By: MrDisgusting

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Sure you may think everything has been done before... but there are still some cross pollinations that have yet to grace the big screen. For one I'm dying to see more "horror westerns", which could possibly be what becomes the next big thing. Adam Green (Hatchet) is working on Dead West and now Warner Bros. Pictures plans on adapting DC Comics' Western anti-hero comic book Jonah Hex! Read on for the skinny.



Warner Bros. Pictures is saddling up to bring DC Comics' Western anti-hero comic book "Jonah Hex" to the big screen, with filmmakers Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor on board to adapt. Andrew Lazar is producing via his Mad Chance Prods., as is Akiva Goldsman, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Hex, known for having the right side of his face disfigured and wearing a Confederate army uniform, was a rough-and-tumble gunslinger and part-time bounty hunter whose adventures always ended in blood.

"Hex" first appeared in the early 1970s in the issues of "All-Star Western" before graduating to his own series in 1977 that ran for about 10 years. A new series was launched in 2005. The character also had a run in the 1990s that combined the Western genre with supernatural elements.

The filmmakers are not making a straight-ahead Western but plan to develop the character with some of the supernatural overtones in the hopes of creating a franchise.

Greg Silverman and Elishia Holmes are overseeing for Warners. Gregory Noveck is overseeing for DC.

Neveldine and Taylor wrote and directed "Crank," which starred Jason Statham.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

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j.c 4:01am, July 24, 2007 PROFILE - MESSAGE - REPORT Thats awesome! If they do something in the vein of the Joe Lansdale stuff, like Two Gun Mojo or Riders of the Worm, this could be an interesting flick. cant wait to hear casting considerations for this.

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