04-12-2014, 11:43
AMC ORDERS PREACHER PILOT
The TV adaptation of Garth Ennis' comic series, from Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, is going to pilot.
BY MATT FOWLERAMC has announced that it's ordered a pilot for a series based on the popular comic book franchise Preacher.
The project, from This is The End's Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen and Breaking Bad's Sam Catlin, was announced as part of AMC's development slate last February - with Goldberg even stating in March that their pilot would stay true to pages of Garth Ennis' comic series.
The Preacher pilot was written by Catlin, with Rogen and Goldberg attached to direct.
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“Every once in a while you find a project where all the elements line up beautifully. With Preacher, it starts with a bold, compelling, and thought-provoking comic book series from Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon and a whole lot of fans who already know Jesse Custer, Cassidy, and Tulip,” said Joel Stillerman, AMC’s executive vice president of original programming, production and digital content. “Add to that the passionate and talented Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and Sam Catlin, an incredible producing team in Neal Moritz, the Original Film team and our good friends at Sony Pictures Television, and we have everything we need to be VERY excited to move forward on ‘Preacher.’”
“Preacher has been our favorite comic since it first came out,” Rogen and Goldberg said. “Garth Ennis is one of our idols and it’s an incredible honor to be working on this. We promise we won’t make too many dick jokes and ruin it.”
Preacher Casting Call: Who Should Play Jesse, Tulip, Etc?
“Thanks to AMC for completely losing their minds and letting us do this,” Catlin said. “I’m so excited to bring Garth Ennis’ bloody, amazing and bloody amazing universe to TV.”
Garth Ennis said: “Steve Dillon and I are extremely pleased to know AMC has taken Preacher to pilot. We have had an ongoing voice in the efforts of the writers whom Sony TV and Original Film entrusted with this project, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and Sam Catlin, and have been most gratified that they continue to include us, and that they have tackled the project with the type of unwavering commitment and courage needed to present the material as Steve and I intended. This has been a long time coming, but that it continues apace, and with the chance to be delivered episodically, gives Preacher an opportunity to be seen in its best possible medium, not previously possible. And many thanks indeed to Ken Levin and Neal Moritz for their never flagging commitment to ‘Preacher,’ and for never giving up well past the point when I myself grew skeptical -- we have principally gotten to where we are today because of Neal and Ken.”
Based on Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s 90s comic book series, Preacher is about Jesse Custer, a conflicted Preacher in a small Texas town who merges with a creature that has escaped from heaven and develops the ability to make anyone do anything he says.
The pilot will be produced in the summer of 2015 for series consideration in 2016.![[Image: globhead_dpad_red.png]](http://oystatic.ignimgs.com/src/core/img/widgets/global/page/globhead_dpad_red.png)
The TV adaptation of Garth Ennis' comic series, from Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, is going to pilot.
BY MATT FOWLERAMC has announced that it's ordered a pilot for a series based on the popular comic book franchise Preacher.
The project, from This is The End's Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen and Breaking Bad's Sam Catlin, was announced as part of AMC's development slate last February - with Goldberg even stating in March that their pilot would stay true to pages of Garth Ennis' comic series.
The Preacher pilot was written by Catlin, with Rogen and Goldberg attached to direct.
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“Every once in a while you find a project where all the elements line up beautifully. With Preacher, it starts with a bold, compelling, and thought-provoking comic book series from Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon and a whole lot of fans who already know Jesse Custer, Cassidy, and Tulip,” said Joel Stillerman, AMC’s executive vice president of original programming, production and digital content. “Add to that the passionate and talented Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and Sam Catlin, an incredible producing team in Neal Moritz, the Original Film team and our good friends at Sony Pictures Television, and we have everything we need to be VERY excited to move forward on ‘Preacher.’”
“Preacher has been our favorite comic since it first came out,” Rogen and Goldberg said. “Garth Ennis is one of our idols and it’s an incredible honor to be working on this. We promise we won’t make too many dick jokes and ruin it.”
Preacher Casting Call: Who Should Play Jesse, Tulip, Etc?
“Thanks to AMC for completely losing their minds and letting us do this,” Catlin said. “I’m so excited to bring Garth Ennis’ bloody, amazing and bloody amazing universe to TV.”
Garth Ennis said: “Steve Dillon and I are extremely pleased to know AMC has taken Preacher to pilot. We have had an ongoing voice in the efforts of the writers whom Sony TV and Original Film entrusted with this project, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and Sam Catlin, and have been most gratified that they continue to include us, and that they have tackled the project with the type of unwavering commitment and courage needed to present the material as Steve and I intended. This has been a long time coming, but that it continues apace, and with the chance to be delivered episodically, gives Preacher an opportunity to be seen in its best possible medium, not previously possible. And many thanks indeed to Ken Levin and Neal Moritz for their never flagging commitment to ‘Preacher,’ and for never giving up well past the point when I myself grew skeptical -- we have principally gotten to where we are today because of Neal and Ken.”
Based on Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s 90s comic book series, Preacher is about Jesse Custer, a conflicted Preacher in a small Texas town who merges with a creature that has escaped from heaven and develops the ability to make anyone do anything he says.
The pilot will be produced in the summer of 2015 for series consideration in 2016.
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