Preacher: now an AMC TV show - No comic spoilers please

[Meh]

Fuck off.

[Vemsie]

I really can't see this working, though I hope it does. An HBO series would've made more sense. Then again, if Snyder can pull off Watchmen - and I think he can - perhaps Mendes can make a great Preacher movie.

[K]

There’s nothing to suggest they’re doing the whole series in one film. Jesse doesn’t have to take down God in the first film, they could get a satisfying film from an adaptation of ‘Proud Americans’ or ‘Until the End of the World’. Possibly.

[Roboplegic Wrongcock]

The hilarious thing is if the film gets made and turns out to be a box office success, then i can see HBO agreeing to the show.

[Mr Cochese]

There’s nothing to suggest they’re doing the whole series in one film. Jesse doesn’t have to take down God in the first film, they could get a satisfying film from an adaptation of ‘Proud Americans’ or ‘Until the End of the World’. Possibly.

They should actually call it "Until The End Of The World", so it would cause confusion in the same way as the time when they remade Crash but with black people instead of cars.

[SpaceJump]

Found this while searching goggle pics the other day , forgot to post it. Dont know if it's a make up test or what but thought i'd post it all the same. And no i wasn't searching for arseface's

[Space Renegade Ulala]

That's years old, a pre-production submission piece for the doomed Rachel Talay film that thankfully never materialised.

[Jack Walsh's coffee shop]

Why, is Rachel Talay the worst kind of person to helm this?

What's her previous, have never heard of her?

[Vemsie]

Why, is Rachel Talay the worst kind of person to helm this?

What's her previous, have never heard of her?

She did Tank Girl.

[SeanR]

I keep confusing her with Katherine Bigalow

[Floex]

So the bump wasn't HBO were wrong and this was going into production straight away then?...

.... Let this topic die

[roskelld]

This is worst than people bumping the Shenmue 3 thread.

[Space Renegade Ulala]

Good idea, Rosk, I know what I'm doing when I get home: Megaton announcement incoming!!!!!11

(Yu Suzuki has stubbed his toe and work on the game will be postponed another 799 weeks)

[Vemsie]

Aronovsky as director?

Only a rumor as of yet, but he's an interesting choice.

[lordcookie]

He needs to announce his next film soon otherwise he is going to get attached to every vaguely interesting project that has yet to get a director. I'm waiting for him to be rumoured to direct Kane and Lynch seeing as that is now directorless.

[SeanR]

Sam Mendes was originally attached to direct, but dropped off the project to helm James Bond 23 instead

O RLY?

[lordcookie]

DJ Caruso has tweeted that he has signed on to direct the Preacher film. Oh well, I was quite looking forward to it.

[Mr Cochese]

I imagine it will be every bit as faithful to the source material as Constantine was.

[Steve McQueef]

I enjoyed Constantine, despite it's divergence from the source material.

The ending just pissed me off.

He should have lit one up.

[Gambit]

DJ Caruso has tweeted that he has signed on to direct the Preacher film. Oh well, I was quite looking forward to it.

I thought he was directing Dead Space?

[The Sarge]

I thought he was directing Dead Space?

Jesus.

Anyone but him.

[lordcookie]

I thought he was directing Dead Space?

He might still be, one project could be further along than the other.

[Vemsie]

Dead Space and Preacher are great IP's, so it's disheartening that they attached D.J. 'I only do generic' Caruso to it.

[Silent Runner]

Wasn't he on board for Y - The Last Man as well?

[lordcookie]

He was but he left that project a while ago. Leterrier was circling it but he has just signed on to direct sci-fi disaster film, G.

[Vemsie]

With the loss of Breaking Bad and soon Mad Men, AMC is looking at a big hole in their schedule, one that shows like The Killing and Low Winter Sun haven't quite been able to fill. While they have the ratings juggernaut that is The Walking Dead, they still need something that will be a buzz show, that will get a ton of attention and make a cultural impact. They're betting that show will be Preacher.

Sources tell me that the network has ordered a pilot based on the classic Vertigo comic by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon. In the comic Jesse Custer is a small town preacher who is torn by booze and sin and who finds himself the vessel for a strange entity - the child of a mating between an angel and a demon. Filled with immense power, including The Word of God, which makes anyone do whatever he says, Jesse goes hunting for the Lord Almighty, who has abandoned creation. He aims to make him pay for leaving his children behind. Joining Jesse on his journey is his ex-girlfriend Tulip, who is now a hit woman, and a hundred year old Irish vampire named Cassidy. Along the way they battle secret religious commandoes, the retarded descendent of Christ, a guy who fucks meat and even each other.

http://badassdigest.com/2013/11/16/amc-is-taking-preacher-to-pilot/

[JohnC]

You put ABC in the thread title, BTW. That would have been worse than AMC, even if AMC aren't HBO.

[Mr Cochese]

Could work.

[Vemsie]

You put ABC in the thread title, BTW. That would have been worse than AMC, even if AMC aren't HBO.

Fixed.

[Mr Cochese]

I hope Walton Goggins can do a decent Irish accent.