Wild Wild West (
1999) is a
science fiction Western action-comedy film directed by
Barry Sonnenfeld, and starring
Will Smith,
Kevin Kline (who appears in a dual roles as both the protagonist Artemus Gordon and as President
Ulysses S. Grant),
Kenneth Branagh and
Salma Hayek.
In the spirit of the
original TV series, the film features highly advanced
steampunk technology and many bizarre mechanical inventions, including innumerable inventions of the mechanological geniuses Artemus Gordon and Dr. Loveless, such as nitroglycerine-powered
penny-farthing bicycles, spring-loaded notebooks, bulletproof chainmail, flying machines, steam tanks, and Loveless's giant mechanical spider.