[Stu]

Fans won’t be seeing an adaptation of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s Preacher on HBO.

Mark Steven Johnson, who wrote the pilot and was set to serve as an executive producer, tells Comics Continuum that the new head of the cable network thought the series “was just too dark and too violent and too controversial.”

“It was a very faithful adaptation of the first few books, nearly word for word,” says Johnson, who directed Daredevil and Ghost Rider. “They offered me the chance to redevelop it but I refused. I’ve learned my lesson on that front and I won’t do it again. So I’m afraid it’s dead at HBO.”

Plans for the one-hour TV series, announced in November 2006, were welcome news for fans who had been disappointed when a previous attempt to adapt Preacher as a feature film was abandoned.

Johnson says there are efforts to give a movie another try: “I’ve heard someone is in the process of getting the rights to turn it into a feature film. I hope that happens. But I hope it happens as a series of movies as one movie couldn’t do it justice.”


blog.newsarama.com/2008/08/26/preacher-series-dead-at-hbo/

[OpTard]

yeah. i'm bummed.

if HBO doesn't have the balls for preacher they're doomed as a network.

or, at least as a good network.

[salmonjunkie]

Go to Showtime with it!

[Byrntrigan]

Wasn't Constantine the movie based off of Preacher? Or am I thinking of a different comic?

[The Jewish Cunthead]

Too dark, violent, and controversial? This from the same network that gave us Tales From The Crypt, The Sopranos, and Deadwood?

Keep sticking with shit like John From Cincinnati, fuckers.

[bdbdbd]

Constantine is another Vertigo comic (Hellblazer). He made his debut in Swamp Thing suring Alan Moore's fantastic run.

Oh, and, DEAR GOD NO I NEEDED THIS!

[salmonjunkie]

“It was a very faithful adaptation of the first few books, nearly word for word,” says Johnson, who directed Daredevil and Ghost Rider. “They offered me the chance to redevelop it but I refused. I’ve learned my lesson on that front and I won’t do it again. So I’m afraid it’s dead at HBO.”

Is he perhaps talking about Fox forcing him to tone down Daredevil for theatrical release?




MTA: HBO is stupid for not picking this up.


also, let's have fun with this. Who would you have play the cast of characters?

[Stu]

Jesse- I dunno. The only one I sorta veer towards is Jensen Ackles, but I dunno if he has enough of a "badass" quality to him
Tulip- Brittany Murphy
Cassidy- Colin Farrell (he'd just play himself, but as a vampire), though actually, he might work as Jesse, now that I think about it. He looks young enough, but still mature enough.
Herr Starr-James Woods
The Saint- The Undertaker

[bdbdbd]

Jesse - Hayden Christensen would be good if he hadn't fucked up Star Wars so much. The dude from that crappy Superman flick might work. Jon Rhys Meyers maybe? Can we use Forrest Gump tech to have James Dean play Jesse? He was the last person breathing to embody cool and badass like Jesse has to.

Tulip - either Jaime Pressley or Clea Duvall

Cass - Colin Farrell, yes, good choice.

Starr - Anthony Hopkins

Featherstone - Amy Poehler

Hoover - Mike Epps

Saint - Tom Waits. Every word he spoke I read as Tom Waits anyway.

Allfather - Tim Curry or John Malkovich in a fat suit

Gran'Ma - The Cryptkeeper puppet

Jody - Matt Morgan

T. C. - I don't think I want to know who could play T.C.

Odin Quincanon - Ross Perot?

Conan Quincanon - Dennis Hopper

Jesus - Is Marilyn Manson too cliche? Does he even look like that anymore?

[OpTard]

Aug 26, 2008 20:01:50 GMT -5 bdbdbd said:

Gran'Ma - The Cryptkeeper puppet

that is the epitome of EXALT!

[BTR]

Arseface: Ziggy Blumenthal

[Stu]

The Other Jody: Jane Lynch

[DevSop]

Why not try F/X or Showtime...both networks have shown a penchant for good dramas at this point and HBO has really dropped the ball on a number of things recently, and while I think True Blood has potential, the network is down to 1 drama at this point with Big Love and 1 comedy with Entourage.

From a network that's had Oz, The Wire, Sopranos, Deadwood, and Six Feet Under...that's a dramatic fucking drop.

[OpTard]

showtime would be good, but preacher done right is too much for FX. i love FX, they have very few rules. but for preacher to be done right you need NO rules.

unfortunately from the way the guy's talking, it doesn't look like they're gonna go the showtime route.

at least the guy's smart enough not to try to "make it work" for what they'll allow him to do and is basically saying we do it right or not at all.

[bdbdbd]

I actually think F/X could pull it off. Some of it, yeah, is too far for TV airing, but there's no reason they couldn't capitalize on that even. Film two versions: air the "tame" one, DVD the "hard" one. I could swear if not them someone else did that and fairly recently. F/X is the only network that I give a 2-3 episode "grace period" on any interesting looking series, they do good more than bad (the only thing I can think of recently that I out and out didn't like was Thief) and take risks a hell of a lot (no other network would have made Sunny in Philadelphia or Starved).

Preacher, assuming they'd let it run the full course (early talks had each issue as an hour long episode plus extra stuff being written) could be put along some of the episodes of Rescue Me, Damages, and the Shield for darkness and an expansion into "horror".

But then, I'm a nerd who wants a Black Panther movie.

[The Jewish Cunthead]

You didn't like Thief, Beady?

[bdbdbd]

I didn't. I did like the first season of D!irt though, so take that for what it's worth.