Newswire || By: || November 30, 2010 04:45 AM EST

20 Rejected Titles for 'Deadly Serious' Cowboys & Aliens

Remember that surprisingly serious trailer for Cowboys & Aliens? Well, supposedly we can expect the same dark tone in the actual film. Jon Favreau has said that the film is a straight Sergio-Leone-style western crossed with Ridley Scott's Alien. That sounds great! But apparently Universal is very worried that audiences are expecting a silly action-comedy instead. Hmm. This seems a bit disingenuous considering that the movie is called, um...Cowboys & Aliens. If this is the title they decided on while hoping to market a "deadly serious" film, I can only imagine the list of titles they rejected. And so, in Movieline tradition, here is that list.

(Granted, the filmmakers are staying true to the title of the original graphic novel, but this seems like a pretty weak defense if they wanted to market a serious film. As always, feel free to contribute your own!)

Cowboys, Aliens & Ninjas

Pat Garrett and Billy the Extraterrestrial

A Fistful of Space Dollars

Dark Knight of the Cowboys and Aliens

An Alternate Theory About Western Industrialization

Winchester Vs. Laser

Stagecoach Vs. Spaceship

The Good, The Bad, and the Extraterrestrial

Mars Needs Horses

Close Encounters of the Spaghetti-Western Kind

UFO at the O.K. Corral

The Much Wilder Bunch

I've Been Blowing Up the Railroad (All the Livelong Day)

Hang 'Em REALLY High

The Abduction of Jesse James by Aliens From Space

How the West was ACTUALLY Won

Space Bandits

Wild Wild West 2

Men in Black 3

Blazing Saddles

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