Josh Brolin is Jonah Hex?

[Commodore Schmidlapp]

i would say an 8.5. it is what it is. it's not meant to be deep, but Jonah is a compelling character with some redeeming values. It's not very PC, which is good. Turnbull needs some work; he's kinda flat, along with the other henchmen. His evil plot needs to be fleshed out a bit more with a few more scenes.

Sounds pretty good

 

[JokerLedger]

yeah, the guys from Crank whatever

My friend is in Crank 2 as one of the villains t:
I should ask him if there was any talk of Jonah Hex on set.

 

[StorminNorman]

copying a great comic onto the screen doesn't mean a great movie.

No, which is why I am paying a closer attention to the changes Snyder has made and the film effects he has used.

Again - I went into this thinking Snyder would make a good adaption - I am now convinced he is making a great movie.

 

[Ronny Shade]

No, which is why I am paying a closer attention to the changes Snyder has made and the film effects he has used.

Again - I went into this thinking Snyder would make a good adaption - I am now convinced he is making a great movie.

That statement means more to me that my unwavering cynicism on the project might suggest.

 

[That-Guy]

Is Josh Brolin on a mission to play every redneck part that Hollywood has to offer?

 

[Zephyr Alexian]

The LR script review sounds promising.

 

[[A]]

bumpity bump with news!

Josh Brolin Might Not Be JONAH HEX – Updated with Exact Quotes

Today is junket central here in Los Angeles. I’m currently on break from the Milk roundtables and getting ready to interview everyone in Twilight. But since I have 5 free minutes…here’s a quick Jonah Hex update.

During the roundtable interview with Josh Brolin we asked him about playing Jonah Hex in the Neveldine/Taylor movie that’s being put together at Warner Bros.

While everyone thought he was going to be playing the role for sure…he said don't be so sure. Yes, he thinks the role is cool and he’s contemplating playing the character…but he’s also thinking about working with Tony Scott in his upcoming film. We asked him about that movie and what it’s about, but he wouldn’t tell us anything.

The way he spoke to us about Jonah Hex made it seem to me like it’s a long shot for him actually doing the role. While he spoke highly about Neveldine/Taylor and said all the right things, I didn’t get the sense that the project really excited him.

Also, with the recent string of movies he’s been in, I think he wants to make sure the next project he does is something that’s the perfect career move.

I wonder what will happen to Jonah Hex if Josh officially drops out…I don’t think the project will fall apart, so I wonder who else is on the short list of actors they’d cast….

And one last thing…after the interview was over I told him that I thought he’d be perfect in the role of Jonah Hex and I’d love to see him work with Neveldine/Taylor. While his publicist was trying to get him out of the room, he actually stopped and asked me a lot of questions like why did I think he was great for the role and was I a fan of Crank, etc…

So if you all of a sudden hear that he’s going to be Jonah Hex…I want some thanks!

(...)

Q: You will be playing a comic book character soon. You’re doing Jonah Hex, right?

Josh: Nope.

Q: You’re not doing Jonah Hex?

Josh: Don’t know yet.

Q: Have you had meetings with Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor?

Josh: No.

Q: Do you want to?

Josh: Don’t know. I have a very tough time deciding, except for “Milk.” I don’t know what I’m going to do. I don’t know. It’s a very good time. It’s a very good time and I don’t want to slight anybody and I don’t want to insult anybody, but the fact of the matter is with more decisions comes a little more pressure. For me, I just try and find that thing that really resonates. There’s one thing that Tony Scott’s doing that I love and that I really want to do, and trying to find the timing and all that…

Q: Which is?

Josh: I can’t tell you.

Q: The studios seem to be gearing up for major productions come February and March. There seems to be a lot coming. Is that the reason why you’re hesitant about Jonah Hex because there’s so much about to launch?

Josh: Not entirely. No, no. A little, little bit, a little bit because of more possibilities and all that, but no. I think Jonah Hex is a really, really interesting story. I think it would be risky also, which I like, and I don’t know if it’s the thing to do. Got me all ****ed up now…

Q: Why do you have such a hard time deciding?

