Remember how Variety reported that “Revolutionary Road” director Sam Mendes was going to tackle an adaptation of the graphic novel “The Preacher“? Looks like Variety just got pwned. Mendes says the trade was far too enthusiastic.
“This is a typical Variety announcement,” Mendes told Empire in the U.K. ” ”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.” So no script, no writer, but still “official” announcement? “I’d love to make Preacher,” Mendes admitted. “But there’s no script.”
PWNED. Although let’s face it 90% of film announcements are like this: “XYZ director has announced his intentions to adapt XYZ product, maybe it’ll happen one day” and Variety did say that Mendes was looking for a writer, but hey, we cannot resist the urge to make fun Photoshop graphics. Let that be a journalistic lesson to all of us.
