AMC bestelt een pilot van Preacher

RDJ134 4 december 2014 om 19:36 uur

Het is al weer heel wat jaren gelden dat goede vriend, crew lid en mede geek Shamrock mij kennis liet maken met de comic Preacher die echt heel erg goed is. Het goede nieuws is nu, dat deze een pilot aflevering gaat krijgen op de Amerikaanse TV zender AMC waar ook The Walking Dead (gebaseerd op de gelijknamige comic) te zien is. Wij van Eigenwereld.nl houden deze ontwikkeling dan ook heel erg goed in de gaten voor je.


Ever since the Vertigo Comics series premiered in 1995, there have been talks of adapting Garth Ennis' darkly comic and ultra-violent supernatural western "Preacher" in one form or another. At one point, Academy Award winner Sam Mendes was even planning on directing a big screen version. After a number of false stars, however, it sounds like "Preacher" is finally on the way as a television series with AMC today revealing that they have set a pilot commitment for the upcoming show with plans to shoot in 2015 and, if all goes well, premiere as a series in 2016.

Created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, "Preacher" tells the story of a down-and-out Texas preacher possessed by Genesis, a supernatural entity conceived by the unnatural coupling of an angel and a demon. Given immense powers, the preacher, teamed with an old girlfriend and a hard-drinking Irish vampire, set out on a journey across America to find God - who apparently had abandoned his duties in heaven - and hold him accountable for his negligence.​

"Every once in a while you find a project where all the elements line up beautifully," says Joel Stillerman,AMC's Executive Vice President of Original Programming, Production and Digital Content. "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.'"

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