preacher: the movie

bleeped tho

Or Blurred.

http://needcoffee.cachefly.net/needcoffee/uploads/2009/01/fuck-communism-lighter.jpg

Shooting in Regina (where I live) this summer with a budget of $15 million.
will post more when I learn more.

lol

ugh seth rogan adaptation, no thank you

i mean whatever, he might be the right person for this but i guess the person i am now is not the right person to watch it.

he's not writing it though. do you hate Catlin's episodes of Breaking Bad?

Which ones are they?

s2e4, "Down"
s2e9, "4 Days Out"
s3e4, "Green Light"
s3e10, "Fly"
s3e12, "Half-Measures"
s4e3, "Open House"
s4e8, "Hermanos"
s4e11, "Crawl Space"
s5e4, "Fifty-One"
s5e12, "Rabid Dog" (also directed)

yeah, that's good stuff. i am torn now.

i'll give it a chance if it makes it to series. it won't be the same without the excessive swearing though

Yeah I'll definitely watch it. Preacher's a good yarn for all its faults.

If they stick to the comics, "Mom?" will be the scene I'll anticipate.

This thread isn't about the movie called Preacher that I thought it was about.

This seems like a weird idea... I mean, no way can they use the whole God subplot (especially its conclusion) on American TV, right? And if they don't use it, the whole premise of the story is changed.

And even though The Da Vinci Code did popularize the whole "Jesus had kids and his bloodline is still around" theory, I can imagine some viewers getting a bit upset if the series uses Ennis's particular version of Jesus's descendants.

Atheism is hot and sexy these days -- I could see them using everything from the book. Maybe even the "fuck"s, with bleeps, which would kinda be hilarious.

SPOILERS!!

But the series isn't really about atheism, it's about the Christian god being a manipulative jerk, and his followers being idiots and/or dangerous and violent fanatics, and it ends with said god and his angels being shot to death, which is seen as a justified act of revenge and generally a good thing. So even if "atheism is hot and sexy", I'd assume those plot points would be quite controversial.

Executive producers tend to be fairly hands-off, don't they? I expect Rogan & Goldberg's involvement helped get this commissioned, but they probably won't be hugely involved beyond that.

So glad it wasn't the Daredevil guy who ended up doing it. Can only imagine what a trainwreck that would've been.

Daredevil guy = Ben Affleck?

Haha, no. Mark Steven Johnson, writer-director of Daredevil(and GHOST RIDER!), was apparently lined-up for show-running duties when this was still at HBO.

apparently = wrote a pilot and plotted multiple new stories with Ennis for a year or three

Okay, I thought you were talking about Affleck, because years ago it was rumoured he'd be playing Jesse Custer in a Preacher movie.

What happened to huk-l anyway?

welp, this don't look much like the series in any way, which is a step in the right direction but seth rogen so
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNgI2sRzr8I

weird how they completely avoided admitting any supernatural element, though i'm pretty sure it's still in there
if it's not like the comic book in any way, what's the point?

It's pretty weird, the official copy accompanying the Youtube video says "a supernatural Preacher, a gun-toting ex, and an Irish vampire are coming to AMC mid-2016", but the video shows absolutely none of those elements, not even Tulip's guns. Cassidy has a few lines, but the vampire thing isn't alluded to, you'd think that would a selling point with all the succesful vampire series of recent years? Though based on the trailer it seems more like they're trying to market this as a Breaking Bad -style hard-boiled crime series, so maybe they thought vampirism would attract the wrong kind of crowd?

and yet they advertised this during the Walking Dead 90-min special last night...

test a bunch of promotional approaches, gauge which ones work best, stress those in the leadup, air the series you were going to air all along (maybe with a little tweaking in post)

if it's not like the comic book in any way, what's the point?

― Nhex, Monday, November 2, 2015 10:27 AM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't know how many times I've asked this question over the years. What's the point in everything hinging on a particular property if you're going to tweak said property to the point where it's unrecognizable to its existing fanbase and it isn't well-known enough to lure newcomers via brand recognition? Take a peek at the upcoming Lucifer show for similar shenanigans. Why make an original procedural about the devil helping the police solve crimes when you can take a shit all over something that already exists?

