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Sam Mendes To Direct PREACHER!!


I am – Hercules!!


Sam Mendes ("American Beauty," "Road To Perdition," "Revolutionary Road") will direct a big screen version of the DC/Vertigo funnybook series "Preacher" for Sony.

For a good long while HBO and Mark Steven Johnson ("Jack Frost," "Daredevil") were developing the property as a TV series, but that plan was recently aborted.

Find here AN AICN STORY DATED EXACTLY TEN YEARS AGO TODAY talking about a "Preacher" movie to be produced by Kevin Smith (!) and directed by Rachel "Tank Girl" Talalay (!). Talalay, who also directed "Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare" (1991) and "Ghost in the Machine" (1993) never got another film into cinemas subsequent to 1995's "Tank Girl."

Find all of Variety’s story on the matter here.

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YES!
by mithrandir16
Oct 29th, 2008
08:50:49 PM
Get the fuck out!
by MetalMickey
Oct 29th, 2008
08:52:07 PM
Sam Mendes is no Mark Steven Johnson
by paulrichard
Oct 29th, 2008
08:55:29 PM
AWESOME!
by bee152
Oct 29th, 2008
08:55:35 PM
Yay!
by 433
Oct 29th, 2008
08:58:22 PM
As long as the movie opens and ends with Willie Nelson
by catlettuce4
Oct 29th, 2008
08:58:42 PM
Preacher sucks.
by worldofwarcraft
Oct 29th, 2008
09:00:16 PM
How long before Mendes gives up and...
by Spacker Dave
Oct 29th, 2008
09:01:48 PM
Only rating
by mr_l_74
Oct 29th, 2008
09:06:08 PM
Sam Mendes is the luckiest man alive.
by Gilkuliehe
Oct 29th, 2008
09:06:29 PM
If Nothing Else...
by CHEWBLACCA
Oct 29th, 2008
09:11:59 PM
Sounds like an upgrade to me.
by flickchick85
Oct 29th, 2008
09:15:40 PM
YackBacker
by Duke of Hurl
Oct 29th, 2008
09:19:08 PM
Good news I guess...
by chaplinatemyshoe
Oct 29th, 2008
09:21:31 PM
Mark Steven Johnson...
by Banzai Rootskibango
Oct 29th, 2008
09:22:30 PM
No way...
by andtheflesh
Oct 29th, 2008
09:34:05 PM
hmmm
by BurntRectum
Oct 29th, 2008
09:34:52 PM
As an aside...
by andtheflesh
Oct 29th, 2008
09:37:17 PM
all the same, andtheflesh...
by Le Vicious Fishus
Oct 29th, 2008
09:39:39 PM
Cool
by Charlie_Allnut
Oct 29th, 2008
09:40:49 PM
shit
by SirFlibble
Oct 29th, 2008
09:54:21 PM
ID MUCH RATHER SEE HIM DO CAPTAIN AMERICA.
by Redfive!
Oct 29th, 2008
09:56:03 PM
FFFFNNNOORRRRRFFUCKING YES!
by DocDaneeka
Oct 29th, 2008
09:57:03 PM
Two hours cannot do it justice!
by Hotscot
Oct 29th, 2008
09:58:30 PM
HBO is a better choice then a Movie
by Xiphos_2
Oct 29th, 2008
09:59:36 PM
M-O-O-N. That spells "doomed"
by TomCullen
Oct 29th, 2008
10:05:28 PM
Am also on the Preacher should be a TV show bandwagon
by Miyamoto_Musashi
Oct 29th, 2008
10:07:15 PM
I'd prefer a cable series myself, however...
by catlettuce4
Oct 29th, 2008
10:09:24 PM
ok, yeah, i agree
by DocDaneeka
Oct 29th, 2008
10:13:09 PM
Wow.
by HoboCode
