Thomas Jane clears up that photo, says he’d love to play Jonah Hex
You may recall the photo that circulated last week of actor Thomas Jane with Jonah Hex makeup and props — and how it was quickly debunked.
But now it turns out the image is real, in that it is Jane dressed as the DC Comics bounty hunter and not a Photoshop hoax. It’s just not a screen test for the planned Warner Bros. movie.
Confused? Let Jane explain:
“Yeah, the pic is real all right -– my pal Akiva Goldsman told me about the project and I fell in love with the idea right away. Being a huge fan of all things Hex -– I just couldn’t help myself. I called up my buddy Chris Nelson and we spent a Saturday afternoon working up some make-up for this impromptu shoot and I fired a few pics off to Warners. How do people get a hold of this shit? It’s a little embarrassing seeing my fanboy enthusiasm spilled all over the web, but great scripts don’t come around too often, especially for characters I love.”
Jonah Hex, announced last summer, is being adapted by the Crank team of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor.
Sony gets a jump on promoting The Green Hornet
Although Seth Rogen’s big-screen version of The Green Hornet doesn’t open for another two years (and two days), Sony Pictures has released a logo and a teaser website for the movie.
Rogen, who’s writing the script with Superbad collaborator Evan Goldberg, said earlier this month that the PG-13 Green Hornet is “a very intense action movie and the relationship between Green Hornet and Kato, a lot of comedy comes from that.”
No director has been announced.
The Ticker
• There’s a new featurette for Wanted, which opens on Friday. [ComingSoon.net]
• Stan Lee and Joe Simon provide origins-in-a-nutshell for the next wave of Marvel superheroes heading to the big screen. [USA Today]
• The Transformers sequel has dropped the “2″ from the title. So now it’s just Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Take note. [ComingSoon.net]
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Jane would be an awesome J. Hex
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:25 pm
I think Jane taking the initiative rocks. You want something, you show people you have what it takes and deserve it, simple as that.
June 24th, 2008 at 3:42 am
That didn’t work for Sean Young when she wanted Catwoman back in the day…
June 24th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Ha! You know, I thought about that. Jane took the classy route. He sent in a visual that really speaks to a lot of who the character is.
Young went on television without a script or any idea how they wanted to depict the Catwoman character. Her costume was also about as far away from what made it into Batman Returns as you can imagine.
Jane kept it simple, visual–Hat, face, gun.