With it being in the works for the better part of ten years in trying to get it made, Preacher is on that cusp of reality through Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who have managed to really do some solid stuff in the last few years after kicking off the change in careers with Superbad and Pineapple Express. Now that they’ve got the go-ahead at AMC and are working with Garth Ennis into reality, the questions are being tossed their way and Evan Goldberg is definitely doing what he can to ease some of the concerns of fans while also making the reality of the adaptation clear.
“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.”
With AMC being receptive to comic book based works of certain natures, it makes sense that they ended up here, even if folks were pining for HBO.
“We’re beyond excited, we’ve tried to make it for 10 years. The big difference is everyone else tried to make it a movie and it shouldn’t be a movie. It should be an AMC show, that’s the proper way for it to get done… 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.”
[Source: Collider]
