Well, yes. Obviously. I’m pretty sure that almost any film you could name (especially as widely discredited a turkey as Jonah Hex) would benefit from being directed by the Coen brothers. Josh Brolin of course worked with the Coens to considerable acclaim on No Country For Old Men and now has their fresh adaptation of True Grit lined up for imminent release. Clearly he loves working with them, though the fact that so many actors work with them over and over suggests that he is far from alone in that.
On publicity duties for True Grit, Brolin said that he preferred this western to Jonah Hex and felt it was a better film. We can only hope so, otherwise this would be a considerable dip in form for the Coens. He went on to say that he wishes the Coens had directed Jonah Hex:-
“I wish the Coen Brothers would’ve done Jonah Hex. I made a lot of other calls, but I didn’t make that one — to my chagrin, for sure.”
As long ago as on the release of The Big Lebowski, Empire Magazine said that “in a perfect world all movies would be made by the Coen brothers”. Brolin clearly agrees, but what do you think? Is he being disrespectful to Jimmy Hayward, director of Jonah Hex? Was Jonah Hex unfairly derided? Do you think the Coen brothers are over-rated? Comment below.
Source: MTV
