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The Revolutionary Road director signed up for the project after Columbia Pictures picked up the rights, according to The Hollywood Reporter. A View Askew movie and a proposed HBO series previously fell through.
Preacher, which ran from 1995 to 2000, concerns a man who journeys across America to find God - who has abandoned Heaven - after being possessed by the spawn of an angel and a demon.
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