The Hollywood Reporter and Superhero Hype are reporting that Columbia Pictures has picked up the rights to “Preacher”, the popular 1990′s graphic novel from Vertigo by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon. Neil Moritz and Origin Films, along with Kickstar Productions’ Jason Netter, are producing, and Sam Mendes is attached as the director of the film. There are, as of yet, no writers attached to a script. “Preacher” has been in consideration for adaptation for quite a long time, with a script and production start, starring James Marsden (“X-Men”, “Enchanted”) in 2002, and an hour-long HBO series in development hell since its announcement in 2006. The comic told the story of…

Mark Millar, the comic book scribe behind the supervillain hit Wanted, which recently made the jump to the big screen this past July, recently talked to Superhero Hype about the Hollywood interest in his latest work War Heroes. War Heroes, a six-issue series whose second volume comes out September 19th on Image Comics, tells the tale of the future of American military forces that employ superpowered beings in a war not unlike what the US is involved in now, and is garnering a lot of hype. Millar said “I was in London working (and hanging out with some MW buds) over the last couple of days, but War Heroes officially…