Recent news about the potential green light for a Jonah Hex film has been interesting, mostly because it suggests that Josh Brolin might actually possess the Power Cosmic. How else do you explain comments he made earlier this week to MTV?
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.
Can Brolin pick his directors and co-stars now? That’s…awesome, for him, if so. But we can ill afford another Ed Norton. Use your power wisely, Mr. Brolin.
When news broke yesterday that the directorial team of Neveldine and Taylor had walked away from Hex, I wondered to what extent the newfound star power of Josh Brolin may have played a part. Now I wonder even more, though Brolin seems to love the script. Or, more to the point, he loves it now.
Brolin loves “the absurdity of it. It almost allows you to create a new genre. I love going back into the spaghetti-Western idea and completely turning it around.” But that wasn’t his first reaction. “I’ve been going back and forth about it. I went back to my gut: “Is it a sellout? What is it I like about this movie?” When I first read it, I thought, “Oh my God, it’s awful!” 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.”
His most telling statement about the movie has been, also to MTV, “It’s really [about] having fun with a movie and getting a director that’s phenomenal.” The implication that’s easy to read is that Neveldine and Taylor weren’t the phenomenal directors he was looking for. I’m eager to hear the full story, and see who ends up helming the picture. (And I still wonder, despite Brolin’s apparent love for the script, whether that Neveldine/Taylor draft will hit screens as is.)
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I respect the guy. He bangs Diane Lane.
Josh Brolin should play Jesse Custer in "Preacher".
Neveldine and Taylor are not great directors. Based on Crank. Crank is what it is. I watch it when I catch it on Showtime. It's unique, kinda. But I think CHUD overrates it, generally speaking. It seems, however, that Neveldine and Taylor may have been screwed out of their own project. Bet they like Thomas Jane better for Hex now. I don't want to hear a lot more about Brolin. I like him a lot in the last few movies he's down. But he's getting to sound a little like a dick, NOT that I blame him for controlling his career. But like Russ said, we don't need another Norton (or Costner or Demi Moore or any number of powerful actors who fucked their own career with bad choices and vanity first chance they got).
Brolin needs to wait until someone greenlights "Pensacola: Wings Of Gold-The Motion Picture". To quote Troy McClure… "It's the role I was born to play, baby!"
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