PREACHER: Seth Rogen Discusses The Changes Being Made To The Source Material

PREACHER: Seth Rogen Discusses The Changes Being Made To The Source Material

Seth Rogen is developing Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's insanely brilliant comic series for AMC, and during an interview with CraveOnline the actor/writer explains how the Preacher TV series will differ from the controversial source material. Will hardcore fans be annoyed at the changes?

By MarkCassidy - Oct 07, 2015 04:10 PM EST
Filed Under: Preacher
Source: CraveOnline

We've heard a few tidbits about AMC's upcoming adaptation of Preacher in the past, but now Seth Rogen, who is developing the show with writing partners Evan Goldberg and Sam Catlin, goes into some detail on what we can expect to see altered/omitted from the comics. Preacher is a vast, multi-layered story with a LOT of characters and subplots, so it was inevitable that some pretty significant changes would be made - but fans should be able to rest easy in the knowledge that Rogen is adamant that the spirit of the comic will remain intact.

"We are changing the specifics of how the narrative is unfolding. A lot of the building blocks we are not changing, a lot of characters we’re keeping, but we want to make a show that if you’re a fan of the comic, you don’t know what to expect. And we have no interest honestly in just doing a literal page-to-page adaptation. It just seems like the most boring creative endeavor one could go on! I mean there’s some things that even Garth will argue, is quick to admit that we probably should not even attempt to put on television. There’s some characters, we’re talking about maybe we combine these two into one person. But to us the tangential element is one of our favorite things. The fact that it does go off into these other worlds and explore these other characters, I mean that’s something that we wholeheartedly intend on indulging in because it’s one of the best parts about the comic. Just the massive tapestry of f***ing weirdos. [Laughs.]” "


Sounds fair enough, right? Rogen also seemed to confirm that we will see Jesse's spirit guide (who just happens to be the ghost of John Wayne) at some point, though he doesn't mention the Saint of Killers: the fan-favorite character we've all been waiting to hear some news about.

Preacher stars Dominic Cooper as Jesse Custer, Ruth Negga as Tulip O'Hare, Joe Gilgun as Cassidy, Ian Colletti as Arseface, Lucy Griffiths as Emily Woodrow, Elizabeth Perkins as Vyla Quinncannon and Jamie Anne Allman and Derek Wilson as Betsy and Donny Schenck.
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BlackStar25
BlackStar25 - 10/7/2015, 4:57 PM
Oh my...He used the "C" word...
TucksFrom2015
TucksFrom2015 - 10/7/2015, 5:20 PM
"[Laughs.]

Battabing
Battabing - 10/7/2015, 5:25 PM
Hal Jordan just cameo-ed on Arrow!!
GhostDog
GhostDog - 10/7/2015, 5:30 PM
@Battabing where? I dint see anything....
BlackStar25
BlackStar25 - 10/7/2015, 5:46 PM
@Battabing
TheManFromLolliLand
TheManFromLolliLand - 10/7/2015, 5:49 PM
@ComicsBornAndBred @BlackStar25 During the bar scene, it starts the flashback with someone in Hal's signature jacket, with "JORDAN" on the front
BlackStar25
BlackStar25 - 10/7/2015, 5:53 PM
Damn...Now I'll have to go back and see it now. :/
Battabing
Battabing - 10/7/2015, 5:53 PM
You see Jordan leaving a Coast City bar as they focus in on Waller and Oliver.
MercwithMouth
MercwithMouth - 10/7/2015, 5:55 PM
@blackandyellow

How about them Pirates?
GhostDog
GhostDog - 10/7/2015, 5:56 PM
@TheManFromLolliLand @Battabing
so it's merely an Easter egg....
Battabing
Battabing - 10/7/2015, 6:05 PM
Yeah, an easter egg, but quite an easter egg it was!
Gulon180
Gulon180 - 10/7/2015, 6:08 PM
Gonna suck
GhostDog
GhostDog - 10/7/2015, 6:10 PM
@Battabing true true. I got chills when I rewinded it lol
Oerwinde
Oerwinde - 10/7/2015, 6:16 PM
This made me even less interested. The Walking Dead pissed me off the more it diverged from the book to the point I abandoned the show in season 2 because watching it made me angry. On the other Hand Game of Thrones was as close as possible and I effing loved it... Until they started diverging wildly, and now I gave up on it too. I can only speak for myself and everyone I know, but we as fans want to see the books we love on the screen, not some bastardization.
EastOfWest
EastOfWest - 10/7/2015, 6:16 PM
Arrow?! Who gives a crap? Bring on the Saint of Killers!

KnobGoblin
KnobGoblin - 10/7/2015, 6:22 PM
Meat-woman or GTFO!


OrionPax
OrionPax - 10/7/2015, 9:49 PM
AGREE @KnobGoblin!
DoctorDoomSayer
DoctorDoomSayer - 10/8/2015, 4:17 AM
meat woman...wtf?!
DukeAcureds
DukeAcureds - 10/8/2015, 6:47 AM
I get it. I'm still looking forward to it.
But I really don't like the present mindset that seems to be prevailent with regards to comic book adaptation. The whole thing about not doing it the same as the books, because that would be too predictable or somehow boring or repetitive or whatever.
Can you imagine if the next adaptation of A Christmas Carol or Persuasion did this? "Oh people know what happens, so we don't want to do the obvious thing here."
FVCK THAT! Adapt the comic book.
When I go see Macbeth, this week I do not expect there to be a radically different ending. Maybe the interpretation of characters (such as Cottilard's Lady Macbeth) will be different, maybe the structure will be reworked, etc. etc. But if I have ever seen or read Macbeth before, then I should pretty much know what to expect.
Likewise, if I've read the Game of Thrones books or The Walking Dead books before I should know what to expect.
Adapt the fvcking books.
Watchmen may not have had the squid, but it was still a proper adaptation, it still worked, it was in fact even more interesting for it's differences.
Watchmen, Sin City, 300, V for Vendetta, American Splendor, Kick Ass, Road to Perdition, 30 Days of Night, Ghost World, The Crow, Hellboy... They are fvcking comic book adaptations.
Even, to some degree or other, Iron Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), Batman Forever, The Punisher (2004), Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, Kingsman and Wanted.
But all the others are barely even worthy of being called adaptations. They keep the name, they keep the characters and the premise.
Can you imagine a Romeo and Juliet in which they live happily ever after or a Narnia in which Lucy is the traitor and she kills Aslan or a Lord of the Rings in which Sauramon and Sauron are the same characters and Sam dives on Frodo and Gollem at the end, hurtling all three of them over the edge and into the volcano? There would be an uproar. And those are relatively minor changes, when compared to comic book adaptations.
Sure you could say that when it comes to superheroes, that there are so many comics and so many versions of characters and stories within those comics and that they keep coming out with no end in sight. They would all be valid, though debatable, points. But comics like The Preacher and The Sandman are finite series written as works of literature. They should be treated as such and respected as such.



(Forgot to take my anti-ranting pills, this morning)
rabid
rabid - 10/8/2015, 8:41 AM
I'm fine with changes. Nobody wants to see the same story twice.
newmutantsRETURNS
newmutantsRETURNS - 10/8/2015, 10:46 AM
Going TWD route ...where the show is far from canon from the comics...I can dig it..
Snakeofdoom
Snakeofdoom - 10/8/2015, 6:09 PM
@DukeAcureds- Amen. I'm with you I honestly feel like I might as well be yelling into a thunder storm because nobody listens.
I never understand anyone who's like, "I'm such a fan and want to take this to another medium so everyone can see how great it is then promptly change everything about it so we can alienate the only actual built audience guaranteed to want to spend they're [frick]ing time/money to watch it.
If you don't want to make a faithful adaption because that would be boring then you're really not a fan are you? If you want to make an original movie/TV series than go do it, quit bending and breaking existing works that people love in order to fit your ideal of what they have to be to "work".
I've been rereading the series the past few weeks and it holds up really well. There are a few pop culture references that are pretty dated but over all it's still a crazy [frick]ing ride that will have to be completely [frick]ing neutered to make it to TV and it sounds like Rogan is just the neck-bearded asshole to hold the scissors.
SkeleTony
SkeleTony - 10/13/2015, 10:38 AM
DukeAcureds,

The Crow was NOT a comic book adaptation that was at all true to the source. It was one of the worst C2F adaptations ever filmed. Ypou should read James O-Barr's comic book(the GN/TPB specifically since it contains the ending) if you think the movie was any good.

TMNT(1990) was also not really rooted in the comics but more just an adaptation of the children's cartoon series. The Punisher (2004) may in some ways be true to some of the crappy comic books (I tried to read the comics that came after the Steven Grant/Mike Zeck limited series but found them so horribly bad in both art and writing that I stopped trying to read them after the first year of Mike Baron's regular series from the late 1980s) but it was still a terrible movie, made all the worse by Thomas Jane's casting (I cannot get behind the scrawny James Bond-styled generic Punisher than Klaus Jansen/Whilce Portacio etc. did).

As for changing things in movies, I do not have as much an issue with it as you provided the changes made are at least as good as the comic book source or better and some of the stuff we see in the comics SHOULD be changed in movies/TV shows because it is absurd. Things like garish costumes with 2 foot high yellow collars and rainbow colored torso pieces and such do not work well even in comics anymore and never worked well for movies and sometimes the scripting in popular comics was not great.
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