Josh Brolin sat down with Yahoo to promote “Dune: Part two,” but couldn’t help himself when he was asked about the nadir of his career, the infamous 2010 superhero movie “Jonah Hex.”
Critics and audiences hated “Jonah Hex” which was made for $50 million and only ended up grossing $11 million at the box-office. It was a misbegotten project from the get-go and it even resulted in Brolin and co-star Megan Fox getting Razzie nominated for their work on the movie.
Some might blame director Jimmy Hayward for how bad the movie ended up being, but, although he had originally blamed Hayward, Brolin now says studio interference is what turned it into a much maligned superhero flick. It sounds like he knew, even when it was in the middle of production, that the movie would turn out to be as bad as it was.
It’s funny because I’ve always spoken about it in a way that I think is disrespectful to the director. I don’t think it was the director’s fault, I think he did his best. I think it was a piece of sh*t film but for many different reasons, and I’m included in that too. But you know we can’t win them all, it happens.
Brolin says Hayward actually “directed a pretty good movie,” only for the studio to take it and make it into “a much worse movie.” This studio interference led to what Brolin describes as reshooting “66 pages of the script in just 12 days.”