Jonah Hex Screenwriters Blame Bad Box Office on 'Karma'
Last April, Movieline interviewed Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor as they passed the Jonah Hex director's baton to live-action neophyte Jimmy Hayward, and the outgoing duo couldn't have been more charitable. "The great thing about Jonah Hex is that we love the script, we love the actors involved, we love the executives at Warner Bros involved, and we're totally happy being a part of that project," Taylor told us. "It doesn't have to be, like, this whole 'Mark and Brian thing.' We put our stamp on it, they love the script, and it's gonna be awesome." Well, that was then.
Since last spring, of course, the project suffered one setback after another: Francis Lawrence replaced Hayward during reshoots, WB kept the film mostly out of sight for months, and then it was released this weekend to a yikes-yikes-yikes-inducing take of only $5 million. How much do Neveldine and Taylor -- still credited for the film's script -- love those WB executives now? Let their Twitter tell the story in a most succinct way:
Former 'Jonah Hex' Writers & Directors Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor Enjoy Some Schadenfreude At Film's Poor Box Office [The Playlist]
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I knew they couldn't write...but how badly can someone misspell "because our movie stinks"?
What a difference a shitty weekend take makes.
That picture above tells a thousand words.
I think rehashing the plot from Legend of the Lone Ranger, and Wild Wild West may have had something to do with the film's failure.
They should have cast Klinton Spilsbury as Hex and gone all the way.
Seriously. A little less time cultivating your douchebag look, a little more time studying your craft (and by craft I don't mean video games, morons).
They aren't great people, they're bad writers and they're even worse directors. Clearly karma doesn't exist because if it did, they would be slinging burgers.
Seems like paraphrasing Truman Capote is appropriate for these two: That wasn't writing, it was typing.
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