Sam Mendes Preaches to the Fans

Sam Mendes Preaches to the Fans

The script is done and looks good.

By teabag - Sep 14, 2009 01:09 PM EST
Filed Under: Preacher
Source: Empire

Last year Empire talked to Sam Mendes about his planned Preacher adaptation and today, in between asking questions about his latest movie Away We Go, they got the latest on the project from the Oscar winning director. And the good news is that Preacher is inching closer to fruition - and that there is a script.

"It's getting closer," says Mendes. "I've seen a script and it's very good. We're a little further down the road than when I last spoke to you."

Created by comic-book wizards Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, the titular Preacher is Jesse Custer, a Southern priest inhabited by a heavenly being called Genesis in incident that kills off his entire congregation and sends him onto a demented hunt for an explanation. From God

If all this fire and brimstone sounds like an unusual choice for a man who's specialised in beautifully-crafted explorations of American family life, rest very assured for Mendes is a Preacher fanboy: "I love graphic novels - Road To Perdition was based on graphic novel - so I'm used to that form and Preacher is absolutely brilliant. I certainly feel it's a movie."

"It's funny, it's violent as hell, it's extremely blasphemous and profane, but it has an amazingly skilful tone," says Mendes. "I met Garth Ennis and I'm just a huge fan of it."


Now Sam has a few more movies to be done but im hoping this is a ray of light for this project.....


Teabag out :P

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THEPHOENIX
THEPHOENIX - 9/14/2009, 1:31 PM
I hope they don't screw it up. If they do then there will be no hope of ever getting a good Sandman movie.
theothegreat
theothegreat - 9/14/2009, 1:43 PM
I read the whole series, the endind sucked big time. I really hope they don't make a movie totally based on tha source material. Well if they change the ending that'll be cool. I'm out
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 9/14/2009, 2:08 PM
Very cool news!!!

Damn if it made HBO we'd be well into it now! But a movies sweet!!
DDD
DDD - 9/14/2009, 3:06 PM
It would have been great as a series on HBO.

I just hope they do it right!
InstigatorGIRL
InstigatorGIRL - 9/14/2009, 3:41 PM
Preacher and True Blood on one station.... I would have a geek joygasm every sunday night.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 9/14/2009, 4:13 PM
Good stuff Mr Bag! Iv been waiting for some more news on this, glad Mendes hasn't scrapped his plans for Preacher.
BillyBlack
BillyBlack - 9/14/2009, 5:08 PM
Nice to get an update on this.

I'm with Rorschach01 in thinking this was going to die on the vine. To hear Mendes so enthusiastic is very encouraging.
BOOK552
BOOK552 - 9/14/2009, 8:24 PM
access@: READ IT!
48and2
48and2 - 9/14/2009, 9:04 PM
He changes up source material alot. But in my opinion, that could bode well for this, because he usually makes very elegant and tasteful changes. And hell if I haven't seen a darker seriously dramatic political movie than Jarhead in quite a while. That was some ugly but beautiful shit. If you listen to his commentaries, it gives you some serious insight to his brilliance. If left in his hands, I don't think many of us will be dissapointed.

If you have Jarhead and haven't checked it out, there's a deleted scene with Sam Rockwell that was actually going to open the movie. Watch it - it shouldn't have been left out imo.
NoobMike
NoobMike - 9/14/2009, 9:29 PM
mmm, 48and2 was Preacher supposed to be elegant and tasteful? Maybe I missed that bit.

Still no news on what studio is going to make it? Because that could really give us indications if they will keep most of it or if they'll water it down (if they water it down what's left I mean it stabs religion, politics and the military, is extremely violent and has some sexual tension on the side)
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 9/15/2009, 8:37 AM
Yeah @ TEA, im torn too, im sure i will be a great movie, but they will only be able to put a certain amount in in unlike the HBO series, though its good to know this baby is still happening!

GR8 new Avatar!! ; D
BillyBlack
BillyBlack - 9/15/2009, 11:45 AM
LEEE777

I think they were set to do it, and then got True Blood up and running first. Once that happened they didn't see it as such a commodity, already filling that niche. It would've been nice. But if the rumors are true about Mark Steven Johnson directing and being a part of it, we may have dodged a bullet.
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