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From http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=5311
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In just a little over a month, powerhouse writing-directing team Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (Game) begin shooting a sequel to their pumped-up, kinetic actioner Crank. Following that, it's Jonah Hex, the DC comics western steeped in the supernatural (original announcement).
"I think it's the best script we've written," Taylor told me during a late-night soiree in Hollywood thrown in anticipation of Pathology, a film he co-penned with Neveldine. Warner Bros. apparently loves the script and understands the tone the pair have brought to this tale of true grit and blood - and if you've seen Crank and Pathology, you know all bets are off and you're in for a unpredictable, f'ed-up ride.
Asked if there was any concern over comparisons between the upcoming "Hex" and Neil Marshall's recently announced horror western Sacrilege, Taylor expresses no worries. "I'm not sure what that film's going to be like, but ours is less horror." Still, he promises, it's going to be plenty twisted.
I'm a big Hex fan and I'm getting a little bit nervous about the way this sounding. I'm afraid they are going to be about zero character development and 100 percent blood and gore. That's not what I liked about Hex in the original series. The stories always reminded me of a Clint Eastwood movie. Sure it was violent, but it was necessary violence. Hex had to fight to stay alive. It wasn't necessarily like some cheap horror movie. It was a western. Now mind you I'd have nothing against a slight supernatural twist, or give the story a lot of irony or whatever but please don't turn it into a horror western.
I saw Crank, and although I had looked forward to watching it based on the commercials but you know after watching it I think it was like the worst movie I've ever seen Jason Statham play in. It was nothing like his Transporter movies which at least had some class. This was action and adventure at it's lowest common denominator. And the ending was crap.
Now I liked the Transporter movies. I'm not one of these stuck up movie critics, but Crank, that one I don't really want to ever see again.
I hope after all these years they do some justice to Jonah Hex. It's a shame they never got Clint Eastwood involved way back in the 80's like Hex fans all wanted.
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