According to The Hollywood Reporter, screenwriter John August (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie’s Angels, Go) has been hired to adapt the comic book Preacher for Sony Pictures and pen a feature-length Frankenweenie, a short film directed by Tim Burton’s in his earlier years, for Disney Pictures.
Preacher will be helmed by American Beauty and Revolutionary Road director Sam Mendes. The story revolves around a preacher who teams up with a former girlfriend and a hard-drinking Irish vampire and sets out on a journey across America to find God—who apparently had abandoned his duties in heaven—and hold him accountable for his negligence.
Frankenweenie is a fun one to bring back. Burton’s 1984 short film was a parody of the 1931 Frankenstein based on Mary Shelley’s story of the same name. The story tells of a man who brings his dog back to life after it is killed by a car. The movie will remain shot in black and white, will employ stop-motion animation in 3D, and is scheduled to hit theaters in 2011.
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