‘Preacher’ Movie Still Happening, D.J. Caruso Still Attached

Briefly: In a just released interview with D.J. Caruso (promoting his new film, Standing Up), the director briefly touched on a project that many of us have been waiting for for a very long time: the film adaptation of Garth Ennis’s Preacher.

Caruso states “I’m still attached to Preacher and we’re wrestling with Sony because I got another movie at Sony called Invertigo, which is a big action film we’re trying to get going this summer. So Preacher got put on the back burner, but we’re still involved with Preacher and hopefully we’ll have some good news on that soon. Todd August wrote a great script. I think it’s one of those features that has to kind of go through the studio system if it’s going to be made for a certain price. So we’re kind of revisiting a way to approach making the movie in the right way.”

So basically, the movie is still happening… but not right now.

The project, of course, has been in development hell forever. The film rights originally sold in the late 1990’s, and has since gone through plenty of writers, directors, studios, and even HBO before landing where it is today. For me, the HBO series sounded like the most promising way to adapt the series, and I don’t think I’d be alone in saying that I’m not overly looking forward to Caruso’s version… if it ever comes to be, that is.

Are you still waiting for a Preacher film? Who would you want to see play Jesse? Sound out below!

Source: i am ROGUE