Dear Josh Brolin,
If you know this project is this bad. Why risk your career? This has “Ghost Rider” written all over it.
We digress. Yesterday evening Variety reported that the original writer and director of the “Jonah Hex” D.C. Comic book adaptation had left the project due to “creative differences,” but that Brolin was still expected to star in the project (though it sounds like with no director/writer now, and rehiring need to be made, this one is way off in the distance now).
MTV’s Splashpage talked to Brolin and he basically suggested every reason why he shouldn’t take the project. But it sounds like his sense of irony is getting the best of him.
“When I first read it I thought, oh my God it’s awful!” Brolin told MTV. “And then I had a moment a week later and I thought why is it awful? Maybe the thing to do is to do the most awful movie I can find.”
What?? Are you high? Brolin has probably just missed his first Best Actor Oscar nomination by playing George W. Bush (he’s cooled off and probably just outside the frame) and now he wants to take his career in this kind of direction?
The guys who were going to direct and write, where the energy-drink chugging and testosterone-fueled “Crank” guys (action junkie hacks) and apparently the film was going to be very wacky and over-the-top (which you’ll know is nothing what Jonah Hex the comic was like; it was mood oriented and dark). “[I love] the absurdity of it. It almost allows you to create a new genre. I love going back into the spaghetti western idea and completely turning it around.”
You gotta love the creative license some people take with adapatations. Why not just add in bears on unicycles and dancing clowns?
The film sounds like a joke and Brolin sounds like he’s into it, but still on the fence over whether he’ll commit. “I’ve been going back and forth about it. I went back to my gut. Is it a sell out? What is it I like about this movie? … It’s so tongue in cheek. It’s so ridiculous. But once I started putting people in my mind and saying what if I put Malkovich in this role then what does this movie become? Now let’s put this producer and director on it and think about how it plays out. Then it becomes fun. Now I love that movie. If you have a great filmmaker come in then suddenly these gags and characters become interesting.”
Dude, the “it’s so bad it’s good,” irony is so late ’90s, don’t do it. Do not trainwreck your career, especially since you’ve been acting for decades and its taken “No Country For Old Men,” to finally get you noticed into getting A-list roles. We’re hope your agent is reading this.
