So, Just What Is The Status Of The ‘Preacher’ Adaptation?

The DC/Vertigo Comics series that was created by writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon has been stuck in a development limbo for quite some time now. Sam Mendes, Rachel Talalay, and Mark Steven Johnson have all taken cracks at adapting the comic. It’s seen attempts at bringing it both to the big and small screens in it’s time. The latest names attached to the project are screenwriter John August (Frankenweenie) and director D.J. Caruso (Disturbia).

Screenwriter August, who is probably best known for his work on Charlie’s Angels and Big Fish, recently mentioned Preacher and commented that it was currently “frozen in 12-point Courier” and described it’s development as “gestating.”

“I don’t know if the birth is going to be anytime soon. That’s the frustration about screenwriting. You can spend a lot of time on a project and sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn’t happen. The luxury of working on ‘Frankenweenie’ is that I came on and they said, ‘We’re going to make this movie. You wrote the script and I shoot the script,’ and it’s done. That’s remarkable.

You look for filmmakers who will see it and make it. My favorite genre of movies are movies that get made.”

And what about the director attached to the project? Back in 2011 D.J. Caruso tweeted that he was going to direct Preacher. He even went on to say a month later that he’d like to cast Chris Pine as Jesse Custer, Alex Pettyfer as the Saint Of Killers, and Shia LaBeouf as Arseface. But just a year, Caruso announced that his next project would not be Preacher. Instead he would be directing the sci-fi thriller, Invertigo. Will this film ever see the light of day? It honestly doesn’t sound like it.

Source: Front Row Features