The executives at HBO have their heads so far stuck up their rear ends that they could not see the swimming-pool-full-of-money potential of a Preacher series. I mean come on: vampires, assassins, God and tons of awesome characters in one place? Really, HBO? However, the producers are now working on getting a movie made, and ComingSoon talked to director Sam Mendes about how the adaptation is going along. He is set to direct from a script by John August.
Mendes is very hopeful of August’s material, noting it to be “incredible”. As for cramming the whole series into a movie, he said that they wouldn’t dare do that, saying that “it wouldn’t do justice of it… there’s so much wonderful stuff that I wouldn’t know what to leave out.”
Hopefully HBO will come to their senses and sanction a series. Now that would be pure awesomeness.
Recent reports may have suggested that a Preacher movie is in the making and is coming out quite soon, but that isn’t what is happening, says Sam Mendes.
Failed HBO television show Preacher is now making its jump to the big-screen, as Sony Pictures and Original Films have landed the