Oct 29th, 2008
10:14:10 PM
Road to Perdition
by enderandrew
Oct 29th, 2008
10:21:36 PM
I've got to agree-- very skeptical
by Drunken Rage
Oct 29th, 2008
10:41:18 PM
Cuz he gets to sniff Kate Winslet's morning breath every day.
by Gilkuliehe
Oct 29th, 2008
10:43:55 PM
Neil Gaiman's Sandman
by The Crystal Skull
Oct 29th, 2008
11:04:03 PM
Eastwood as the Saint (of course)...
by MisterE
Oct 29th, 2008
11:34:07 PM
Ouch.
by fivezero
Oct 29th, 2008
11:38:20 PM
M-O-O-N. That spells "Saint of Killers"
by TomCullen
Oct 30th, 2008
12:01:37 AM
Lance Henrikson is more realistic choice for the Saint
by Xiphos_2
Oct 30th, 2008
12:48:50 AM
Anyone not excited about this is a fuckhead
by Tyler_Turden
Oct 30th, 2008
01:30:11 AM
No no, Dolph as the Saint!
by pipergates
Oct 30th, 2008
01:40:34 AM
You SERIOUS?
by sonnyfern
Oct 30th, 2008
02:00:40 AM
They should do the Jody and T.C. spin-off movie instead
by ebonic_plague
Oct 30th, 2008
02:10:37 AM
Rufus Sewell
by deanbarry
Oct 30th, 2008
02:18:27 AM
NEVER Gonna happen.
by V'Shael
Oct 30th, 2008
02:36:46 AM
Tim Roth as Cassidy
by MC-909
Oct 30th, 2008
02:49:07 AM
Script?
by Vic_Arpeggio
Oct 30th, 2008
02:59:51 AM
Paul Rudd was born for the role of PREACHER
by Monkey_King
Oct 30th, 2008
03:32:12 AM
if Mendes is directing, who wants to give me odds on him actuall
by irc-Hollywood
Oct 30th, 2008
03:36:06 AM
NOW we're getting warmer.
by Wonder Man
Oct 30th, 2008
03:44:04 AM
Trilogy?
by sonnyfern
Oct 30th, 2008
03:49:33 AM
Fuck YES!
by Evil Hobbit
Oct 30th, 2008
04:06:20 AM
I humbly suggest...
by StarskyandHushky
Oct 30th, 2008
04:39:21 AM
shoulda been John Carpenter
by Maniaq
Oct 30th, 2008
04:42:21 AM
sonnyfern, I almost agree...
by unclemeat
Oct 30th, 2008
05:04:58 AM
Sweet baby Jesus and the Orphans!
by Chaplins_tache
Oct 30th, 2008
05:09:13 AM
Colin Fuckin' Farrell for Cassidy
by spud mcspud
Oct 30th, 2008
05:09:52 AM
Monkey_King
by spud mcspud
Oct 30th, 2008
05:11:30 AM
I don't know what to think...
by BigCZee
Oct 30th, 2008
05:15:13 AM
Paul Rudd???
by MC-909
Oct 30th, 2008
05:21:20 AM
Monkey_King a word please
by Xiphos_2
Oct 30th, 2008
05:34:41 AM
I think they'll
by Midnightxpress
Oct 30th, 2008
06:00:48 AM
Jill Wagner for Tulip!
by 11dayempire
Oct 30th, 2008
06:01:00 AM
Remember Henriksen in Dead Man...
by L. Ron Bumquist
Oct 30th, 2008
06:07:43 AM
Farrell Would Be Perfect
by RobFromBackEast
Oct 30th, 2008
06:51:13 AM
Bad idea all around
by Dominic-Vobiscum
Oct 30th, 2008
07:01:14 AM
1st part
by goldenage
Oct 30th, 2008
07:18:16 AM
HBO should do a Hellblazer series.
by rev_skarekroe
Oct 30th, 2008
07:18:45 AM
Wont work and wont happe:
by wowsah156
Oct 30th, 2008
07:24:58 AM
rev_skarekroe
by spud mcspud
Oct 30th, 2008
07:32:05 AM
There is a God.
by Knuckleduster
Oct 30th, 2008
07:32:21 AM
dioxholster has a point
by spud mcspud
Oct 30th, 2008
