Salvation for the Preacher Movie
The Hollywood Reporter?slightly more trustworthy than unnamed sources of Australian websites?says that Columbia Pictures is the newest studio to grab the rights to Garth Ennis’ Preacher comic, and plans to make a movie to be directed by Sam Mendes, of Road to Perdition and American Beauty fame. I thought I’d be more excited by the news, but there have been so many Preacher movies and projects announced?including the recently defunct HBO TV series, which probably would have been the best format for Preacher?that I guess I’m not really willing to believe this will actually happen until production starts.
On the plus side, Mendes is currently wrapping up a movie, and his slate is empty?I don’t know what would stop him from making the flick. On the minus side, I think Mendes’ films are overly sentimental and incredibly treacly?e.g., that stupid plastic bag in American Beauty, or the 20-minute slow-motion final death scene in Road to Perdition (which caused me to laugh hysterically, revealing my dickweed-ery to an entire movie theater)?which does not suit Preacher. At all. I guess we’ll see.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.