Jonah Hex is a 2010 Western supernatural starring Josh Brolin as the title character, a scarred bounty hunter who possesses the power to bring people back from the dead. He is asked by President Ulysses S. Grant to try to stop a vengeful ex-Confederate general-turned terrorist (who is also responsible for the death of Hex's family) from destroying the U.S. with a stolen "superweapon". The film was adapted from the DC Comic book series and the character was also adapted into the CW series Legends of Tomorrow.
The following weapons were used in the film Jonah Hex:
Jonah Hex (Josh Brolin) carries two Single Action Army Cavalry revolvers as his sidearms. Lilah (Megan Fox) also uses dual Single Action Army revolvers as she and Hex fight to escape Turnbull's Confederate ironclad.
Lilah (Megan Fox) keeps a Colt Thuer Derringer in her room for self-protection. She pulls it to get rid of her obsessed client, Grayden Nash (Rio Hackford), who later sneaks it from its hiding place and fires it at her. Missing once, he puts it to her head and fires again, but she informs him that it is a single-shot weapon.
In the imagined fight in Hell between Hex and Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich), Turnbull is seen using dual Remington 1866 Derringers. Hex then picks up one of these and shoots Turnbull twice with it. Lilah (Megan Fox) also poses with the Remington for the theatrical release poster.
One of the guards outside Col. Slocum's (Tom Wopat) fight ring appears to be holding a Winchester Model 1887 shotgun (which is an anachronism when the film is supposed to take place in 1876, the year of the national centennial).
When Hex is double-crossed in Stunk Crick by the local authorities, a deputy hiding in the church's bell tower tries to snipe him with a Sharps 1874 Buffalo Rifle.
While on the Confederate ironclad, Hex is also seen using a flamethrower to take out a few of Turnbull's men.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingWhile on the Confederate ironclad, Hex is seen using a flamethrower to take out a few of Turnbull's men.Error creating thumbnail: File missingA sniper shoots the flamethrower in Hex's hands, making it useless. Here we can see that it's clearly been built on the body of some sort of rifle.
The "superweapon" that is the focus of the film's plot is a belt-fed Gatling-style cannon (similar to an oversized, clunkier CIWS system) supposedly invented by Eli Whitney (the father of the cotton gin). The weapon is designed to blanket an area with a volley of explosive shells, which are then detonated simultaneously by firing a glowing orange "trigger" shell from the central barrel. Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich) mounts the weapon on an ironclad and plans to use it to level Washington, D.C.
Blueprints of the "nation-killer" weapon.Detail of the belt-feed mechanism.Detail of the multiple barrels. Note the design seems to assume a cannonball works the same way as a modern artillery shell; there is no system for replacing propellant charges behind the cannonballs, and nowhere for charges to actually go even if there was such a system.Error creating thumbnail: File missingThe ironclad-mounted "superweapon" opens fire.
