Action-heavy Cowboys & Aliens trailer lands

A new trailer for Jon Favreau's summer hopeful Cowboys & Aliens has arrived online.

It's mouth-watering stuff, featuring snippets of new footage, but thankfully it's not as spoiler-heavy as some promos.

We get to hear Daniel Craig's Old West drawl in a little more detail, and there's more of Olivia Wilde's Ella (which is never going to be a cause for complaint). We even get a tiny glimpse of Sam Rockwell's Doc.

Apart from a mysterious looking hand, the extra-terrestrials are kept tantalisingly off-screen. And the trailer makes good use of an Audioslave soundtrack to turbo-charge the action.

Check it out for yourself here:

Cowboys & Aliens is shaping up to be one of the silly season's most exciting prospects, and it's due to hit cinemas on 12 August 2011.

Matt Maytum
Editor, Total Film

I'm the Editor at Total Film magazine, overseeing the running of the mag, and generally obsessing over all things Nolan, Kubrick and Pixar. Over the past decade I've worked in various roles for TF online and in print, including at GamesRadar+, and you can often hear me nattering on the Inside Total Film podcast. Bucket-list-ticking career highlights have included reporting from the set of Tenet and Avengers: Infinity War, as well as covering Comic-Con, TIFF and the Sundance Film Festival.

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