{"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":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/jonahhex.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3118\" title=\"jonahhex\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/jonahhex.jpg\" alt=\"jonahhex\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/jonahhex.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/jonahhex-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/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 <em>Jonah Hex<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Brolin is set to play the roving, Old West gunslinger Jonah Hex. <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121104170812\/http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118000028?refCatId=13\"><em>Variety<\/em><\/a> describes Malkovich&#8217;s role thusly- &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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<p>The movie is set to begin production in April.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;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- <strong>Men In Black<\/strong>, <strong>A History Of Violence<\/strong>, <strong>American Splendor<\/strong>, <strong>Ghost World<\/strong>, <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<p>Jimmy Hayward (<strong>Horton Hears a Who<\/strong>) is directing the script by <strong>Crank<\/strong> scribes Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">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 <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/12\/brolin-to-shoot-it-out-with-malkovich-in-jonah-hex\/\" title=\"Brolin To Shoot It Out With Malkovich In JONAH HEX\">[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":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3117"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}