DC Comics’ Old West antihero JONAH HEX is getting ready to saddle up and slap leather at Warner Bros. The horrifically scarred ex-soldier will get the live-action treatment courtesy of CRANK demigods Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, who will inject the character with an overdose of adrenaline and have him running all over the frontier in assless chaps, maybe.
Hex, usually illustrated with no small resemblance to Clint Eastwood’s famed outlaws, has seen numerous incarnations over his decades in print — aside from standard Western tales, he’s been tossed into post-apocalyptic times and had various supernatural experiences (such as fighting zombies and Lovecraftian creatures), which is the angle the Neveldine/Taylor team will reportedly tackle.