Sam Mendes to Direct ‘Preacher’
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- By drvenkman
Since comic book films are the new fad in Hollywood everyone is trying to get their hands on directing one. It will be required of every director in Hollywood to direct at least one comic book film in their career. Sam Mendes who directed ‘Road to Perdition’ also based on a graphic novel will come back to the world of comic book movies with the film adaptation of ’Preacher’ for Columbia Pictures. Variety reports:
Created by writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon, graphic novel focuses on the preacher of a Texas town, who is struggling to get by and is driven only by his strong moral sense. When the city is decimated by an otherworldly force, he embarks on a journey across the country to take on the evil.
Supernatural project is a departure for Mendes, who is best known for tackling suburban angst in such films as “American Beauty” and the upcoming Leonardo DiCaprio-Kate Winslet starrer “Revolutionary Road.”
Sam Mendes has a very solid look to his films and the guy knows how to tell a story so I am confident that he will be able to make a very good ‘Preacher’ film. What do you think?
ok.
so.
love LOVE preacher.
movie????
i don’t know.
it’s a lot of story line.
honestly- hated road to perdition. but i really really liked american beauty so it’ll be interesting to see what he does with it. i think if anything else, the characters will really shine. sam will def. give them room to grow and fully develop. i worry about the pacing/ action movement- is it just me or do his movies seem to walk/plod along rather than speedwalk/skip/run? (not that that’s a bad thing- i think in AB it was totally appropriate and necessary for the pacing to be like that. but it was the main reason i didn’t like road)
what am i looking forward to most?
seeing how they pull off arseface….ooh and who they will cast as cassidy- super hot vampire man.
but the fact is that i’m such a fan of the graphic novel, there’s no way i’m not going to see this movie.
when are they gonna do transmet?
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Ok, i think it’s a good idea in theory but how the hell is Mendes going to cram in all the story, side story, back story, character development in one film and do it justice???
Also, who will he get to play Jesse & Cassidy?
They are both such strong characters that he wouldn’t be able to get away with just throwing a script at someone and hoping they manage to pull it off.
If the movie comes out i will watch it just to see what he did to the story that i love so much but i can quite easily see it being a complete disaster. Especially seeing as it is rumoured that Ennis and Dillion will have no imput at all.