07:37:20 AM
My holy frikin Jebus!
by superzero
Oct 30th, 2008
07:43:49 AM
M-O-O-N That Spells "Played Out:"
by Aquatarkusman
Oct 30th, 2008
07:46:57 AM
How the hell are they going to make this into a movie?
by Johnny Storm
Oct 30th, 2008
07:55:38 AM
although I'm for Mendeds directing....
by RockLobster800
Oct 30th, 2008
08:10:36 AM
Strange but good choice.
by beastie
Oct 30th, 2008
08:13:51 AM
Also, I actually agree with the Rudd choice.
by beastie
Oct 30th, 2008
08:16:19 AM
also I second Lance Henrisken
by RockLobster800
Oct 30th, 2008
08:20:41 AM
If they had done this 10 years ago...
by 433
Oct 30th, 2008
08:36:12 AM
spud mcspud
by rev_skarekroe
Oct 30th, 2008
08:42:46 AM
Sackoff=Tulip
by gooseud
Oct 30th, 2008
08:53:45 AM
Too much comic-
by ARGH!
Oct 30th, 2008
08:56:33 AM
Day Lewis = Saint of Killers
by spud mcspud
Oct 30th, 2008
08:57:59 AM
dioxholster - hereby released from this argument
by spud mcspud
Oct 30th, 2008
09:01:45 AM
RockLobster800
by spud mcspud
Oct 30th, 2008
09:03:25 AM
Humper-di-do!!
by nerdvernacular
Oct 30th, 2008
09:18:39 AM
Whatever happens..
by tehDude
Oct 30th, 2008
09:30:59 AM
Ick
by PTSDPete
Oct 30th, 2008
10:54:43 AM
The "What Happens in Vegas" poster...
by MisterE
Oct 30th, 2008
10:56:32 AM
Great, let's strike while the iron's iceberg cold
by gruntybear
Oct 30th, 2008
11:06:22 AM
Fuck Superman, this is what we need . . .
by Thall_Joben
Oct 30th, 2008
11:08:18 AM
Cute, but harmless.
by shitstorm23
Oct 30th, 2008
11:26:20 AM
YES!!! FINALLY!!! Those books are Awesome!
by JestaFool
Oct 30th, 2008
11:27:27 AM
15 years ago...
by Kankennon
Oct 30th, 2008
11:43:38 AM
They'll tone it down...
by drewlicious
Oct 30th, 2008
11:58:07 AM
The blink tag is about 10 years old, too
by Dr Lizardo
Oct 30th, 2008
12:20:03 PM
YESSSS!!!!
by brandon11
Oct 30th, 2008
12:27:20 PM
Um... No.
by lagomorph
Oct 30th, 2008
01:24:43 PM
Mendes Upgrade
by tallsy
Oct 30th, 2008
01:57:15 PM
A faithful Preacher movie will not pass censors.
by Damien Chowder
Oct 30th, 2008
01:59:00 PM
Another Comic Book Movie?
by p0llk4t
Oct 30th, 2008
02:02:50 PM
Cassidy is essential!
by oisin5199
Oct 30th, 2008
03:36:12 PM
MC-909
by ScotFree
Oct 30th, 2008
03:57:36 PM
So Happy!!!
by PR1C3Y
Oct 30th, 2008
04:54:40 PM
I can't believe ANY of you want Mendes to do this
by slone13
Oct 30th, 2008
05:08:41 PM
Areseface says:
by toshiro-solo
Oct 30th, 2008
09:28:26 PM
Fuck this...
by blindambition238
Oct 31st, 2008
01:52:03 AM
I'm with MC-909, Paul Rudd????
by crazybubba
Oct 31st, 2008
05:05:08 AM
paul rudd makes as much as sense as hugh jackman
by crazybubba
Oct 31st, 2008
05:31:22 AM
Patrick Stewart for Starr! And yes, I'm basing that
by blindambition238
Oct 31st, 2008
06:44:02 AM
anyone else find it pretty sad?
by The Amazing G
Nov 10th, 2008
07:46:50 AM

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