Wednesday, March 4

• Jonah Hex the Next Movie for Megan Fox

  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 03/04/2009 by Jim

  Related: Megan Fox | Jimmy Hayward | Jonah Hex | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Monday, February 16

• John Malkovich Joins Jonah Hex Movie

  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 02/16/2009 by Jim

  Related: John Malkovich | Josh Brolin | Jimmy Hayward | Jonah Hex | Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who

Friday, January 9

• Josh Brolin on Jonah Hex's New Director

  Collider managed to cull an update on Jonah Hex from Milk star Josh Brolin, who's slated to star in the adaptation of the cult fave comic -- if and when the long-delayed project ever does move forward. When asked why Horten Hears a Who! director Jimmy Hayward was chosen to helm the flick, Brolin replied, "He got an e-mail to me somehow, someway. He wasn't somebody we were even beginning to look at and I read the e-mail and was completely blown away by it. I had to meet the guy."

  What was contained in said email that "blew away" Brolin is anybody's guess. Perhaps Hayward got his hands on some incriminating photos of the notorious Hollywood badboy and made some veiled threats. Whatever the case, kudos to Jimmy.

  
  

  Posted 01/09/2009 by reelz

  Related: Josh Brolin | Jimmy Hayward | Jonah Hex

Tuesday, January 6

• Horton Director Now Taking On Jonah Hex

  Jimmy Hayward, the director of animated movie and Dr. Seuss story Horton Hears a Who, will be entering the world of live-action movies with the comics/western Jonah Hex, about a confederate soldier turned bounty hunter.

  This news comes only a few weeks after Crank creatives Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor had been attached as writers and co-directors, but then left the project over "creative differences."

  Also attached in the title role is W star Josh Brolin.

  The property comes out of DC Comics via Warner Bros., and will be put into production as early as March.

  
  

  Posted 01/06/2009 by Jim

  Related: Brian Taylor | Josh Brolin | Mark Neveldine | Jimmy Hayward | Jonah Hex | Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who