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Megan Fox to star in Pinoy's "Jonah Hex" film


Legendary Filipino artist Tony de Zuñiga with his DC comics creation "Jonah Hex" during a January 2009 exhibit in Ortigas. MJU
MANILA, Philippines - Megan Fox is ditching robots for cowboy boots, at least for now. The Transformers star is in final negotiations to play the gun-wielding vixen opposite Josh Brolin (Milk) and John Malkovich (Burn After Reading) in the Warner Bros.’ adaptation of “Jonah Hex", the Hollywood Reporter said. “Hex" is a disfigured rough-and-tumble Western anti-hero created by Filipino legendary comic artist Tony de Zuñiga for DC comics in the late 70s. Zuñiga told GMANews.TV in his January visit to Manila that he will personally look after the development of the Hollywood film once it starts production. The Filipino artist kept a tight lip on the film. Fox will play Leila, Hex’s (Brolin) headstrong love interest who will accompany him in search for a voodoo practitioner (Malkovich) who plans to raise an army of the "undead." Directed by Jimmy Hayward (Horton Hears A Who!), Jonah Hex will start production in April this year. In August 2007, Zuñiga quite literally received his own stamp of approval after the United States Postal Service honored one of his works, Spider-Woman, and is now part of Marvel Superheroes’ stamp collection. Four decades after opening the doors to other Pinoy artists in the US, Tony takes a break from breathing life into superheroes and for now, concentrates on his paintings and attending comic conventions where he is rightfully called “the legend." - Mark Joseph Ubalde, GMANews.TV
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