Will Arnett talks about Jonah Hex

Will Arnett with Elmo. Brilliant photo i'm sure you agree...

This is just a quick snippet post as he didn’t go into a great amount of detail about the film but Will Arnett, who is set to star in the Jonah Hex film in an as-yet undefined role was interviewed my Cinematical and was asked a little about Jonah Hex.

Arnett played George ‘Gob’ Bluth II in Arrested Development, was in 2 episodes of the Sopranos and has lent his voice to quite a few animated movies including Ratatouille and Ice Age : Meltdown.

Arnett was asked about Jonah Hex and said :

“You know, I don’t really have a plan, per say. Jonah Hex came up. It was a great opportunity and I was so happy that they included me in that project. And for me, it was something different that I got to do. And who knows? I don’t feel like I have anything to prove in that sense. Again, I am kind of over it. It doesn’t really matter. I am not here to say, “Oh, I need to show everybody, or I need to try to get some kind of serious accolade.” That is not important to me. I really just want to, like I said, work with people that I enjoy and do stuff that is fun and makes me laugh.”

You can read the full interview here.

It wasn’t the first Arnett had been interviewed about Hex, in an interview with Super Hero Hype he said :

“[My character] is much more serious. I hope. Otherwise I’ve failed miserably at my job.”

“I play a guy who’s in the Union army right after the Civil War, I enlist Jonah Hex, played by Josh Brolin, to do our bidding for us and to track down John Malkovich.”

“‘Jonah Hex’ is a very kind of heavy movie, It’s dark and actioney… [A] real fun, dark, sweaty movie.”

Edit 8th February 2010 : One more quote found from the National Post :

“The comic had something of a following in the 1970s. It’s about this Jonah Hex character, played by Josh Brolin, and it’s set in the postbellum U.S. south. There’s kind of an otherworldly aspect to him — whispers of ghosts and stuff — he’s a guy who’s badly damaged. I play the guy who tracks him down and forces him to do the bidding of the U.S. government. It was a wonderful experience.”