After years of fits and starts, with names such as Sam Mendes, Joe Carnahan, Shia LaBeouf, and Chris Pine attached attached at various stages, some light began to peak through in the long development of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's comic, Preacher. The acclaimed Vertigo Comics series had been planned as a film initially, but last fall a rumor surfaced Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg were developing it as a TV series to air on AMC, home of another comics adaptation, The Walking Dead. And now AMC has gone and made it official.
Rogen and Goldberg will script the pilot and serve as writers and exec-producers on the series with Sam Catlin a producer and showrunner. Preacher was published from 1995-2000 and told the story of Jesse Custer, a Texas preacher possessed by a powerful entity who encounters all sorts of crazy and highly blasphemous characters while trying to find God and make him pay for abandoning humanity.
While it may not seem like the most natural fit for Rogen and Goldberg, anyone who saw This is the End knows they have a full reservoir of dark religious humor to draw from that should fit with Preacher well. It's clearly something both have been working towards for a lot of years....
"This is amazing!" say Rogen and Goldberg. "We've tried for seven years to work on 'Preacher' and we're so psyched AMC is finally letting us. It is our favorite comic of all time, and we're going to do everything we can to do it right. Humperdoo!"
No word on when AMC plans to debut the series, but it would make one heck of a 1-2 punch with The Walking Dead.
