Jason Netter Movies

Garth Ennis' popular Preacher comic heads to the big screen with this Columbia Pictures production. The Vertigo series, published from 1995-2000, revolves around a possessed preacher who leads a revolt against God in a violent trip across America after the deity steps down from his place in Heaven. Big Fish's John August provides the scripted adaptation, with I Am Number Four's D.J. Caruso taking on directing duties. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi

Two newlyweds in the American Old West find their modest plot of land coveted by a malevolent preacher who will do everything in his power to steal it away from them in this western from sibling filmmakers Logan Miller and Noah Miller, who co-authored the screenplay in addition to sharing directing duties. Miguel and Sarah are just starting their lives together when religious zealot Prophet Josiah sets his sights on their land. When a big city sheriff shows up in their dusty western town, tempers flare, setting the stage for a fiery confrontation. Ed Harris, January Jones, and Jason Isaacs star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Garth Ennis' subversive comic The Boys is set to be translated into motion-picture territory with this Columbia Pictures film produced by Neal H. Moritz. The premise surrounds a group of CIA operatives that enforces the law when superheroes cross the line. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide

Night Watch director Timur Bekmambetov helms his first English-language feature film with this big-screen adaptation of Mark Millar's action-packed graphic novel. Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) is a cube-dwelling hypochondriac whose uneventful life has become a mundane blur of terminal boredom. Repeatedly humiliated by his boss and constantly cuckolded by his cheating girlfriend, weakling Wes seems to be living right down to everyone's expectations that he would never amount to anything in life. However, upon discovering that the father he never knew has been brutally murdered, the spineless, clock-punching pushover is recruited into a secret society of assassins known as the Fraternity. During the course of his training, the man who was once an office-bound wimp develops lightning-fast reflexes and superhuman dexterity courtesy of his skilled mentor Fox (Angelina Jolie). Upon completing his training, Wes is assigned the task of dealing out death to the mythological Fates, who possess the ability to alter the lifelines of mortal men. It isn't long before the nebbish nerd-turned-agile assassin is erasing the bad guys with surprising efficiency, yet as Wes begins to carry the mantle passed down to him by his father, he gradually begins to suspect that his wise tutors are not the crime-fighting enforcers they present themselves to be. Now, with everything he ever wanted in life finally within his grasp, Wes is about to find out that the only thing more difficult than ending the lives of others is summoning the courage to take control of his own. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Based on a comic book series created by Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti, the made-for-cable Painkiller Jane stars Emmanuelle Vaugier as Jane Elizabeth Browning, a young Marine captain who is the sole survivor when her Special Ops force is exposed to a biochemical "retrovirus" weapon after raiding an illegal lab. It turns out that the retrovirus has endowed Jane with miraculous self-healing powers, making her virtually invulnerable. Unfortunately, she isn't given much of an opportunity to exercise this unique gift before she is locked up in a military hospital on orders from government shrink Lucas Knight (Tate Donovan). Unwilling to act as guinea pig for an upcoming series of medical experiments, Jane escapes her confines and becomes a fugitive, not only from the government but also from a secret conspiratorial cartel which numbers Dr. Knight (aka Lucas Insley) among its members! She spends the rest of the film thwarting villains and writing wrongs (usually in Bionic Woman-style slow motion action scenes), with the help of her new cohort, handsome thief Nick (Eric Dane). Former Shaft star Richard Roundtree is seen as Jane's Marine mentor Col. Watts, who reluctantly assumes the "Inspector Javert" role in tracking her down on behalf of the authorties. Billed as an "original event" when it first aired December 9, 2005 on the Sci-Fi Channel, the entertaining but highly derivative Painkiller Jane has "two-hour series pilot" written all over it. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi