Brian Grazer has been producing television programs and feature films for over a quarter-of-a-century. In that time, he has produced a lot of gems, but he also admits to having “a lot of mulligans” as well. One such mulligan would be the 2011 sci-fi/western mashup Cowboys & Aliens. While promoting his new book A Curious Mind at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Glazer said, “I don’t like cowboys, or aliens! But there were a lot of superstars involved with it—Ron Howard; Steven Spielberg; the director of Iron Man, Jon Favreau. I remember having this one meeting, an early meeting, and they’re talking about the title, Cowboys and Aliens. I said, ‘We aren’t really calling it that, are we?’ The others said ‘Yeah, of course we are!’ I was going, I don’t get this at all.”
