The Last Airbender joins Favreau’s Cowboys & Aliens The Last Airbender star Noah Ringer has been cast of Jon Favreau’s Cowboys & Aliens. The sci-fi Western, based on the Platinum Studios Comics graphic novel, explores what would happen if the traditional Old West enemies — cowboys and Native Americans — found the prairie attacked by aliens in mid-1800s Arizona. Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Damon Lindelof wrote the script for the film. He joins a cast that already includes Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde.