Evan Goldberg Explains His Vision For PREACHER

Evan Goldberg Explains His Vision For PREACHER

While speaking to Collider, Goldberg discusses his plans to bring (along with Seth Rogen) Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's gloriously messed up comic series to the small screen for an AMC tv show. The plan is to be as faithful to the comic as possible, but they'll "need to change some stuff".

By MarkCassidy - Mar 09, 2014 02:03 PM EST
Filed Under: Preacher
Source: Collider

After several attempts to adapt Garth Ennis' controversial comic series for the big screen, fans were delighted to hear that we'd actually be getting an AMC tv show instead. A while back it was announced that Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg would pen the script for the project, with Breaking Bad's Sam Catlin on board as executive producer and showrunner. Now Goldberg speaks to Collider about how they plan to tackle the adaptation, assuring that while they intend to stick as closely to the source material as possible, a few things will have to be altered.



“We just had a meeting with AMC and Garth Ennis, who’s the writer, and we all kind of seemed to agree that we’re gonna stay as true to the comic as we can. We need to change some stuff but we’re not gonna change much, I hope. We’re just gonna do a little more of the preamble instead of doing flashbacks and restructure how we dole out the information a little, but we’re gonna [do the] same characters, same story, same ending. We’re gonna try to stick to Preacher as best we can. We’re making it with Sam Catlin who did Breaking Bad, and so he might tell me I’m wrong about all of this and that the real way to do it is different because he’s much smarter and better at all this than I am. But we’re gonna try to stick to what it is as best we can.”


Great news I'm sure you'll agree. Goldberg also comments on the decision to adapt Preacher as a tv show instead of a movie, and suggests that the love triangle (though that's a strange thing to call it in my opinion) between Jesse Custer, Tulip and Cassidy will be the focus. "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.” More at the link below.
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OrionPax
OrionPax - 3/9/2014, 2:48 PM
Been waiting for this,one of my favorite stories up there with Sandman
WorstUserNameEver
WorstUserNameEver - 3/9/2014, 2:49 PM
Preacher is up there with Watchmen and Dark Knight Returns as seminal moments in comic books at the end of the last century.
marvel72
marvel72 - 3/9/2014, 2:49 PM
this & constantine are the only dc shows i'm interested in,i'll watch a few episodes of the flash but i'm not expecting much from cw.

sandman would work better as a tv show than a movie.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 3/9/2014, 2:58 PM
GliderMan, yeah...and then some! If you're in any way religious I'd skip it...unless you're very open minded of course ..but they don't tend to go hand in hand do they?:)
Growler
Growler - 3/9/2014, 3:05 PM
Preacher is my favourite comic-book story in over 40 years of reading them and I'll cheerfully admit that when I first heard that Rogen and Goldberg were onboard, I was more than a little sceptical. However, the more I hear about their vision for the project, the more optimistic I become.

It makes perfect sense to tidy up the timeline a little as the series is all over the place at times with flashbacks and origins.

Bring on Jesus DeSade!
leftcoastpunk
leftcoastpunk - 3/9/2014, 3:15 PM
@Ror- I don't remember it being so much along the way. The ending is about as blasphemous as you can get, and did make me pretty squeamish, but the story as a whole is done so well and I can see where he's coming from with it so I accept it for what it is.
MatTaylorX
MatTaylorX - 3/9/2014, 3:23 PM
Amazing story. Really hope they do it justice. But I will always believe that this should have been done with HBO.
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