It’s been a little over a year since we first told you about the rumors of a Jonah Hex movie, and now the big-screen adaptation of DC Comics‘s weird western might be ready to film sometime soon. Rumors were circulating yesterday that Josh Brolin might star as the disfigured bounty hunter whose only two companions are death and the acrid smell of gunsmoke—although there seems to be some dispute about that.
Hollywood Elsewhere blogger Jeffrey Wells says the film is “some kind of sci-fi western with CG up the wazoo,” which doesn’t match what he was able to learn about Jonah Hex on Wikipedia, but given that the plot has Hex “tracking down a voodoo practitioner,” it seems safe to assume that the film’s tone will match that of the graphic novels pulp fiction master Joe R. Landsale wrote for DC in the 1990s.
(artwork: DC Comics)