put into Cowboys & Aliens - hell, they've been building these mountain sets for thousands of years!

We arrive to a sea of trailers and hustling, bustling crew members, all combating long days in the hot sun, make-shift workstations and the potential of flashfloods (apparently there's been more than one instance where the crew had to wrangle there belongings while the canyon they're shooting in quickly fills with rain water. Eep!). Was that an alien arm? Yes, yes it was. But no time for that - we're shuttled into a tent, where our adventure for Cowboys & Aliens really began.

Check out our other Cowboys & Aliens  interviews: director Jon Favreau and writer Bob Orci!

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Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford and Sam Rockwell blow our fanboy minds

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