Daniel Craig and Olivia Wilde to star in the Sci-fi Western “Cowboys & Aliens”

// February 2nd, 2010 // What's Poppin

Olivia Wilde who played the crazy, sexy, sucia on FOX’s “House” is in negotiations to star opposite Daniel Craig in the sci-fi Western “Cowboys & Aliens,” which Jon Favreau is directing for DreamWorks Studios.

Wilde will play a character named Ella who joins up with mysterious gunslinger in an unlikely uprising against an alien invasion.

Craig is playing the gunslinger, taking over the role from Robert Downey Jr., who dropped this bitch in January.

Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are producing and wrote the script with “Lost” co-creator Damon Lindelof. Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer are also producing along with Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, who created the graphic novel upon which the movie is based.

Favreau and Denis Stewart are serving as executive producers.

Wilde appears weekly on Fox’s hit series “House.” Her next big-screen appearance will be in Disney “Tron Legacy,” hitting theaters in December. She also will be seen in the Lionsgate thriller “The Next Three Days