“Jon Favreau likes to describe it as a mashup — he loves mashups when it comes to music,” Wilde told MTV News. “So this is kind of a film mashup. I think that’s cool, and it hasn’t really been done that much before.”

Next time we get Jon Favreau on the line, we’ll have to ask him who he likes better — Girl Talk or Steinski — and whose work “Cowboys and Aliens” will resemble. Wilde talked up all sorts of opposing elements in the movie to back up her mix-master praise. She mentioned big special effects, but credited the producers for maintaining a story-driven focus.

“With producers like Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, these are people who really care about the story, and they care about wonderment and imagination and celebrating that,” Wilde explained. “That’s what this movie’s going to do. It’s going to have awesome effects, but Jon Favreau and everyone else are concentrating on making a great story.”

And above all, she called it “interesting.”

“I think that’s a film that’s going to be interesting for a lot of reasons,” she said. “It’s very different. Western enthusiasts will be happy. Sci-fi enthusiasts will also be happy.”

The DreamWorks projects is based on a Platinum Studios Comics graphic novel by Fred Van Lente and Andrew Foley. It is set to star Daniel Craig (Casino Royale) and Olivia Wilde (TV’s House M.D.) and explores what would have happened if aliens had landed in the Wild West.