Sam Mendes Talks PREACHER

Collider had a chat with director Sam Mendes who’s attached to the movie adaptation PREACHER based on the graphic novel by Garth Ennis, about Jesse Custer, a down-and-out preacher in the small Texas town of Annville, joined by his old girlfriend Tulip O’Hare, as well as a hard-drinking Irish vampire named Cassidy, the three of them encounter all types of saint killers along the way. Previous info announced that scribe John August (Big Fish, Corpse Bride) is set to write the screenplay.

Mendes said he couldn’t say much more than what the world already knows, he loved the book and John August is currently writing the script. Unfortunately PREACHER won’t be his next project because he wants to do 2 plays in Brooklyn and then travels around the world with them, so he won’t be doing a movie until 2010.
He also talked about meeting the graphic novelist Garth Ennis, and his way of dealing with screenwriting process, for more just check out the interview video OVER THERE.

Mendes has an upcoming drama that I can’t wait for, AWAY WE GO, which has that Little Miss Sunshine/Juno indie vibe to it (watch the trailer). Could be an Oscar contender, ya never know. It opens limited on June 5th, 2009