Sam Mendes‘ Road to Perdition failed to live up to box office expectations, but is notable for a few reasons: It was Mendes’ sophomore follow-up to the critically-acclaimed breakout hit American Beauty, babyface star Tom Hanks was playing a “bad guy,” and it was one of the first comic book adaptations which strayed as far you you can from the capes and superpower realm. The film was not a huge financial success, although the movie is still regarded by some as “a beautiful and criminally underappreciated film.”
Ever since it’s release we;ve been hearing rumbling of a possible sequel. In November 2008, it was reported that Max Allan Collins, the man behind the original series of Road to Perdition comics, has been hired to write two sequels to Perdition, called Road to Purgatory and Road to Paradise, for JBM Productions
According to the report, Road to Purgatory would follow the character of Michael Sullivan, Jr., the son of Tom Hanks’ character in the original film, “who returns from World War II with a new determination to avenge his murdered father.”
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