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Wednesday, November 11
Producer Akiva Goldsman is already involved in the production of four comic book movie adaptations, including Jonah Hex, The Losers, Lobo, and Swamp Thing, and now he's attached to a fifth. Goldsman is joining Joel Silver in his decades-long quest to bring DC Comics' WWII hero, Sgt. Rock, to the big screen.
Only, Rock and his "Easy Company" are not going to be slogging through the trenches fighting Nazis in war-torn Europe. According to THR, the Sgt. Rock movie will be set in the future. Previously envisioned as a Dirty Dozen-esque "authentic" war film, the change of time period and locale is said to be reflective of the lack of interest by moviegoers in period war films.
Silver had previously enlisted Guy Ritchie to script and direct Sgt. Rock, but Ritchie has moved on to direct Lobo with Silver so Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend) has been brought in to front the film. Chad St. John (The Days Before) will write the script.
Posted 11/11/2009 by BrentJS
Related: Akiva Goldsman | Joel Silver | Guy Ritchie | Jonah Hex | Lobo | The Losers | Francis Lawrence
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Sunday, October 18
It may be unfair to place the blame for the demise of the original Batman franchise at the feet of Akiva Goldsman, but he did write the screenplay for the Joel Schumacher-directed disaster that was Batman & Robin, a fact that does not escape Goldsman.
What got lost in Batman & Robin is the emotions aren't real. The worst thing to do with a serious comic book is to make it a cartoon. I'm still answering for that movie with some people.
Following Batman & Robin, Goldsman's screenwriting career took a hit. However, writing the screenplay for the multiple Academy Award-winning film A Beautiful Mind helped put Goldsman back on the map and he followed it up with a string of high-profile scripts, including The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, I Am Legend, and I, Robot. Despite Batman & Robin, Goldsman has not sworn off superheroes or comic book properties. Goldsman is currently producing four DC Comics properties: Jonah Hex, The Losers, Lobo, and Swamp Thing.
In a recent interview with the LA Times, Goldsman compared his Jonah Hex to a classic "Spaghetti Western."
[Hex is] a character that has been described as having one foot on Earth and one foot beyond the grave, that he speaks to the dead ... at the same time he is very much [like Italian director Sergio Leone's] The Man With No Name.
For Swamp Thing, Goldsman is hoping to avoid comparisons to the 1982 Wes Craven movie, instead aiming for a tone more closely in line with the classic Alan Moore comic book stories.
We want a film with real Southern, dark horror overtones, a little bit like a classic Universal horror film.
Next Showing: The Losers debuts April 9, 2010; Jonah Hex opens June 18, 2010
Posted 10/18/2009 by BrentJS
Related: Akiva Goldsman | Joel Schumacher | Batman & Robin | Jonah Hex
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Thursday, October 15
In a potential masterstroke for his brand, Giorgio Armani has signed on Megan Fox to be featured in Emporio Armani Underwear and Armani Jeans campaigns, set to hit magazines and billboards in January. The 23-year-old starlet replaces the 35-year-old former Posh Spice (Victoria Beckham), which is the equivalent of trading in a Porsche for a Lamborghini.
In addition to the new Armani gig, Fox is preparing to shoot the third in the Transformers series (set for release in 2011) and next year will appear opposite Josh Brolin and John Malkovich in the comic book flick Jonah Hex, and with Mickey Rourke in the period drama Passion Play.
Posted 10/15/2009 by reelz
Related: John Malkovich | Megan Fox | Josh Brolin | Jonah Hex | Transformers 3 | Passion Play | Mickey Rourke
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Thursday, September 3
Next summer can be summed up simply: Sequels, remakes, comic book adaptations, and 3-D. Wait a minute, that's how we summed up Summer 2009! And Summer 2008, too (well, except the 3-D part).
While there might not be a whole lot new in the mix, here are the 20 titles we'll be talking about next summer.
Posted 9/3/2009 by reelz
Related: Wichita | Toy Story 3 | Jonah Hex | Shrek 4 | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | Iron Man 2 | Robin Hood | The Twilight Saga: Eclipse | Expendables | Kung Fu Kid | Sex and the City 2 | Little Fockers | Dinner for Schmucks | Inception | Despicable Me | The Last Airbender | Salt | The Other Guys | Grown Ups | The A-Team
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Friday, July 24
The first official poster for Jonah Hex was revealed at the San Diego Comic-Con, and by the looks of it, Megan Fox fans are not going to be disappointed by the corset-bound starlet. However, they will likely ignore Josh Brolin's contribution.
