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LINKDJ Caruso Signed To Direct Preacher FilmDifficult-to-film comic brings I Am Number Four auteur on board. By Matt Rorie | Feb. 22, 2011
Dismemberment, the KKK, sinister grins: all in a day's work for Jesse Custer.
I confess to really liking Preacher, even though I have limited appreciation for a lot of Garth Ennis' other work. Preacher felt like it had important things it wanted to say about what it meant to be a man in a world stripped of a lot of traditional masculine roles, whereas a lot of Ennis' other books feels a bit puerile just for the sake of being juvenile. That said, Preacher is right up there in consideration as one of the best comic series of the 1990's, and it's been long rumored for a screen adaptation. Kevin Smith was in discussions to produce a film adaptation, and HBO was interested in running a miniseries based on the comic, but all of the previous projects have fallen apart, probably mostly due to the realization of the people who would be spending millions of dollars of just how controversial the material may be.
If you're not familiar with Preacher's storyline, it follows young Jesse Custer, who's imbued with the power of the offspring of a demon and an angel and effectively makes it his mission to find God, who's hiding out on Earth, and take him to task for the failings of his creation. Along the way, he befriends a vampire, shacks up with his ex-girlfriend, regularly interfaces with the ghost of John Wayne, turns a man's head into a crude penis with a knife, and kills a whole lot of people who definitely have it coming.
Now it looks like the long-gestating project might actually be gaining some momentum in its final (?) push towards the big screen, with DJ Caruso tweeting that his "deal just closed" to direct a film. The Preacher storyline is far too long to be condensed into a single film, so it'll be curious to see what tack they take in adapting the material. Also of concern is the generally filthy tone of the books, with gruesome injuries and sacrilege abounding. There's no way to pull it off faithfully with a PG-13 rating, really, and Watchmen's relative lack of success has made big-budget, R-rated comic adaptations less likely to get greenlit. We'll probably be hearing more about this project over the course of the year, but with the director of I Am Number Four, Eagle Eye, and Disturbia on board, here's hoping this doesn't wind up being a Shia LeBeouf vehicle. ( Timothy Olyphant, what have you got going on this fall?)
LINK'100 Bullets' To Become Showtime TV Series
Posted 6/21/11 12:31 pm ET by Danica Davidson in DC Comics, News
The comic book series 100 Bullets may have ended its ten-year run in 2009, but it could have new life in the form of a television series.
Deadline is reporting that David S. Goyer will write and executive produce the series for Showtime. Warner Brothers TV will also be producing.
Brian Azzarello, who wrote the "100 Bullets" comic book series, previously alluded to a possible cable television adaptation when speaking to MTV News in 2009, saying, Television -- there's an idea! That's all I'll say. Television... or maybe something that's not just TV."
Two years later, were closer to seeing that become a reality.
To say Goyer has worked with comic book adaptations before is putting it lightly. In the world of Batman, he co-wrote Batman Begins, and co-wrote the story of The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises. Turning to Superman, he wrote the story and screenplay for the yet-to-be-released Man of Steel reboot of the film franchise. In addition to this, he wrote all three Blade movies and helmed the third one as director.
Now he has his eye on the gritty 100 Bullets, in which people are given a gun and 100 untraceable bullets so they can kill someone who wronged them, if they so choose.
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