FILM · 2010
Jonah Hex
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- #001
During filming, Josh Brolin could only shave half of his beard to accommodate the prosthetic on the other side of his face. This meant he walked around with only half a beard on his face for several months.
- #002
Josh Brolin later admitted that the film became unsalvageable due to its troubled production, but insisted that everyone, including the cast and crew, sincerely wanted to make a good film.
- #003
Jonah Hex's ability to bring the dead back to life and speak with them is limited to the film only. He does not have this ability in the comics.
- #004
In an anecdote on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (2009), Josh Brolin revealed that John Malkovich broke his thumb while filming a fight scene and had it repaired.
- #005
Josh Brolin initially hated the script but later changed his mind and came to love its playful tone.
- #006
Michael Fassbender based his character on sociopaths such as the Riddler (Edward Nygma) and Alex DeLarge, the antihero of A Clockwork Orange (1971).
- #007
Will Arnett was very eager to take a role in the film because he was rarely offered dramatic roles directly.
- #008
Matt LeBlanc is credited as an executive producer in the titles. In a 2011 interview with the Los Angeles Times, LeBlanc explained how this came about: "The way things went is very strange. When I was doing Joey (2004), there was a production deal at Warner Bros. alongside this deal, so I had my own production company, and I really enjoyed it. If I could go back, I might consider developing projects only for myself, so I could be more interested in the work and maybe enjoy it more. But developing shows, just to be a producer, involves a lot of meetings that mean nothing, and Jonah Hex was one of them. It went and came back after my company closed its doors, but I still own the rights as a producer. So I got this credit and the fee and said 'Hey, right away.'".
- #009
Josh Brolin could not eat because he was wearing the burn prosthetic on his face.
- #010
Josh Brolin wanted Park Chan-wook to direct "Jonah Hex" and believed he could make a film closer to High Plains Drifter (1973), which is how Brolin wanted the film to look.
- #011
The dog had to spend an hour in the makeup chair to achieve its mixed-breed appearance.
- #012
Thomas Jane showed enough interest in playing Jonah Hex to pose for photos in costume, completed with special makeup to recreate the character's massive facial scar. Jane would later voice the character in the animated short film DC Showcase Animated Original Shorts Collection (2010).
- #013
John Malkovich wears a prosthetic nose in the film.
- #014
(At about 11 minutes) The vocalist and guitarist of the progressive metal band Mastodon plays a small role in the scene where the train carrying US soldiers is attacked. Hinds wears a US Army uniform and can be seen among the other soldiers. Mastodon, hired by the film's director Jimmy Hayward, wrote the score for Jonah Hex.
- #015
Composer John Powell was hired to collaborate with the metal band Mastodon on the film. However, the film had to go through reshoots and re-edits, and Powell had other commitments, so he left and was replaced by Marco Beltrami, whose sensibilities were different, and as a result Mastodon, frustrated, had to collaborate on entirely new music for the film.
- #016
Megan Fox considers this her worst film.
- #017
Megan Fox initially turned down the role of Lilah because she found the incarnation of the script she read too violent and misogynistic. She changed her mind when Josh Brolin joined the team and the script was rewritten.
- #018
Due to the film's disastrous domestic box office performance, the number of countries where it would be released internationally was reduced.
- #019
Aidan Quinn shot his scenes in three days.
- #020
Megan Fox's corsets were tightened to emphasize her 20-inch waist. This was before Fox gave birth to her son Noah.
- #021
Matthew McConaughey and Emile Hirsch were considered for the role of Jonah Hex.
- #022
The film's chief and cinematographer, Andy Ryan and Mitchell Amundsen, respectively appear as Stunk Crick's barber and the customer he shaves (roughly 6 minutes).
- #023
Jimmy Hayward reportedly made a change to the script without being involved in its rewrite.
- #024
Josh Brolin was later considered to play Batman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), in which Jeffrey Dean Morgan played Thomas Wayne.
- #025
In July 2007, Mark Neveldine and Bryan Taylor were set to direct and had also adapted the script. However, in November 2008 they left the directing job due to creative differences with the studio.
- #026
It was the first film co-produced by DC Entertainment.
- #027
It was released on the same day as Toy Story 3 (2010). Director Jimmy Hayward is a former Pixar animator and worked on the first two Toy Story films.
- #028
This was the first comic book film for Josh Brolin (Thanos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films, Cable in Deadpool 2 (2018), Dwight McCarthy in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)), 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 (2014) and The Lego Batman Movie (2017), Vernon Fenwick in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), Slade in the Teen Titans GO! movies (2018)).
- #029
Francis Lawrence was brought in toward the end of production to shoot some reshoots.
- #030
Andy Fickman and McG were considered to direct the film.
- #031
It was the sixteenth film to be released in select D-BOX-equipped theaters in the United States and Canada. According to D-BOX, the motion-control technology "delivers realistic sensations throughout most of the film's action scenes, contributing to the film's story and its underlying themes of horror, terror and explosive action."
- #032
Jimmy Hayward wore a stylized cowboy hat throughout the shoot.
- #033
The film brings together three members of Michael Bay's Transformers films: Mitchell Amundsen worked on the first film, Megan Fox on the first and second, and John Malkovich on the third.
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