According to the Hollywood Reporter HBO is developing Preacher for television, with Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon onboard as co-executive producers. The pilot is being written by Mark Steven Johnson of Daredevil and the still-to-be-seen Ghost Rider fame with Howard Deutch set to direct. Given HBO’s gritty, adult dramas and their success record let’s hope the pilot works out and we get a series.
Preacher was due to go down the movie route at one point, but to be honest I think Preacher would work far better as a series than shoe-horned into a couple of hours of film. And since it is HBO I think we can assume the sex, violence, bad language and blasphemy we loved so much in the comic will probably survive the translation to small screen. More as we hear it.
Thu, Nov 30, 2006
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