Saturday, January 10, 2009

DC Comics' Jonah Hex Coming to the Big Screen

I've loved the old west since I was a kid. I'm fascinated with Wyatt Earp, and have read every book about him. I've even traveled to many of the towns he lived in, and investigated his history. The movie "Tombstone" is one of my all-time favorites.
Combining the love of the old west with comic books, is a DC Comics character, "Jonah Hex." He's a bounty hunter with a disfigured face, that was once a confederate soldier. I've collected and enjoyed all the comic books about him. NOW, DC Comics is making a movie about him, and I'm excited about it! See below.

Source:The Hollywood Reporter January 6, 2009
Jimmy Hayward, who directed the animated Horton Hears a Who! will make his live-action debut with Jonah Hex, the Warner Bros. western based on the DC Comics character.
Josh Brolin is attached to star in the film, which previously had Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (Crank) on board as directors. The duo, who also wrote the script, bowed out over creative differences in November. The studio hopes to put the movie into production in March or April. The character of 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. One incarnation of his comic book series saw the Western genre combined with supernatural elements, and it's this aspect that was featured in Neveldine and Taylor's script. Andrew Lazar's Mad Chance and Akiva Goldsman's Weed Road are producing.

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