Comingsoon.com had the chance to talk to director Sam Mendes about his newest film Away We Go which is opening in limited releases throughout the summer. Towards the end of the interview the topic turned briefly to the possibility of Mendes directing a Preacher movie, check it out:

CS: I’m personally very interested in the idea of you doing “Preacher” because I was a big fan of “Road to Perdition” and I’m a fan of those comics as well. How’s that been progressing in terms of John August developing the script?

Mendes: I think it’s an incredible piece of material and I’m very hopeful about John’s script, so let’s keep our fingers crossed.

CS: I think it’s pretty cool, since it would tap into some of the things you have done over the years – it has dark humor and interesting things to work with. As far as the theater stuff, do you generally go along with the plays whenever they tour, at least to start off?

Mendes: No, obviously we rehearse in New York and that’s where I live, then I’ll go to London. Then I tend to go on maybe one or two dates on the road this year I went to Madrid and I’ll go to Greece with them as well. So I like to stay in touch with them.

CS: Do you have any idea if you’re going to try and condense the entire series into one movie or are you going to jump around use portions of it?

Mendes: Oh, he wouldn’t do the entire series in one movie. It would be impossible to do all nine volumes in one movie, that would be one long movie, and it wouldn’t do justice of it. It will not attempt to do all of it, but there’s so much wonderful stuff that I wouldn’t know what to leave out.