Jonah Hex (2010)
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Jonah Hex's ability to bring the dead back to life and speak to them is confined to the film only. He does not possess this ability in the comic books.
In an anecdote on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (2009), Josh Brolin revealed that he broke and repaired John Malkovich's thumb while shooting a fight scene.
Josh Brolin later admitted that the film became unsalvageable due to its troubled production, but insisted that everyone involved, cast and crew, had sincerely wanted to make a good movie.
During the duration of filming, Josh Brolin could only shave off half his beard to accommodate the prosthetic on the other side of his face. This meant he spent several months walking around with only half a beard on his face.
Michael Fassbender based his character on sociopaths like the Riddler (Edward Nygma) and A Clockwork Orange (1971) antihero Alex DeLarge.
Josh Brolin initially hated the script, but later changed his mind, growing to like its tongue-in-cheek tone.
Josh Brolin was unable to eat whilst wearing his facial burn prosthetics.
John Malkovich wears a prosthetic nose in the film.
Will Arnett was very keen to appear in the film, mainly because he so rarely gets offered straight dramatic roles.
Megan Fox initially turned down the role of Lilah because in the script incarnation she read, she found it to be too violent and misogynistic. She changed her mind when Josh Brolin came on board and the script was re-written.
Thomas Jane showed interest in playing the role of Jonah Hex to the point of having himself photographed in costume complete with special make-up to recreate the character's massive facial scarring. Jane would later lend his voice for the character in an animated short film, DC Showcase Original Shorts Collection (2010).
Megan Fox considers this to be her worst movie.
Composer John Powell was brought on to collaborate with the metal band Mastodon for the film. However, the film had to undergo reshoots and reedits, and Powell had other commitments, so he left and was replaced with Marco Beltrami, whose sensibilities were different and so Mastodon had to collaborate on a completely new score for the film, to their frustration.
Megan Fox's character Lilah refers to her mother as Mrs. Black, and says Lilah is short for Tallulah. Tallulah Black is a character who Jonah Hex helped get revenge on the man who raped and disfigured her. She eventually becomes a bounty hunter and on-again, off-again lover of Hex.
Josh Brolin had wanted Chan-wook Park to direct "Jonah Hex", and believes he would have made a movie closer to "High Plains Drifter", which was how Brolin wanted the movie to look like.
Megan Fox's last scene was shot 48 hours before the cast and crew attended San Diego Comic Con in 2009.
Matthew McConaughey and Emile Hirsch were considered for the role of Jonah Hex.
Due to the film's disastrous domestic box-office performance, the number of countries in which it was due to be released internationally was cut back.
Released on the same day with Toy Story 3 (2010). Director Jimmy Hayward is a former animator of Pixar, and worked on the first two Toy Story films.
Megan Fox's corsets were tightened up to accentuate her 20 inch waist (This was prior to Fox giving birth to her son Noah).
Jimmy Hayward reportedly did an uncredited re-write of the screenplay.
Aidan Quinn shot his scenes in three days.
In July 2007, Mark Neveldine and Bryan Taylor were in charge of directing, and had adapted the screenplay too. In November 2008, however, they stepped down from being directors due to creative differences with the studio.
Francis Lawrence was ushered in late in production to do some reshoots.
The sixteenth film released in select D-BOX enabled cinemas, located in the United States and Canada. In D-BOX's words, the motion control technology "adds to the movie's plot and underlying themes of fear, terror and explosive action by offering realistic sensations during most of the film's action scenes."
Andy Fickman and McG were considered to direct the film.
This is the first comic-book film for Josh Brolin (Thanos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films, Cable in 'Deadpool 2', Dwight McCarthy in 'Sin City: A Dame to Kill For'), Michael Shannon (General Zod in Man of Steel (2013)), Megan Fox (April O'Neil in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)), and Will Arnett (Batman in 'The Lego Movie' & 'The Lego Batman Movie', Vernon Fenwick in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), Slade in 'Teen Titans Go! To The Movies!')
Jimmy Hayward wore a stylized cowboy hat throughout filming.
This film combines three members from Michael Bay's Transformers films: Mitchell Amundsen had worked on the first film, Megan Fox worked on the first and second film and John Malkovich had worked on the third film.
Cameo
Brent Hinds: Vocalist and guitarist for progressive metal band Mastodon makes a cameo appearance during the scene where the train carrying U.S. soldiers comes under attack. Hinds is wearing a U.S. Army uniform and can be seen among the other soldiers. Mastodon, recruited by the film's director Jimmy Hayward, wrote the soundtrack for Jonah Hex.
Andy Ryan, Mitchell Amundsen: The film's gaffer and cinematographer are, respectively, the Stunk Crick barber and the customer he's shaving.
