Hex Movie Gets Heavyweights

Hex is one of those comics that's just durned good readin' with each and every issue.  I'm biased, though, since my formative years were influenced not just by the super-heroics of the spandex crowd, but also by DC Comics' pre-Vertigo era of off-beat yarn spinning in Weird Western Tales.  The current creative team of Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray has one of the most consistently solid titles that take up space on a comic rack.  No filler issues.  No shark jumping.  Simply good writing and great art.  The masses go ga-ga over a book like Scalped, yet I'd take Hex any day of the week and twice again on Sunday.

So Warner Brothers and Legendary Pictures are making a flick about the scarred and surly gunslinger, due out in 2010.  Josh Brolin is set to play the titular character, Jonah Hex, while John Malkovich will play his nemesis, Quentin Turnbull.  Now, if you've seen No Country For Old Men then you've got an inkling as to how good Josh Brolin will be, and John Malkovich as, well, ANYTHING, is just brilliant casting.  I know, I know, westerns have been hit or miss lately (3:10 To Yuma, bullseye; Appaloosa, not even on the paper), but the solid casting and kookiness of the characters, as well as the lineage to DC Comics should make this a winning formula for reaping some box office success.