Sam Mendes to direct ‘Preacher’ adaptation

Sam Mendes is ready to direct the big-screen adaptation of Vertigo’s comic book series “Preacher” for Columbia Pictures.

Created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillion in the ‘90s, the series followed a Texas preacher possessed by Genesis, a spiritual being conceived by an angel and a demon.

Along with a girlfriend and a vampire, the preacher embarked on a cross-country search for God, who abandoned his duties in heaven.

The Hollywood Reporter says no writers are currently attached to the project.

Mendes, who previously directed the adaptation of “Road to Perdition,” is currently wrapping up “Revolutionary Road,” a drama with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.