Cowboys and Aliens - When will Robert Downey Jr have time to do it?

MTV News spoke with “Iron Man” writers Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, the duo charged with adapting “Cowboys and Aliens” for film to get an update on the project, the rising star of the project’s lead actor and what theater-goers can expect to see in the film.

“As far as we know, it’s all a go,” Ostby told MTV. “We’re just hoping it does because it felt like the right time for this kind of film and I just want to see how we’ll pull off all the cool stuff in it. It’s ridiculous. It’s one of those movies that every idea that you can come up with is actually something you can pull off these days. There’s no reason to edit yourself.”

But now that Downey Jr. is the star of a bona fide comics blockbuster with sequels on the way, have Iron Man’s repulsor rays pushed him out of “Cowboys and Aliens”?

“It’s not an official thing, but I think what they’re getting into now is a timetable for all these things,” said Fergus. “Probably in a little while we’ll know for sure what’s what.”

“We finished our draft and it all seems to be a go in terms of casting,” added Ostby. “I think Robert’s doing ‘Sherlock’ and ‘Iron Man 2′ next year, so that’s thankfully someone else’s problem to figure out how to make all that work, but the script is done…”

As far as the tone of the film, Fergus said it will follow in the “great Spielberg tradition of ‘Raiders [of the Lost Ark]‘ — with a great sense of humor, great sense of fun, and yet total adventure story.”

The “Cowboys and Aliens” comic can be read in its entirety online at webcomics host Drunk Duck.

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