1. Josh Brolin has been quite clear about his thoughts on his film “Jonah Hex” over the years, telling Variety, “It was not successful creatively or monetarily. I mean, everybody knows how I feel about ‘Jonah Hex.‘” He said in 2024, “I won’t ever stop shitting on ‘Jonah Hex’ because it was a shitty fucking movie!” Brolin had previously blamed much of the problem on his hiring of an inexperienced director, Jimmy Hayward; he’d done so after being rushed by the studio to pick someone within two weeks. “I just think we made a big mistake with the director — not to blame it all at him, because that was my choice, that was my bad choice.”
“And then the studio took it over, and every time that’s happened, in my experience, it has only gotten worse. That’s what happens when you start cutting to this idea of pandering for an audience, and how testing can bite you in the ass,” he continued. “You don’t know what the audience is going to want. ‘Jonah Hex’ was them taking the movie back and saying, how can we make this the most accessible movie? And they ended up making the least accessible movie.” On another occasion, he said he “hated” making the film. “The experience of making it – that would have been a better movie based on what we did. As opposed to what ended up happening to it, which is going back and reshooting 66 pages in 12 days.”