Mind you, I think straying from Preacher's roots can only be an improvement.

I think the main story and main characters in Preacher are pretty good and might make for a decent TV series. It's all the extra stuff, the macho posturing, the homophobic minor characters, Ennis' anti-PC rants, etc, which makes it less than perfect.

And by 'extra stuff', you of course mean the bulk of the series.

i guess i'm "lucky" i read the series without caring too much about the politics at the time

I wasn't exactly a paragon of maturity when I read the series (or now, to be fair) but I still remember thinking it was often over the top juvenile.

I couldn't finish the first trade paper collection. It's a tossup between Transmetropolitan and Preacher for worst series I've tried to get into.

If your age didn't start with a 1 when you started reading either, that totally makes sense.

Transmet is at least 60x worse than Preacher though

Yes - Preacher also much better drawn than Transmet (not that ILC ever seems to give much of a shit about the pictures side of the word/image equation)

Agreed. For all his faults, Ennis at least knows how to writer interesting, well fleshed-out characters. In fact, I'd say characterization is probably his greatest strength, the problems only arise when he decides to make them a mouthpiece for whatever rant he has on his mind this month. This is why I though Boys as a whole was better than Preacher... In that comic he usually toned down the rants (though The Legends still gets a few lengthy ones), and it also felt like he was genuinely trying to tackle with chauvinism/sexism present in his earlier work with the character arcs of Wee Hughie and Starlight.

warren ellis only knows how to write 2 characters: idealised warren ellises and the straw men they kick in the balls

Preacher had some good plotting, entertaining dialogue and exciting twists and turns for all its faults. Literally no idea how the series will turn out.

(not that ILC ever seems to give much of a shit about the pictures side of the word/image equation)

? This is not the case at all ime.

C+F - no matches found for Steve Dillon

This thread is for the movie/TV adaptation of Preacher though... Seems much more likely that they'll adapt Ennis' stories than Dillon's art, so the pictures aren't really a big part of the discussion.

It's an interesting question though: are there many comic book movies/shows that have tried to adapt the visual style of the source material, and not just the story? Off the top of my head, the only examples I can think of are Sin City. Persepolis, and the Corto Maltese movie. And I guess some anime movies too, like Akira. But obviously this is easier to do with animation than with live action, is Sin City the only movie that tried the latter?

I think in live-action comic book movies/shows, most of the times they only add a few shots that homage specific panels/pages, like the recent episode of the Flash series that did homage to the famous "Flash of Two Worlds" cover image.

advance publicity for Beatty's Dick Tracy made a huge deal about how comics-like the block-colours production design was, apparently all written by PRs and reporters who had never looked at a panel of Gould.

other not too successful examples: Snyder's Watchmen and his upcoming Supes vs. Bats

Tintin?

scott pilgrim

oh yeah, definitely. Scott Pilgrim the film also continued the visual motifs that the comic used in aping video games as well

Tintin?

a) rotoscoping is not live-action, and b) one takes it you have never read a Tintin book

Scott Pilgrim fantastic at capturing the mixture of intimacy and vivacity of the comic, but not that visually similar on a style basis. especially for being in rich, saturated colour

Not seen Miller's Spirit movie - does he emulate Eisner visuals at any point?

I got 340 bucks for the full series btw, think i undersold but happy to have the room on my shelf.

That seems like a good price. are old floppies like old vinyls now?

Wow. I'm not sure what I have in the way of the spin offs but certainly have the original 60 odd issues. Not entirely sure where they are but...

Walking Dead number one is selling for thousands; there's a sudden surge on preacher insofar as if it becomes popular it's a CULTURAL TOUCHSTONE
seems silly but happy to have it happen. Now what do I do with the other 5000 odd floppies? Do people want full runs of Howard the Duck anymore?

I got 340 bucks for the full series btw, think i undersold but happy to have the room on my shelf.

Got the 9 volumes out the door for $130, very happy about that

Also stuck up Troubled Souls and For A Few Troubles More by Ennis & McCrea, which are at $50 and $45 respectively with 5 days to go