Seth Rogen Debuts PREACHER Poster, Show May Premiere in 2016
Not long ago, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and Breaking Bad writer/producer Sam Catlin wrapped production on the pilot of their television adaptation of Preacher, the awesome 1990s comic series by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon. The comic was controversial for multiple reasons, but it followed a preacher imbued with the literal power of God who teamed with his gun-toting girlfriend Tulip and a hard-drinking vampire named Cassidy to find God when He bails from his post in heaven. There's also a subplot about a kid named Arseface who tries to mimic Kurt Cobain by blowing his face off with a shotgun (it doesn't kill him, only horribly disfigures him), and an immortal cowboy named The Saint of Killers who is out to kill the preacher. It's totally insane, and one of the best comics I've ever read. You should all try to catch up with it before the show debuts.
Speaking of which: Rogen went on Twitter and shared the first poster for the AMC series.
An earlier tweet indicated that the show would premiere in May of 2016, but Rogen deleted that and then tweeted "may not air in May...but sometime in 2016" before deleting that one as well and posting the one above. Rogen makes it sound like the show has been officially picked up, but there's no official confirmation of that from the network as of yet. If it does get picked up, it's set for a ten episode run. I'm incredibly curious to see what these guys can do with such wild source material, especially in a culture in which outrage fuels think pieces and controversies are generated on a daily basis. I can see this show being the cause of a lot of outrage as soon as it goes on the air, so we'll see how it all plays out.
Dominic Cooper, Joseph Gilgun, Ian Colletti, and Ruth Negga star.