Josh Brolin is Jonah Hex?

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Source: Hollywood Elsewhere // October 9, 2008

Hollywood Elsewhere reports that Josh Brolin, who can be seen in next week's W., has signed on to star in Warner Bros. Pictures' Jonah Hex. This has yet to be confirmed by the studio, so stay tuned.

From Crank writers/directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, the film is based on the DC Comics title in which Hex, known for having the right side of his face disfigured and wearing a Confederate army uniform, was a rough-and-tumble gunslinger and part-time bounty hunter whose adventures always ended in blood.

Jonah Hex, created by by writer John Albano and artist Tony DeZuniga, first appeared in the early 1970s in the issues of All-Star Western before graduating to his own series in 1977 that ran for about 10 years. A new series was launched in 2005. The character also had a run in the 1990s that combined the Western genre with supernatural elements.

http://www.superherohype.com/news/topnews.php?id=7718

 

[Webhead2006]

Interesting if true

 

[[A]]

and not interesting if false..?

 

[Webhead2006]

Yea he is a pretty good actor, and probably would do hex well. Though i dont know enough on the character besides wiki and the episode in jlu he was in.

 

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Yea he is a pretty good actor, and probably would do hex well. Though i dont know enough on the character besides wiki and the episode in jlu he was in.

he was also in an episode of Batman: The Animated Series

 

[Antonello Blueberry]

May I suggest reading the current series? It's really nice with some very good artist rotating on it.
In the issues from 13 to 15, reprinted in the third TP, there's the latest version of his origins.
http://www.dccomics.com/dcu/graphic_novels/?gn=8198

 

[Keyser Soze]

Josh Brolin is a really good choice for Jonah Hex.

What a weird day. First, my top choice for The Flash might be Green Lantern. Now, one of my candidates for Green Lantern might be Jonah Hex!

 

[Eddie Dean]

Yeah, along with Gosling this is a great choice.

 

[Lobo]

First the Gosling rumor, and now Brolin as Jonah? **** yeah Man I hope these come true gives me a lot of faith in the upcoming DC movies

 

[Antonello Blueberry]

Courtesy of SlashFilm

 

[Man of Tomorrow]

Unlike Gosling for Hal,

Josh Brolin for Jonah Hex is GREAT casting.

 

[Keyser Soze]

Unlike Gosling for Hal,

Josh Brolin for Jonah Hex is GREAT casting.

I think both are great casting, as both are excellent actors potentially headlining films I'm already anticipating.

 

[Spider-Fan83]

abit of a type cast, but, I could see it

 

[Ronny Shade]

good casting. Not very out there, but solid. Brolin rocks.

 

[cerealkiller182]

NIce. I could see Brolin working real nice. It annoys me I never thought of that actually. I love Brolin and Hex. Its a Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man kinda situation, "I should have thought of that" sorta thing. I was pulling for Sean Bean but this is equally good

 

[Ronny Shade]

Sean Bean's too Irish.

 

[Philly Phanboy]

There'd better be a lot of No Country for Old Men fans buying tickets for this, otherwise it'll be straight to the DVD clearance bin at the video store. I don't think Josh has enough star power for this.

 

[Keyser Soze]

There'd better be a lot of No Country for Old Men fans buying tickets for this, otherwise it'll be straight to the DVD clearance bin at the video store. I don't think Josh has enough star power for this.

Josh Brolin has plenty of star power for this. Is he an A-list megastar whose name alone greenlight a film? No. But he IS a highly talented actor who has shown before he can be a leading man, and is a good fit for the character. And that's all "Jonah Hex" needs.

 

[Philly Phanboy]

When was the last time anybody has ever said "hey let's go out and see that new Josh Brolin movie"?

Westerns are a niche market, so are comic book movies; they need somebody bigger like a Viggo Mortensen who has established a fanbase among both western and fantasy genres.

 

[Ronny Shade]

When was the last time anybody has ever said "hey let's go out and see that new Josh Brolin movie"?

Westerns are a niche market, so are comic book movies; they need somebody bigger like a Viggo Mortensen who has established a fanbase among both western and fantasy genres.

I said that about No Country

seriously.

 

[Keyser Soze]

When was the last time anybody has ever said "hey let's go out and see that new Josh Brolin movie"?

Westerns are a niche market, so are comic book movies; they need somebody bigger like a Viggo Mortensen who has established a fanbase among both western and fantasy genres.

When was the last time anybody has ever said "hey let's go out and see that new Tobey Maguire movie"? No wonder putting him in a niche-market comic book movie like "Spider-Man" led to it going straight to the DTV clearance bin....oh, oh wait...

The time of stunt-casting in the A-list megabucks megastars to make up for studios' lack of faith in comic book movies seems to have passed. This is why Tom Cruise in Iron Man became Robert Downey Jr in Iron Man (oh man, Robert Downey Jr, when was the last time people flocked to see the new Robert Downey Jr movie?). This is why we now have the likes of Heath Ledger and Aaron Eckhart as our Batman villains rather than Jim Carrey and Arnold Schwarzenegger. The best way to make these comic films as good as possible, is to cast legit actors in the roles.

I'm not talking about going for total inexperienced unknowns. Josh Brolin may not be a huge box office draw, but he is a respected actor, who brings added legitimacy to the project, and who you know is talented enough to actually give a great performance in the role. Viggo Mortensen is the same type of actor, actually. It's not like the film is a surefire flop with Brolin, but will break records with Mortensen. If Appaloosa is anything to go by, a Viggo Mortensen western is hardly guaranteed money.

 

[Ronny Shade]

Spider-Man is Spider-Man, though. Most people have no idea who Jonah Hex is.

 

[Lobo]

And, they could always cast a bigger name than Brolin as the villain Quentin Turnbull. A name that will draw the general audience.

 

[Keyser Soze]

Spider-Man is Spider-Man, though. Most people have no idea who Jonah Hex is.

Joe-Blo Public didn't know who Iron Man was either. But that did pretty well without an A-list superstar in the lead.

Of course, Jonah Hex is another few steps down in the obscurity scale. But by all accounts, this isn't supposed to be some huge summer tentpole movie that needs to recoup a monstrous budget. It's a wild, high-concept, action-packed Western by the people who brought you the wild, high-concept, action-packed Crank. I'm sure that's how it'll be marketed.

And if the script review is anything to go by, a big selling point will be the badassness of Jonah Hex himself. So casting a strong actor that can bring that to life (which Brolin is) is all the film needs. It's not like you're going to need to make "Will Smith is Jonah Hex" to stop the film running at a huge loss.

 

[cerealkiller182]

Sean Bean's too Irish.

Actually hes English and hes got a good American accent