Josh Brolin Says ‘I Won’t Ever Stop S—ting’ on ‘Jonah Hex’ Because ‘It Was a S—ty F—ing Movie!’ But He’s No Longer Taking It Out on Its Director
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Josh Brolin told GQ magazine in a new interview that “I won’t ever stop shitting on ‘Jonah Hex‘ because it was a shitty fucking movie!” The 2010 comic book film, starring Brolin as the eponymous bounty hunter, is one of the genre’s most infamous flops, earning universal pans from critics and only grossing $11 million at the worldwide box office.
According to GQ, Brolin and his “Jonah Hex” director Jimmy Hayward “recently reconnected” and the filmmaker even “apologized for his part in the mess.” Brolin told Variety last year that part of the failure of “Jonah Hex” is that he rushed to hire a director and Hayward was just too inexperienced to execute Brolin’s vision for the comic book movie.
Not that Brolin is interested anymore in taking out the film’s failure on Hayward, who revealed to Brolin that he has bone cancer and has been having several surgeries. “It reminded me [that] you can’t just keep shitting on somebody,” Brolin told GQ. “I don’t know what the fuck’s going on in his life.
I mean, total facial reconstruction, the whole thing.” In last year’s interview with Variety, Brolin remembered Warner Bros.
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