News has rolled in that two of next year’s movies are headed for reshoots, with speculation starting over whether this means the films are in trouble. Following some reports of problems at test screenings, the remake of A Nightmare On Elm Street is doing a bit of extra filming. This involves at least one brand new scene set in a diner. If it’s just that, it could be that a bit of story clarification was needed, rather than that the whole thing is a mess, but we’ll have to wait and see.
However there’s a bit more worry over reshoots for the DC Comics adaptation, Jonah Hex, starring Josh Brolin and Megan Fox. While sometimes reshoots are just a matter of getting things perfect or clarifying something that may have been clear in the script but doesn’t come over on the screen, Bloody Disgusting is reporting that not only is Jonah Hex planning a few new weeks of shooting, but that I Am Legend director Francis Lawrence will be ‘consulting’.
Now that does suggest there’s problems, as if the studio has felt the need to bring in someone else to sit alongside original director Jimmy Hayward, it would seem they’re looking for a way to save a movie they’re losing faith in. And while Hayward has plenty of experience in animation at Pixar and then directing Horton Hears A Who, this will be his first live-action movie.
Spoiler TV also managed to find a casting breakdown for the reshoots, and it looks like they’re planning to add to Hex’s backstory, by giving him a wife and child. However as it appears all the main cast members are being brought back in (and John Malkovich’s character is getting a son), it seems it’ll be more than just a case of filling in the scarred anti-heroes past. While it does suggest there’s problems, hopefully they’ll be able to sort things out before the film is released in June.