“A phantasmagoria of insanity” is how Josh Brolin has described the movie version of the 1970s-era DC comic series Jonah Hex,
in which the actor plays the title character, a disfigured ex–Confederate soldier turned bounty hunter.
Megan Fox plays his longtime prostitute love interest,
and John Malkovich is the wacko terrorist obsessed with how badly
the Civil War turned out.
The supernatural-tinged action movie is directed by former animator Jimmy Hayward,
features a musical score by Mastodon and sports an off-center supporting cast
that includes Will Arnett as a Union soldier, Michael Shannon as a snake-oil-selling carny,
Michael Fassbender as Malkovich’s tattooed henchman and Aidan Quinn as President William McKinley.
Brolin, who spent three hours daily in makeup to perfect his badly scarred
spaghetti Western look, has praised the project’s “absurd elements.”
“The sex scene is pretty risqué and nerveracking,”
he told The New York Times of his scene with Fox.
“It’s hard to act when you’re naked.”
