From President To Bounty Hunter

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W. star Josh Brolin is in talks to star in Jonah Hex, Warner Bros.’ adaptation of the DC Comics property.

Crank writer-directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor wrote the script and will direct.

On Wednesday, both WB and Brolin’s reps denied that a deal was close, but sources said he’s likely to take the job.

Hex, whose face is partly disfigured, is a gunslinger and bounty hunter. The series was hatched by DC in the early 1970s.

The film is being produced by Andrew Lazar’s Mad Chance and Akiva Goldsman’s Weed Road. Lazar’s in production on a Cats & Dogs sequel for the studio, and Goldsman, who last produced Hancock, is developing several films for WB including a prequel to I Am Legend that D.B. Weiss is scripting, with Goldsman producing with James Lassiter.

Brolin follows the Oliver Stone-directed W. with Milk, the Gus Van Sant-directed drama that casts Brolin as Dan White, the San Francisco pol who gunned down Harvey Milk and George Moscone.

Credit: Variety

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