Brolin admits JONAH HEX script was awful
Posted by Matt Holmes
Those “creative differences” we spoke about yesterday regarding the sudden dismissal of CRANK creators Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor from the upcoming Warner Bros./DC tentpole JONAH HEX may well translate as “the script sucked and they didn’t know what they were doing”.
Just ask star Josh Brolin who candidly tells MTV exactly that…
“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.”
And the following quotes are what I find even more interesting…
“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.”
If he started putting new directors on it, if great filmmakers suddenly come in? Does that mean Brolin has effectively told WB to ditch those CRANK guys and find talent more accustomed to what Brolin now expects just to keep him on board? This is something we actually speculated on yesterday and it seems to be true.
And now with Brolin’s name attached, I dare say directors will now be queuing up to take a shot at this property.
I would wet my pants if it were The Coen Brothers or James Mangold. Fingers crossed…
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This project is right in Stephen Norrington’s wheel house. Isn’t he looking to return from his self imposed exile?
So, it’s so bad that it’s good?
I think that since WB approved the script by the crank guys and having read the review of the script at Latinoreview, I doubt the script sucked . Could be that Brolin was too bloody scared to work with them.
They must all be insane. I heard WB told them that they wanted a PG13 rating vand not the R rated that they were going for.
with all that said they better not screw up the best western character in comics todaY!!!!!
[...] with have to decide if another Warner Bros. tentpole, that of JONAH HEX, is right for him to do. I speculated last week, it was him that pushed the CRANK creators off the franchise in the hope of getting a good director [...]