Hmm, that look pretty goo…SCREETCH!!

Updated on April 1, 2009 By Ken Begg 20 Comments

“Will Arnett and Oscar nominee Michael Shannon are boarding “Jonah Hex,” Warner Bros. and Legendary’s action Western based on the DC Comics character.

Jimmy Hayward is directing “Hex,” whose cast also includes Josh Brolin, John Malkovich and Megan Fox. It’s the story of Hex (Brolin), a scarred bounty hunter tracking a voodoo practitioner (Malk¬ovich) who wants to raise an army of the undead to liberate the South.”

Uh, what now?  Since when was Jonah Hex about the supernatural?  Geez Louise.

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  • Ericb

    Ugh, I’m trying to get my head around the idea of liberating he South with voodoo zombies. Does this take place druing Reconstruction? If so I doubt the ex-CSA would want to be liberated by voodoo zombies. Or does it take place before the Civil War? I guess that would make more sense but I’d bet that even slaves would be somewhat wary of being liberated by the undead.

  • Well, Hex’s trademark facial scarring occurred in the war (I think). So yes, this is a “use zombies to make the South rise agin” sort of deal.

  • Hasimir Fenring

    Oh. I thought the title of this entry referred to the filmmakers’ casting of two actors and then Megan Fox.

  • Chad R.

    I believe Hex got his scars for breaking an Apache tribal taboo.

    Jonah Hex guest-starred on a typically excellent episode of Batman: The Animated Series available on Dailymotion: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k3xoTFs2PQF4xy2hwH. Hilariously, it has the same basic plot as Will Smith’s Wild Wild West and is only about ten thousand times better.

    “My heart’s all aflutter.” Heh.

  • Wayne

    “Since when was Jonah Hex about the supernatural?”

    Never, but PG-13 horror films inexplicably have been doing GREAT at the box office so…
    And Hex WILL be aiming for a PG-13 rating.

  • Actually, everything I’ve heard indicates that Hex will go for an R rating.

  • Blackadder

    Didn’t Jonah Hex also “host” Weird Western Stories? That featured supernatural elements sometimes. In his own title, not so much.

  • amazingcriswell

    I imagine the supernatural elements come from the two (recentish) Hex miniseries written by Joe Lansdale. The first features a snake-oil salesman who ‘resurrects’ Wild Bill Hickcok (or maybe he’s just taking advantage of a buried alive and brain-damaged but still deadly man). The supernatural elements of “Two Gun Mojo” are a bit ambiguous. From the introduction, Lansdale misremembered classic Jonah Hex as having supernatural elements.

    BTW, the Batman animated series episode featuring Hex was written by Lansdale. I heartily recommend just about everything he’s written.

  • Anders

    “Riders of the Worm” from ’95 by Landsdale/Truman had a good deal of supernatural elements.

    And at least he isn’t caught up in a post-apocalyptic world, fighting zombies.

    By the way, why do the new postings on the blog keep ending up on the front of the reviews section?

  • Dr. Whiggs

    There’s no “T” in “Screech,” you goofball.

  • There have been supernatural (and even science fiction) elements in the most recent series as well but, admittedly, they are very, very minor elements.

  • Doug

    The supernatural was heavily emphasized in the most recent Hex series. It’s also been touched upon before, when he would cross over with some obscure old-time DC characters in the occasional issue. But it was never brought to the forefront until his most recent run in a self-titled comic.

  • fish eye no miko

    I’ve never read the comic, but with a name like Jonah Hex, I’m surprised it’s NOT about the supernatural…

  • MarshallDog

    “…raise an army of the undead to liberate the South.” Sounds cool enough by itself. But it does remind me of a movie I saw this weekend called, “Curse of the Cannibal Confederates”. Maybe you’ve heard of it.

  • Heli

    “Oh. I thought the title of this entry referred to the filmmakers’ casting of two actors and then Megan Fox.”

    This.

    Honestly, can’t they just hand out pictures of her with the tickets instead of making people watch her “act?”

  • MD — Curse of the Cannibal Confederates, aka Curse of the Screaming Dead, is reviewed here:

    http://www.jabootu.com/vcjanohtwo.htm#c

  • Sandy Petersen

    I am a big civil war buff, as well as a zombie buff. I own many dozens of Civil War books, and practically every zombie movie ever made.

    I condemn Curse of the Screaming Dead as one of the most pathetically inept films ever made.

  • Well, Sandy, since you actually named your kids after Civil War generals (Grant and Sherman I can still see, but I still argue that Hooker was inappropriate), I don’t think anyone will gainsay you on that point.

  • Edda

    Jonah Hex reminds me of an oddity of the Western genre-why did or do so many Western series from the 1970’s or 1980’s in the paperback original sector (Lone Star, Longarm, Slocum, etc.) make it to about 100 to 300 entries, when so few of the other paperback original series made it to fifty entries? Other than Remo Williams, Malko Linge and Gold Eagle (as well as Pabel’s continuation of the Black Bat series), few of the series in the 20th century lasted into the 21st century-when the Western hand started to disappear from TV, movies, and (other than Hex) comics.

  • freischutz00

    I think Mack Bolan is still around.