"DC, don't kill off another legendary comic book hero!"

If you really want to get into the guts of this and get it done the right way and seriously make the audience reel with excitement... too much time has been spent on debating the perfect script, pushing for a better and more elaborate Hex than anyone could imagine. I was trying to do a Hex better than Tombstone, with a easy style of Deadwood, with a grittiness of Seraphim Falls. If done in the right way, Hex would have been the Colossus of the West. But you have to build his character from the start. Hex would have been known as the "Red Headed Warrior." He will be known for his Apache war cries and for the Native American warriors that stood at the time this county was taken over. It should show that Hex grew up in the Indian Movement, being a man of the people, falling in love with their ways, learning to be a man and what is important to stand up for.

I not only have a script, I have Hex footage built up from the civil war to his bounty hunter days and short films to display on the Internet.

If you want a super hero and supernatural style, I would add the martial arts to a tall, red haired cowboy and have him flow like the wind through opponent after opponent with a calm flow that will bring him back to his humanity.

The Civil War itself should show enough violence to show the gore and horrific nature of the evil men who ruled and sent young boys to war. And as Hex worked his way up through battle after battle earning his stripes, he bacame a good soldier in taking lives. His instinct is what made him better than the others.

Book 8 of Jonah Hex shows how he got his scar. His love interest ran off with a friend who betrayed him and when he came back, his friend had become chief. And when accepting him back into the tribe, the Chief noticed Hex's behavior to his woman. So he challenged Hex to a duel. With fast reactions, Hex out-skilled his opponent and killed his blood brother. And the Apache way is, if you kill a member of the tribe, you must kill a part of yourself in return. So the tribe members heated up an obsidian tomahawk and dragged it across Hex's face, from his eyebrow to his chin. In my personal opinion, this would be the most important detail to the movie.

People must see that he is a handsome man with a scar across his face. The appearance of the eye is so significant and there is a fine line between having the eye look like a spiritual eye of the immortal spirit or the look of the Toxic Avendure.

...of a person just before they die.

I feel that the first movie should give the feel of Hex's environment, such as the old California Frontier.

Then you can move him from the west coast to the east coast. And that's where Hex starts upholding the justice like a lawman and runs into all kinds of legendary adversities on the way, such as Dock Holiday and Wyatt Earp. Or, you can throw all of them in to make an interesting story, from Billy the Kid to Grizzly Adams.

Just make it interesting... and "interesting" doesn't always mean "bloody" or "supernaturally wierd."

Now, for there to be a trilogy, your first punch can't sink the ship. There must be a foundation to structure Jonah Hex from his comic book characteristics into a film environment. I feel that if you want any depth of the character to be reveled in a movie setting, you don't want to start by yanking Hex out of an intense Civil War scenario and place him in a new setting before his past has been developed. People who will see this movie will vary from the old fans of Jonah Hex to the newbies who have no idea what he entails and will probably never read the Jonah Hex comic books. So having an enriching past for Hex is most essential for the success of the movie. And this doesn't need to take that much screne time. For example, have you seen the western movie Renegade? If you have, watch it again and see how the beginning sets the character. Watch the pace of that film, depth comes out as soon as (main character) whispers "...I see the kid, kid that I was.... I see" and that scene where the eagle flys down over the horse driven carriage along the desert. Watch the part where as a boy, the main character is shot and he passes out and falls off his horse, and all the poisonous snakes are slithering over him. There's no way out for him until the Indian shaman calls the snakes off.

Like the ribs of a skeleton, you want to have a longer story that contains shorter stories. You want to have "ribs" that are like the shorter stories that form the structure. And the arms and legs are the stories that make it move. And the head is for advertisement. And Hollywood can put a flare on the ass.

In the comic book, Hex was one hell of a good hand-to-hand fighter. And that's what I really dig. He just let those punches fly. He had moves, experience to get out of situations without exsessive violence. But if violence was called for, it was controlled. And that's what we're trying to develop with our fan base, because I have a ton of Hex work already done and I was going to give up on it because it wasn't my copyright. And getting in with DC is hard. So my time is a virtue because the acting roll is dwindling with my age, so if I'm going to get a good movie off the ground, I need to find someone to help me get Hex's fan base back... or Hex's character is going to end up sitting in a bathtub with some little gay boy washing his back. And there's too much of that in Hollywood right now.

And I'll tell you what, the hardest thing in this project is to get that eye right on the actor who plays Jonah Hex.

"Watch your top-notch."

 

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