Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Megan Fox and Michael Fassbender are reuniting for more “Jonah Hex.”
No, it’s not a sequel yet. The four actors are going back for a ten-day reshoot in and around Los Angeles according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures are reassembling the team to work on story and action during the shoots, working in 12 pages of additional script mixed in with some reshoots.
The big-screen version of “Hex” is directed by Jimmy Hayward, who co-directed “Horton Hears a Who.” This is first live-action feature and last month, Francis Lawrence from “I Am Legend” was brought in as a consultant.
The movie originally was scheduled to open Aug. 6, 2010, but was then moved up to June 18–the middle of the summer tentpole season. Some insiders said the new infusion of scenes and money was designed to fix certain problems with the movie; others have said it’s being done to beef up the moderately budgeted pic so that it can stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the big-budget tentpole crowd.
“Hex” is based on the DC Comics comic book, a Western featuring a scarred-faced bounty hunter. The movie centers on the gunslinger enlisted to track down a former Confederate general who is raising an army of the undead and bent on liberating the South.
Akiva Goldsman and Andrew Lazar are producing.
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