Beach Battles Aliens

Adam Beach, who appeared in war pics such as Flags Of Our Fathers and Windtalkers, joins the cast of Jon Favreau’s graphic novel adaptation Cowboys & Aliens

Based upon the graphic novel by Fred Van Lente and Andrew Foley, the story follows cowboys and Native Americans rising up against an alien invasion.

Beach will co-star a half Apache who joins forces with the town's residents to stop the alien threat says Variety

Daniel Craig, Olivia Wilde, Harrison Ford Sam Rockwell Paul Dano, Keith Carradine and Clancy Brown also star.

Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, who are executive producers on the project, wrote the adapted script along with Damon Lindelof.

Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer are producing the pic

Shooting kicks off in this month.