Jonah Hex opens June 18, 2010, and stars Brolin as Hex. A scarred bounty hunter, Hex is hunting down a voodoo practitioner (John Malkovich ) who is trying to raise an army of the undead and liberate the South.
IGN saw the trailer at SDCC and called it "a nice blend of the Western aesthetic with elements of horror." From the plot description, that sounds about right.
Posted 7/24/2009 by Ryan
Related: John Malkovich | Megan Fox | Josh Brolin | Jonah Hex
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Thursday, June 4
Take a first look at Josh Brolin as the comic-book-confederate turned bounty hunter Jonah Hex. Our friend Harry Knowles over at AICN received the images from a sneaky onset spy.
The photos show the normally handsome Brolin in dirty Civil War garb, sporting a nasty scar on the right side of his face—a ritual mutilation given to Hex by Apache Indians.
Posted 6/4/2009 by Jim
Related: Josh Brolin | Jonah Hex | Harry Knowles
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Monday, April 27
Some sexy pics of Megan Fox on the set of Jonah Hex have appeared online. The Transformers hottie is starring alongside Josh Brolin and John Malkovich in this comic book movie-western. The storyline of Jonah Hex focuses on a scarred-confederate-soldier-turned-bounty-hunter, but from the looks of the new images, it won't just be a dusty actioner.
Posted 4/27/2009 by Jim
Related: John Malkovich | Megan Fox | Josh Brolin | Transformers | Jonah Hex | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
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Wednesday, March 4
Fanboy fantasy Megan Fox is padding her resume with comic book movies as she's now been cast in her third: Jonah Hex.
According to FirstShowing.net, Fox will play Leila, a gun-wielding beauty and love interest of Hex, a disfigured bounty hunter who is tracking down a voodoo practitioner that wants to raise an army of undead to liberate the South.
The movie that first brought her attention was 2007's blockbuster Transformers, and she is reprising her role in this year's sequel.
It was announced late last year that she will star in Jimmy Hayward's adaptation of Fathom, a comic book movie about a race of aquatic humanoids who possess the ability to control water.
Posted 3/4/2009 by Jim
Related: Megan Fox | Jonah Hex | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | Jimmy Hayward
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Wednesday, February 25
ERCBoxOffice reports that Warner Bros. has announced official release dates for several movies, including the DC Comic adaptation of Green Lantern, which just recently nabbed director Martin Campbell, and will arrive December 17, 2010, months after First Avenger: Captain America and Thor have hit theaters. So instead of competing with Marvel's comic book movies of the summer, Green Lantern will attempt to capitalize on the success or failures of Marvel's Avengers movies.
Not that Warner Bros. isn't trying to compete with Marvel's Avengers movies, just not with Green Lantern. Instead, Christopher Nolan's Inception will go head-to-head with Thor on July 16, 2010, with Josh Brolin as DC's gun-for-hire Jonah Hex following less than a month later on August 6. The Avengers will also get some competition from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II when they both open on July 15, 2011.
With Green Lantern set as Warner's December blockbuster or 2010, Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes is set for this year, bumped to December 25 rather than the original release date of November 13.
Other notable movies include The Incredible Hulk director Louis Leterrier's Clash of the Titans which will fight for box office dominance on March 26, 2010, while Zack Snyder's Watchmen follow-up, Sucker Punch, an action movie with an "all-girl" cast that Snyder describes as "crazier than anything" he's ever done, opens with a "definite" R rating on October 8, 2010.
Posted 2/25/2009 by Ryan
Related: Guy Ritchie | Christopher Nolan | Josh Brolin | Louis Leterrier | Martin Campbell | Jonah Hex | Thor | Green Lantern | The Incredible Hulk | Watchmen | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | Sherlock Holmes | First Avenger: Captain America | The Avengers | Zack Snyder | Clash of the Titans
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Monday, February 16
Josh Brolin's Jonah Hex movie now has another awesome actor joining its ranks. John Malkovich has joined the upcoming adaptation about the comic book cowboy and Confederate bounty hunter.
Not surprisingly, Malkovich will be playing antagonist Quentin Turnbull, who's also known as the man with the eagle-topped cane. Turnbull's son was one of Jonah Hex's military mates in the Civil War, but was killed by Union soldiers who pinned the murder on Jonah, saying he was traitor to the Confederacy. Revenge over his son's death is what sets Malkovitch's character after Hex.
The movie is still in pre-production but will be directed by Horton Hears A Who! helmer, Jimmy Hayward.
Posted 2/16/2009 by Jim
Related: John Malkovich | Josh Brolin | Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who | Jonah Hex | Jimmy Hayward