Rama's Screen

One of the graphic novel-based movie projects I’m anticipating is the recently announced PREACHER which will have Sam Mendes to direct. Mainly because the story has aroused my curiosity, I have to pick up the comic series the next time I’m at a book stand. Let me give you a heads up, the story is a bit f*cked up… In short, it’s about a Texan preacher who’s involved in supernatural power and is blaming God for not doing banged up job and so he teams up with an ex-girlfriend and Irish Vampire to hold God accountable while encountering all types of saint killers along the way.

But apparently, director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road to Perdition) said to Empire recently that it’s still in the development process, barely even in the early stages, but he is excited about the opportunity nonetheless and can’t wait to do some awesome stuff with the movie version.

“I’d love to make Preacher,” he smiles. “But there’s no script.”
“Basically they should have written, ‘Mendes in development with PREACHER’. What I’m doing is, I’ve gotta find a script. I’ve just got to get it written.”

“It’s brilliant, it’s an incredible twisted vision,”
“There’s so much of it you couldn’t possibly fit it all into one movie. It’s just about what you keep and what you leave out, and how you structure the story. But just to have that toy set again, being able to paint on a big canvas and to say ‘I am gonna do crazy crane shots and massive action sequences again because I want to,’ it’s exciting..”

This should be interesting to see how he can pull this off, because the name Sam Mendes usually isn’t attached to massive action visual effect movies, he’s always been more about heavy drama, and that includes the upcoming Oscar worthy flick that stars leo DiCaprio and the mother of Mendes’ child, Kate Winslet (Revolutionary Road)