Josh Brolin who became too big for CRANK creators Brian Taylor and Mark Neveldine and forcing the duo who had actually originally pitched the movie adaptation of DC Comics Western character JONAH HEX to Warner Bros to leave the project, has revealed to Collider how he chose their replacement.
He basically liked the e-mail Jimmy Hayward, director of HORTON HEARS A WHO, sent him…
“He got an e-mail to me somehow, someway. He wasn’t somebody we were even beginning to look at and I read the e-mail and was completely blown away by it. I had to meet the guy. I ended up meeting the guy and I think he’s so far beyond most of us in his expertise and his filmic abilities. It was one of those things where I brought him to the studio and I said, ‘I think this is the guy. I don’t know why.’ But I think he’s a brilliant, brilliant filmmaker. I can’t wait to see what he does. So I don’t know how to answer your question, but I can’t wait to see what he does.”
Warner Bros. are so happy to have Brolin for what essentially is a Summer blockbuster vehicle, they are happy to accommodate him anyway they can. Even if they thought Hayward wasn’t particularly the right man they wanted, they wouldn’t have thought twice about hiring him to keep Brolin happy.
Now let’s just hope Brolin doesn’t get bored in the development stages and decides to bail.
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Josh Brolin? Please, let that diva get over himself.
Being pulled along by daddy’s coat tails has gotten him this far but he had only a couple of really good movies to boast about and he only got No Country For Old Men because the Coens first choice, Steve Innes, pulled out due to contractural complications.
Sucks to be Steve.
Don’t turn down too many movies Josh, you might turn down one too many and the offers swill stop coming.