Saturday, April 17, 2010

What The Hex?

Vulture reports that the first and likely only trailer for the comic book adaptation Jonah Hex will probably be released ahead of prints of the remake of A Nightmare On Elm Street April 30th, just seven weeks from the film's release on June 18th. If we see no trailer by then...the film is...

The lack of publicity for the supernatural western flick and a comic book movie at that is staggering. Only one teaser poster and one official still have been released thus far for the film - the only marketing material we've really seen for the film outside the footage which played at last year's San Diego Comic-Con International .

By way of contrast the studio's Inception opening a month later which already has had several posters, more than half a dozen stills, at least two trailers and a lot of chatter.

Vulture recently spoke with Brent Hinds the guitarist and singer of heavy-metal band Mastodon who was initially hired to work with John Powell.on the film's score.

As previously reported, the film underwent some significant reshoots while Powell was replaced by Marco Beltrami which meant Hinds had to rescore much of the film. Hinds says "What I've seen so far doesn't seem to be finished to me... We're still working on it."

Director Jimmy Hayward's dismissed criticism, saying "Trailer and film are looking great".

What a mess! All the evidence points to a disaster...No matter what the happy spin is...If the trailer can't even be cut until this late in the process...

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