According to one source, that report last week about Sam Mendes directing an adaptation of Preacher was a bit premature.
The source? Mendes himself.
“I’d love to make Preacher,” he tells Empire. “But there’s no script.”
“This is a typical Variety announcement,” Mendes continued. “‘Mendes to direct Preacher’ -– I wish! Basically they should have written, ‘Mendes in development with Preacher’. What I’m doing is, I’ve gotta find a script. I’ve just got to get it written.”
Mendes, who directed Road to Perdition and American Beauty, is excited about the movie, which is based on the Vertigo series by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon.
“It’s brilliant,” he said, “it’s an incredible twisted vision.”
