Seth Rogen Teases Start Of PREACHER Filming
Filming for AMC's Preacher adaptation has officially begun according to Seth Rogen's twitter. With Dominic Cooper as Jesse Custer, Ruth Negga s Tulip and Joe Gilgun as Cassidy, how do you think Preacher will fare on the network that brought us The Walking Dead?
Filing on the pilot of AMC's Preacher adaptation is apparently underway according to Seth Rogen's Twitter. Rogen developed the adaptation with Evan Goldberg and Breaking Bad's Sam Catlin. The show will star Dominic Cooper as Jesse Custer, Ruth Negga as Tulip O'Hare and Joe Gilgun as Cassidy. Also appearing on the show are 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.
The new AMC series will mark the first successful adaptation of Preacher in a long line of failures. Garth Ennis wrote a script for a film adaptation back in 1998 but financial concerns and religious pressure put a halt on development. Miramax then purchased film rights for Preacher but never developed a working script and ultimately let the rights lapse. Next up, was HBO, who secured rights and brought in Mark Steven Johnson and Howard Deutch to pen a script. However, a turnover at the upper levels of HBO resulted in Preacher being abandoned. Columbia Pictures then secured the rights for Preacher in 2008 and at various times, hired D.J. Caruso and Sam Mendes to develop Preacher as a film adaptation. Ultimately, it was Rogen, Peter and Caitlin who convinced the executives at Sony that Preacher would work better in the long-form story format of television. Development on AMC's pilot began in 2013 and it looks like filming is about to begin today.
How excited are you to see Preacher on the television screen? Sound off below with your thoughts and opinions. The series is expected to debut late-2015.
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