Preacher Movie, for real?

You have got to be kidding me. According to Ain't It Cool News, there is going to be a Preacher movie directed by Sam Mendes, the guy who did American Beauty and Road to Perdition.

Okay, no problem with that directing choice. Mendes did some amazing work on those two movies, and I think he could do as good a job as anyone could with ANY story.

The problem is: IT'S F$#%N' PREACHER!! Anyone who has ever read the book will tell you, there is NO WAY that the majority of this story gets to see the big screen. I'm not going to spoil the book for anyone (which I suggest that people read whole-heartedly). But come on, just READING the broad outline to people has been known to cause strokes.

In a world where a guy like Kevin Smith (a born and raised Catholic) has to put up with protests over the movie Dogma, there is no possible way that any studio will ever put this story as-is on screen.

I really hope that they do, though, because PREACHER is one of those "new classic" graphic novels. It's a great read, never gets boring, and sure as hell never slows down. Look out world, Jesse Custer may be riding into town. And he's no one to mess with.

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