Josh: Because it’s my process, man. It’s just like when I play a character. I carry around a memo pad and I write a thousand questions. I like to ask myself those questions before I start a movie so I’m not in the middle of the movie going, what did I do? I want to give myself entirely to the film and to the filmmaker when I decide to do the movie. So, I would rather go through all the crap before that and if it doesn’t turn out, that’s okay. That’s when I don’t worry about it because I know I went into it with the right intentions. I always have to weigh out, why am I going into this? Is it the characters? Is it the story? Is it the filmmakers? Is it the other actors that I can round up? Is it greed? Is it money? Is it the fact that they’re offering me a lot of money? Yeah, that’s nice. I don’t get paid, man. I do the art films or whatever. Character actor, **** that. It’s a nice trajectory and I love working with great filmmakers, like I said. I would also work with a first time filmmaker. If I see his reel and I go, “Oh my god, this guy’s amazing.” There’s a great commercial director in London, Johnny Green. I think he’s a phenomenal talent, phenomenal, so I’m trying to get together with him and create something together because I think he’s an amazing talent. I could be wrong but I think he is. So, I don’t know. You just got that much of my process that goes on in my head just now. This happens for months. It’s exhausting. I’m starting to get embarrassed.

Then at the end of the interview Josh asks us what we think about Neveldine/Taylor…

Josh: Hey, let me ask you guys a question, what’d you think of “Crank”?

Q: Neveldine and Taylor are ****ing awesome. They are just great and I want to see you in that universe.

Josh: Why do you think they’re awesome?

Q: Because they just do **** that nobody else does. They shoot on rollerblades. It’s like the shots that they get are crazy. They’re just exciting filmmakers and they’re good people.

Josh: They are good people. They’re very good people. Okay, I gotta go. I’m very interested in this.

http://www.collider.com/entertainment/news/article.asp/aid/9779/tcid/1

 

[Keyser Soze]

Hmmmm...... seems like the jury's out here, could go either way. But Josh Brolin is a great actor and - by the sounds of this interview - a pretty coold guy, so I'd like to see him decide to do "Jonah Hex"!

 

[cerealkiller182]

Brolin sounds logical, but it could really go either way as him as Hex now it seems

 

[Webhead2006]

Yea i hope he decides to do the film. He right now is just doing what most actors do before signing onto a project. He wants to make sure probably its the project he wants to get involved with and is not a career killer move.

 

[cerealkiller182]

When he came to the end of the interview he seemed like he had one idea of what to say but when the interviewer said something about the Crank filmmakers and pulled a 180

 

[Dark Donnie]

Neveldine, Taylor leave 'Jonah Hex'
Josh Brolin expected to star in adaptation
By MICHAEL FLEMING

Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor have dropped out as the directors of "Jonah Hex," the DC Comics property that is expected to headline "W." and "Milk" star Josh Brolin as a partly disfigured gunslinger and bounty hunter.

Neveldine and Taylor wrote the script, but their exit as directors was attributed to "creative differences." The studio is moving quickly to set a new director, determined to keep Brolin in the fold for a spring start. Neveldine and Taylor are best known for writing and directing the Jason Statham starrer "Crank."

"Jonah Hex" is produced by Andrew Lazar's Mad Chance and Akiva Goldsman's Weed Road.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117996197.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

 

[cerealkiller182]

yea that sucks.

Brolins on the fence and the writer/directors just dropped out. This movie had possibilities and its falling fast.

 

[Webhead2006]

man it sucks to see the writers/directors leave the project. Besides gl this one looked like it was going to happen more then supermax/green arrow film. Hopefully wb/dc can find a new replace and dont lose to much steam on the project. It just sucks we get nothing from dc and all that.

 

[Keyser Soze]

Damn, that sucks! In the interview posted above, Brolin seemed on the fence, but it was the prospect of working with Neveldine/Taylor that was piquing his interest. I hope them leaving doesn't mean everything else about this film falls apart.

The script was great. Reading that made me desperate to see this film. I hope the departure of Neveldine/Taylor as directors doesn't mean new writers will get brought in too.

 

[Webhead2006]

we will have to see if this keeps up steam or falls into the pile of developmental hell like flash/ww are in.

 

[Evil Twin]

Since Brolin is still reportedly attached, it's quite likely that the "creative differences" were between Brolin and Neveldine/Taylor, and WB liked Brolin's take better. Based on the script, it's very possible that when they were talking about shooting, Neveldine/Taylor proposed a pedal to the metal EXTREME!!! version and other parties were imagining something a little more traditional.

