Preacher is an upcoming American television series developed by Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen and Sam Catlin for AMC. It is an adaptation of the comic book series created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, and published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint. The series was officially picked up on September 9, 2015, with a ten-episode order and is scheduled to premiere in mid-2016
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. Along with his ex-girlfriend, Tulip, and an Irish vampire named Cassidy, the three embark on a journey to literally find God.
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Dominic Cooper as Jesse Custer: A small town preacher who is on a mission to find God.
Ruth Negga as Tulip O'Hare: The gun-toting ex of Custer.
Joe Gilgun as Cassidy: An Irish Vampire and the best friend of Custer.
W. Earl Brown as Sheriff Hugo Root: The mean-hearted father of Eugene Root, a flinty-eyed, conspiracy-credulous redneck who is not a fool and has a vulnerability to him.
Tom Brooke as Fiore: one of two Adelphi angels tasked with watching the half-demon, half-angelic creature named 'Genesis'.
Recurring
Ian Colletti as Eugene Root / Arseface: A character disfigured after shooting himself in the face with a shotgun and surviving.
Lucy Griffiths as Emily Woodrow: A character described as a "no-nonsense" single mother, waitress, church organist, bookkeeper and Custer's loyal right hand
Elizabeth Perkins as Vyla Quinncannon: A genteel but formidable businesswoman who owns the local slaughterhouse in Annville, and shares a past with Jesse's father.
Jamie Anne Allman as Betsy Schenck: A Meek wife who suffers beatings by the hand of her husband, Donny.
Derek Wilson as Donny Schenck: A Civil War re-enactor and abusive thug who gets into altercations with Jesse Custer but nevertheless shows up to church on Sunday.
I don't know what to think. The cast doesn't click with me.
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b: the use or language of sarcasm
I'm worried it will have little to do with the story from the comics . Even HBO said that the script from Ennis was too controversial for them.
sar·casm | \ ˈsär-ˌka-zəm \
1: a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain
2a: a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual
b: the use or language of sarcasm
Even HBO said that the script from Ennis was too controversial for them.
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Damn.. Now I'm officially worried this will be shit
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"If you read Preacher, it has some obviously graphic violence and language and other things that we will not bring to the commercial television series," AMC president Charlie Collier told THR at the time. "But I love that the fans will know that we'll treat it with respect and that will elevate it and not dumb it down. And that matters. It's an amazing piece of writing and character. Where do you see a character like that on television?"
Motherfuckers....
"treat it with respect "?? Censoring is now called "treating with respect"?? Fuck you.
Truth be told Preacher IS too controversial for non-night hours of any normal TV, though. It's extremely violent, features incest, rape, deformation, fucks with religion, law, pretty much everything you can imagine. That guy with the strange face up above? You wanna know what he's called? That's Arseface He (comic book spoiler)
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Became that way by way of a failed suicide using a gun. "Shoulda put it in your mouth, you dumb little fuck" - was his father's caring comment That very father was later kindly asked to "fuck himself" by Custer, which he, of course, had to do literally, so they found him with his severed dick up his ass.
So... yeah That's the kind of thing Preacher is. Game of Thrones is a very docile child's cartoon compared to this. But it's still good, because it doesn't ride just on this stuff.
I think this one's gonna be just like Lucifer. It might actually be a decent-not-great watch, but it'll irritate anyone who read the series, because of just how infinitely better it could've been.
Anyone doubting that the seminal 1990s comic series Preacher could be successfully translated for television may now consider their concerns moot. The pilot episode of the upcoming AMC series based on Garth Ennis’ lengthy, insane look at American culture that premiered today during SXSW turns out to be a textbook example of understanding the difference between the letter and the spirit of the law. Expanding on the comic’s philosophical themes while (for budgetary reasons) minimizing its scope, the series from exec producers Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and Sam Catlin embraces the archetype-heavy world in which it takes place fully without, descending into either camp or self-seriousness.
Truth be told Preacher IS too controversial for non-night hours of any normal TV, though. It's extremely violent, features incest, rape, deformation, fucks with religion, law, pretty much everything you can imagine. That guy with the strange face up above? You wanna know what he's called? That's Arseface He (comic book spoiler)
Spoiler:
Became that way by way of a failed suicide using a gun. "Shoulda put it in your mouth, you dumb little fuck" - was his father's caring comment That very father was later kindly asked to "fuck himself" by Custer, which he, of course, had to do literally, so they found him with his severed dick up his ass.
So... yeah That's the kind of thing Preacher is. Game of Thrones is a very docile child's cartoon compared to this. But it's still good, because it doesn't ride just on this stuff.
I think this one's gonna be just like Lucifer. It might actually be a decent-not-great watch, but it'll irritate anyone who read the series, because of just how infinitely better it could've been.
Pretty much this. I have the whole series and there's really no way to bring this to film without just making it a movie and releasing it out into the wild.
There was a HUUUUGE ordeal over the comics when it came out that Christians tried to get it banned from the shelves because of everything said above. Thus why DC decided to put it under the Vertigo name, where all their controversial stuff ends up.
Airing this on any popular network would be financial suicide so I can't really blame them.
Human Centipede is rather tame compared to what the whole Preacher series is about. The only movie I know of off the top of my head that could really enter the ring with it would be A Serbian Film. Not for the sex stuff but just the reaction it invokes in people who are offended by everything.
Ya HBO and showtime will show ballsacks and show people's heads getting cut off, but they don't show a preacher that's possessed by genesis and has the power of jesus and who's out to murder god and even yells it out that he's
Just some bits, I couldn't find shots of the really offensive stuff. I'd have to go through the books for them. Seriously though, if you hate comics, you should still read this.
in a post Q&A screening (Source: Live Periscope on Twitter), Rogen and Goldberg said the reason the trailer seems totally different to the comic is that the first half of Season One is essentially Preacher 0.5. Taking place a little bit before Gone To Texas, but they promise that all the bizarre fan-favourites will all appear and the show will start to look a lot like Ennis' Preacher.
So maybe they haven't cut out all the amazing stuff them comics got.
What pisses me off is how they changed the look of characters. They may be a good actors but why Cassidy takes of his glasses (it was part of his character) and why they made Tulip a mulatto is beyond me. The comics took its share of showing the bigotry of people in US.
sar·casm | \ ˈsär-ˌka-zəm \
1: a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain
2a: a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual
b: the use or language of sarcasm
I wonder how a Transmetropolitan series would turn...
Better not...
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b: the use or language of sarcasm
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. Even HBO said that the script from Ennis was too controversial for them.
That very father was later kindly asked to "fuck himself" by Custer, which he, of course, had to do literally, so they found him with his severed dick up his ass.
