Oh hey, look what based-on-a-comic book movie finally got around to releasing a trailer. I take back everything I said concerning reservations about the make-up (as recently as yesterday!); he looks pretty damn Jonah Hex-y to me. Well, his left eye could be a bit more bulging for my tastes—it varies from artist to artist, but I like when it's frozen wide-open—but not bad otherwise.
All the crazy gun business seems more Desperado than Jonah Hex, but I'm not going to say no to horse-mounted gattling guns and dynamite-lighting-then-launching crossbows.
The bit about supernatural powers is rather troubling though. Hopefully that was just played up for the sake of the trailer, in the hopes of selling Hex as a superhero of the Old West instead of simply a disfigured Clint Eastwood-like killing machine of the Old West.
I do hope it's good, though.
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My favorite Jonah Hex story is "Two Gun Mojo" so I'm all for supernatural stuff being involved...
Is there any appeal to Meagan Fox beyond...well, beyond the obvious?
According to Brolin:
"Then the eye thing, that was - I wasn't going to bring that up. Jonah Hex is a comic book, it's drawn. In reality if Jonah Hex had an eye like that, it would be a little raisin somewhere back in his brain, you know what I mean? We thought about [making a computer-generated eye], but we didn't have the money to CG and all that stuff, and we really didn't want to.
I tried is, I pulled it down, and within an hour my eye started to get infected, before I realized I'm not that committed of an actor...that I was willing to lose [an eye]... actually, I fought for it, for a little while.'"
http://io9.com/5520961/first-clear-image-of-jonah-hexs-poker-face
But the thing about the absolutely brilliant Joe Landsdale HEX minis is that Hex himself was just a normal guy who always somehow got stuck in the middle of the supernatural...giving him a new origin and superpowers sort of kills the point...as does giving him his own 'Q'...
Am I the only one who suspects the producers REALLY wanted to do the Jeff Marriotte/John Cassiday series DESPERADOES but felt that more people would recognize the Jonah Hex name? I mean, swap out Hex for Gideon and ...*shudder*...Megan 'I Will Take Your Money And Force My Lack Of Any Worthwhile Quality Down Your Throat!' Fox for Abby and this story could still be told...
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