{"id":3117,"date":"2009-02-12T13:01:13","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T18:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=3117"},"modified":"2018-12-08T23:48:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T04:48:11","slug":"brolin-to-shoot-it-out-with-malkovich-in-jonah-hex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/12\/brolin-to-shoot-it-out-with-malkovich-in-jonah-hex\/","title":{"rendered":"Brolin To Shoot It Out With Malkovich In JONAH HEX"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"jonahhex\"<\/a>John Malkovich will be strapping on some six-shooters to take on Josh Brolin in Warner Brothers upcoming adaptation of the DC Comics anti-hero Jonah Hex<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Brolin is set to play the roving, Old West gunslinger Jonah Hex. Variety<\/em><\/a> describes Malkovich’s role thusly- “Malkovich will play Turnbull, a wealthy Southern plantation owner whose son is killed by Union soldiers during the Civil War. He blames Hex, a former confederate soldier-turned-hardened bounty hunter and gunslinger.”<\/p>\n

Jonah Hex is a Civil War veteran who fought on the side of the Confederacy. Moving westward, Hex soon became one of the most notorious guns-for-hire in the lawless territories.<\/p>\n

The movie is set to begin production in April.<\/p>\n

It’s nice to see that comics outside of the usual superhero genre are making it to the big screen. Sure, there have been others non-spandex and superpowers books that have reached the big screen- Men In Black<\/strong>, A History Of Violence<\/strong>, American Splendor<\/strong>, Ghost World<\/strong>, Road To Perdition<\/strong>. While I think that the comics medium has made great strides in getting the public to realize that there is an incredible diversity of genres covered in comic books, I still think there are some negative connotations of the medium out there that could stand to be eradicated.<\/p>\n

Jimmy Hayward (Horton Hears a Who<\/strong>) is directing the script by Crank<\/strong> scribes Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Malkovich will be strapping on some six-shooters to take on Josh Brolin in Warner Brothers upcoming adaptation of the DC Comics anti-hero Jonah Hex. Brolin is set to play the roving, Old West gunslinger [click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106,84],"tags":[7868,21,31,3,1425,1424,1423,402,7871],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-comicsandfilm","8":"category-news","9":"tag-actors","10":"tag-casting","11":"tag-comics-and-film","12":"tag-coming-soon","13":"tag-jimmy-hayward","14":"tag-john-malkovich","15":"tag-jonah-hex","16":"tag-josh-brolin","17":"tag-western"},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t