Een aantal jaren geleden wees ShamRock (co-founder van Eigenwereld.nl) mij op de comic serie Preacher die onwijs vet was. Het verhaal van de dominee Jesse Custer in het Texaanse stadje Annville die bezeten is van een entiteit met de naam Genesis, die weer een kind is van een engel en een demoon. Hier door is Jesse niet je standaard dominee, maar één die behoorlijk gewelddadig is door zijn gevoel voor goed en kwaad dat hem in tweeën splijt. De Amerikaanse TV zender AMC heeft deze comic opgepakt en hier een TV serie van gemaakt die vanaf 29 mei op de Amerikaanse TV te zien zal zijn, en daarom had de website Collider een interview met de Showrunner Sam Catlin over Preacher en daar van kan je hier onder een kort stukje lezen.

Where to start is just one thing in a huge amount of story, how did you guys approach the line of staying faithful and doing what you wanted and changing things?

CATLIN: Well, I'd never adapted anything before, I didn't know what the rules were. I didn't know you could change things. So when I first started reading the comic, Seth and Evan brought it to me, and I was like, "I don't know how you make that a TV show. That's not a TV show, that's an amazing comic book." But once I started to figure out, "Okay, if the characters are here..." How do we make - Because if we were to shoot the comic book of Preacher, it would be like $400 or 500 million, we would be unproducible. So how do we make a show that is a TV show but pushes all of those boundaries in a similar way that doesn't feel like "Preacher Lite," or "Preacher TV." So, yeah. Once we figured out a way to bring the characters together and started to realize how we could parcel out the story, once we figured out where we could start.

I think that first idea came when - You know, he's sort of a preacher in name only in the comic book. You never see him as a preacher - very little - but he's immediately disillusioned and on his way out. And I think once we sort of figured out, well no, maybe we can still have this gonzo world and have all these crazy things happening and he's still trying to be a preacher, still kind of trying to do preacher shit. And help people, but not in a boring navel-gazing way, but sort of a spiritual sheriff to this town and once we came up with this idea of this really sin-soaked town that needs redemption, that needs a good preacher, it felt like that was a good place to start with it.