God Help Us

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index...ory=1&id=39049

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HBO is developing a one-hour series based on the popular 1990s Vertigo comic series Preacher, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Mark Steven Johnson, who directed the comic-book adaptations Daredevil and the upcoming Ghost Rider for the big screen, is writing the pilot. Howard Deutch (The Whole Ten Yards) is set to direct. Johnson and Deutch will executive-produce along with Michael De Luca, George Agusto, Chris Bender and J.C. Spink.

The comic series, created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, ran from 1995 to 2000. It told the story of a down-and-out Texas preacher possessed by a supernatural entity conceived by the unnatural coupling of an angel and a demon. Given immense powers, the preacher sets out with an old girlfriend and a hard-drinking Irish vampire on a journey across America to find God—who apparently had abandoned his duties in heaven—and hold him accountable for his negligence. Ennis and Dillon will serve as co-executive producers of the HBO series.

The latest incarnation of the project follows several attempts to bring the comic to the screen, including a proposed feature film starring James Marsden, which would have been produced by Kevin Smith and had a reported budget of $25 million, the trade paper reported.

Sounds interesting, but the whole affair leaves a lot of concerns for me. Not least of which is that the guy who directed the Daredevil movie is writing the pilot.

A lot of what made Preacher tolerable and humorous was that the comic format gave it a cartooney feel. The entire presentation and art style drove home the fact that Preacher was a comic to be enjoyed and not absorbed.

Turning it into a miniseries, no less an HBO miniseries is probably going to make the whole thing more creepy than fun.

My fears could be entirely unfounded, but the way HBO keeps trying to "up the ante," making a show about attempting to hold a negligible egomaniac God accountable and a massive subplot surrounding the inbred descendants of Jesus Christ sounds like the kind of stuff that would set the Evangelical community on fire.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

They had busts and molds for the arseface character that was going to be used in the botched Preacher movie, I think.

EDIT: Here you go.

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Was there any notable reaction to the comic book in the Christian community, or did it fly under their radar?

Comics aren't exactly mainstream media. It's easy for something like hentai manga, for instance, to fly completely under the radar of any watchdog group.

Also, the Evangelical Community at the time Preacher was being published wasn't nearly as loud-mouthed as it is nowadays.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

It's not even that so much as they are a loud voice.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I remember I realized Spawn was a piece of shit when I read that one self-masturbatory issue where McFarlane used a non-canonical character to say that DC and Marvel suckz, but Spawn would like, be always great because Todd loves him and owns him, and would never ever give him away not in a million bajillion years so he'd ALWAYS BE AWSUM, not like those other guys.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?