'Dune: Part Two' star Josh Brolin says picking Jimmy Hayward to direct 'Jonah Hex' was 'big mistake'

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Josh Brolin is still mad about starring in 2010’s monumental flop 'Jonah Hex' and claims he will never stop "sh**ing on" the film. Brolin recalled Warner Bros telling him he only had two weeks to pick a director for the film. 

The 'True Grit' actor told Variety that he met the Canadian director Jimmy Hayward, who has a "lot of knowledge" yet admitted that something "didn't feel right." The comic book adaptation starring Brolin as the eponymous bounty hunter is one of the most notorious flops, grossing just 11 million dollars at the global box office.

Josh Brolin still can't get over 2010 'Jonah Hex' disaster

The 56-year-old  'Labor Day' actor said, “I loved that he [Jimmy Hayward] was excited, but he just didn’t have the experience and he didn’t treat it like I would imagine somebody would want to treat it — to run back to their house at the end of their every day and watch tonal inspirations and Scorsese movies or this or that. He would be out partying instead.” 

Brolin added, “I just think we made a big mistake with the director — not to blame it all at him, because that was my choice, that was my bad choice. And then the studio took it over and every time that’s happened, in my experience, it has only gotten worse…That’s what happens when you start cutting to this idea of pandering for an audience, and how testing can bite you in the a**.”

“You don’t know what the audience is going to want. ‘Jonah Hex’ was them taking the movie back and saying, how can we make this the most accessible movie? And they ended up making the least accessible movie,” Brolin jibed.

"I won't ever stop sh***ing on Jonah Hex,” he reiterated, “because it was a shitty f***ing movie!"

Jimmy Hayward apologized to Josh Brolin 

Hayward recently reconnected with the actor, and he even "apologized for his part in the mess," GQ reports. Brolin claims that he believed that part of the reason 'Jonah Hex' failed was because he hired a director too quickly and Hayward did not have the necessary expertise to carry out Brolin's vision for the comic book film. Brolin avoided blaming Hayward who was diagnosed with bone cancer and has been undergoing many surgeries.

Josh Brolin praises ‘Dune: Part Two’ director Denis Villeneuve for showing respect

Brolin is busy promoting his upcoming flick, ‘Dune: Part Two,’ which had a great first edition for the actor, per GQ.

Brolin lauded Dune director Denis Villeneuve as "a great director" with "no egos."

"When you work with great people, there’s very little ego,” he said.