In God we Dust

Could you ever imagine a film being made about trying to kill God? My word you would have the entire religious population storming the gates.

But guess what?

Sam Mendes is going to do just that!

Adapted from the Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon comic call Preacher, it follows small town preacher called Jessie Custer.
Custer was accidentally possessed by the supernatural creature named Genesis in an incident which killed his entire congregation and flattened his church.

Genesis, the product of the unauthorized, unnatural coupling of an angel and a demon, is an infant with no sense of individual will. However, as it is composed of both pure goodness and pure evil, it might have enough power to rival that of God himself. In other words, Jesse Custer, bonded to Genesis, may have become the most powerful being in the whole of living existence.

He travels across America with his hit woman girlfriend and his best friend Cassidy, an Irish vampire, with the sole aim of finding and killing God for deserting mankind.

OOhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Controversial!

When this goes into productions the shit is definitely going to hit the fan. A lasped preacher. He drinks, smokes, swears, f*cks, fights and want to kill the almighty. The scary religious types are not going to like that one bit.
However Mendes does seem a good choice to be able to translate the emotional and psychological complexity to the big screen.

There has been no word on casting, but I would love to see Uma Thurman back causing hell as the girlfriend. Colin Farrell would be so much fun as Cassidy.

As for Jessie....well of course I would love to see Hugh Jackman in the role...heck..cast him in anything!!