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In the first "Jonah Hex" trailer, there's one particular item that should give fans a pretty clear sense of whether or not this comic book adaptation is something they'll find interest in. I'm speaking, of course, about the horse-mounted gatling gun, one of the most absurd pieces of weaponry seen on film in the past several years. It's not a concept that everybody can get behind — but it's certainly one that lead actor Josh Brolin was very amused by!

"The gatling gun, man," the actor laughed when MTV News asked him to recount his favorite and most absurd weapons featured in "Jonah Hex." "It's not funny to anybody else, but it's always funny to me."

Brolin revealed that the initial idea for the gatling gun had more than a few design flaws to reconcile.

"The gatling gun was designed under the horse," he explained. "I was like, 'Does anybody realize that when these gatling guns go off, the horse's front legs are going to be shot off? You realize that, right? You're going to have to change horses every time you use the gatling gun!' Our props guy came up with a design that was functional, to say the least."

The gatling gun might be the most memorable weapon in the "Hex" arsenal, but Brolin said that the dynamite crossbow gave it a run for its money in the originality department.

"The dynamite crossbow — that came later — I thought that was a good kind of James Bond-ish addition," he said. "When you go into the old west kind of deal, it's fun to have to in this Robert Rodriguez sort of vein, when you don't have a lot of money or when you're in a genre where you don't have the possibilities that we have now or that Bond had, you really have to get creative with it. I thought that was a good manifestation."