The script is still there, so that's a good starting place. You would certainly think that WB has someone in mind as a replacement too.

 

[Antonello Blueberry]

http://splashpage.mtv.com/2008/11/2...pt-awfuli-love-it-as-directors-leave-project/

 

[[A]]

http://splashpage.mtv.com/2008/11/2...pt-awfuli-love-it-as-directors-leave-project/

also..

Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor have dropped out as the directors of "Jonah Hex," the DC Comics property that is expected to headline "W." and "Milk" star Josh Brolin as a partly disfigured gunslinger and bounty hunter.

Neveldine and Taylor wrote the script, but their exit as directors was attributed to "creative differences." The studio is moving quickly to set a new director, determined to keep Brolin in the fold for a spring start. Neveldine and Taylor are best known for writing and directing the Jason Statham starrer "Crank."

"Jonah Hex" is produced by Andrew Lazar's Mad Chance and Akiva Goldsman's Weed Road.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117996197.html?categoryId=1350&cs=1

 

[Lobo]

I'm upset they dropped out. i wonder who the new director will be?

 

[[A]]

I'm upset they dropped out. i wonder who the new director will be?

McG or Brett Ratner

 

[Philly Phanboy]

Since Brolin is still reportedly attached, it's quite likely that the "creative differences" were between Brolin and Neveldine/Taylor, and WB liked Brolin's take better. Based on the script, it's very possible that when they were talking about shooting, Neveldine/Taylor proposed a pedal to the metal EXTREME!!! version and other parties were imagining something a little more traditional.

The script is still there, so that's a good starting place. You would certainly think that WB has someone in mind as a replacement too.

Yeah it definitely sounds like creative differences caused them to leave. Too bad, those guys could have served up something other than a generic paint-by-number comic book adaptation.

 

[Lobo]

McG already has Spaced and that spy flick coming up.

 

[Philly Phanboy]

http://splashpage.mtv.com/2008/11/2...pt-awfuli-love-it-as-directors-leave-project/

So Brolin wants Malkovich as Turnbull? Interesting.

 

[Keyser Soze]

Sure, the years worth of behind-the-scenes drama surrounding “Watchmen” is an epic story in itself, but lately it seems as though an adaptation of DC Comics’ “Jonah Hex” is starting to give it a run for its money.

This morning, Variety broke the news that due to “creative differences,” Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor have officially dropped out as directors for the in-early-development, big screen adaptation of “Jonah Hex” — DC’s resident post-apocalyptic, anti-hero cowboy. And while we could speculate all day as to what those “differences” were, the writing was on the wall when we spoke to Josh Brolin a few days ago, the actor who’s had an on-again, off-again attachment to the lead role of Hex.

“When I first read it I thought, oh my God it’s awful!” Brolin exclaimed to MTV News. “And then I had a moment a week later and I thought why is it awful? Maybe the thing to do is to do the most awful movie I can find.”

The idea of doing “Hex” grew on Brolin, the actor told us, proclaiming that in the hands of the right director and cast it could be a winner. When asked if the “Crank” helmers were still on board, Brolin replied, “It’s all up in the air,” an early indication of today’s announcement that the duo were leaving the project.

According to Brolin, it’s the zaniness of the story that attracts him to the project. “[I love] the absurdity of it,” he said. “It almost allows you to create a new genre. I love going back into the spaghetti western idea and completely turning it around.”

When pressed further if and when he plans on making an official announcement regarding taking the role, Brolin replied, “Soon. In the last couple months I’ve been going back and forth about it. I went back to my gut. Is it a sell out? What is it I like about this movie? … It’s so tongue in cheek. It’s so ridiculous. But once I started putting people in my mind and saying what if I put Malkovich in this role then what does this movie become? Now let’s put this producer and director on it and think about how it plays out. Then it becomes fun. Now I love that movie. If you have a great filmmaker come in then suddenly these gags and characters become interesting.”

...

When I read this, it definitely sounds like Josh Brolin is on-board. Which is great news, helping to ease the pain of Neveldine & Taylor departing. Brolin would be a great Hex.

And before people criticise him about looking down on Jonah Hex... he could have a point. I loved the script. But a big part of it's charm was the high-concept absurdity of it, the ridiculousness of some of the set-ups, and the way it slyly pulled the rug out from under the feet of various Western cliches.