Preacher Gets A Writer

I dont think they would be silly enough to attempt that, i reckon the first movie will be gone to texas/until the end of the world

Yeah Butler would deffo have to lose some muscle mass alright..but sure an actor can pretty much reshape his whole body these days with the right discipline...look at Christian Bale. Another actor i thought of was Guy Pierce, what u think?

I dont think Sam Mendes is the type of director to shy away from the censor baiting elements of the comic..in fact he would probably relish the idea of putting a few noses out of joint! Also he proved he can make a very good, faithful comic adaptation with Road To Perdition. Im pretty sure this movie will have a lot of complaints but that was always the intention of the comic i spose.

i actually havnt a clue! ill have to see if i can find that out. The good thing is that with Watchmen being R rated, it will be easier to do the same for Preacher...i realise that they are in different leagues with the adult content but its a start anyway.

They will indeed need elaphantitis balls to make this faithful to the comic! Any movie that makes God out to be a bit of a bastard is never going to sit well with certain folks!

haha, yeah i reckon they wont watch past Jesse calling God a mother[frick]er at any rate!

You know what? i bet when this movie does come out people will be comparing it to Dogma..because they are very similar in some ways and Kevin Smith said he only made Dogma because he couldnt make Preacher! Shame that was a load of crap

Thanks for posting this man. I wrote CBM about this the day it broke and they never reported on it. I'm pyched that someone finally put something up. Here's a link to John's blogsite, where he first announced it after the news had leaked.

http://johnaugust.com/archives/category/projects/preacher

As it says there, Sony is the brave soul that plans on giving this one another go. Here's August's IMDB page.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0041864/

You're right in saying that most of his movies are family friendly (including his 3 Burton films and Titan A.E.) but he did write "Go". If you remember that one, it was a pretty hard R, Tarantino-esque pic. I think he's got it in him to pull out all of the stops. He's a pretty strong writer.

I think you're right about Mendez too; he's not afraid to upset, and Perdition was an incredible adaptation. Here's hoping, right? This one is ten times less likely to get made than watchmen was, but that somehow happened so who knows. The Ennis script never happened and even HBO thought it was too dark, so who can say. Let's keep our fingers crossed that if they do it, they do it with a retarded, drooling messiah and a chicken #&$%ing cousin.

lol, jesus i forgot about the retarded messiah! Thats the one that will get this movie banned!..but if they just focus on Gone To Texas then all that Grail stuff probably wont feature.

"suffer the little children..Humperdumperdoo!"

"brothas and sistaas, ah have seen the face of Satan..and he wears a the collar of a holyman!..Anyone that sees this movie will burn in eternal damnation!"

I cant wait for the backlash..providing its a good movie of course..Dogmas stirred up some shit but was shit so it didnt matter!

all good casting calls...although how old is gerard butler? cause jesse is only supposed to be pretty young...