After an extended pre-production period, it was recently revealed that a Preacher TV series has been green lit. We now hear from Evan Goldberg regarding their plans to respect the comics and the move from a theatrical release to television.
Goldberg, one of the men behind the project, along with Seth Rogen, gives insight into how important it is to stick with the original source material when developing the look and feel of the show. “…we all kind of seemed to agree that we’re going to stay as true to the comic as we can. We need to change some stuff but we’re not going to change much, I hope. We’re just going to do a little more of the preamble instead of doing flashbacks and restructure how we dole out the information a little, but we’re going to do the same characters, same story, same ending. We’re going try to stick to Preacher as best we can.”
As mentioned, the Preacher adaptation started out its life as a film. Although we won’t see it make the jump to theaters just yet, Goldberg expands on why this was a mistake and how an episodic run is best over-all for the telling this story. “The big difference is everyone else tried to make it a movie and it shouldn’t be a movie…it’s too big; you can’t do that in a movie. It’s just too big. You’ve gotta learn the characters, it’s all about a love triangle and you need to grow with them and see the woman swayed one way or the other, and in a movie you just can’t accomplish all that.”
The show comes to AMC, with Breaking Bad producer Sam Catlin at the helm. More details on a release date as we receive them.