preacher: the movie

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?

the first sin city looked, more or less, like it leapt from the comic.
the fun home musical does an amazing job through casting, costuming, makeup and set design of feeling like the characters walked out of the comic... though much of the story is shuttled around and different

i think i can live a full life without ever seeing the spirit movie

xxxpost One should take it that I've never seen a Tintin movie (hence the ?).

The Tintin animated TV series was fairly faithful to Herge's style, but yeah, the CGI movie is about as far from it as you can get.

I can't remember the Watchmen movie trying to emulate Gibbon's art to the screen in any significant way? Obviously the hyperdetailed panels and steady rhythm of the 3x3 grid is kinda hard to transfer to moving images, but IIRC Snyder didn't even use the one part that could have worked in cinema, i.e. the constantly recurring visual symbols and shapes.

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The Spirit movie has some homages to Eisner's work IIRC but it's inevitably drowned in Miller's excess

Revive! There was some discussion on the TV series in the Marvel cinema thread, but it'd be better to continue it here, where we don't have to avoid spoilers.

I read somewhere that Odin Quincanon is going to be one of the major villains of the series, a guy who if you remember turned up in probably the most boring Preacher storyline way way into the run.

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I guess I can understand why they'd do this, because Quincannon is pretty much the most harmless, least blasphemous villain in the series, so using him won't make any viewers angry. But it'd still be a boring choice.

Um, dude fucked a giant woman made out of meat. Just sayin'.

It seems like a mistake to try adapting this comic anytime after the turn of the millennium.

I know what he fucked, but he's still the least offensive villain in the comic, since his story doesn't involve making fun of Christians or gays or disabled people. The only thing that Ennis mocks in that arc is the KKK, which shouldn't lead to too many angry protests if adapted to TV.

i would guess the series is gonna bear only the slightest resemblance to the book and thank god

It only dawned on me yesterday that Jesse is played by the guy who plays/played Howard Stark in the MCU.

Literally the only enticing aspect of this for me.

Oh, okay, I didn't realize Ruth Negga from Agents of SHIELD was playing Tulip. That's two enticing, Marvel-related aspects.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/05/18/amc-offers-the-first-four-minutes-of-preacher/

I'll watch the first ep or two out of respect for the me who bought these on the newsstand but i am highly skeptical

yeah, that's pretty much where i am too.

dominic cooper is terrible at american accents so i'm morbidly curious at how badly he'll mangle a southern accent - he also seems about 10 years too old to be playing jesse

I was reading a thing yesterday about how this has been Seth Rogen's passion project for over a decade and I thought, 'Really? Preacher?' It's like cashing your chips to make a biopic about the Bloodhound Gang.

lol, that was my take too but rogen has made millions of dollars marketing to the slightly too cool for kevin smith crowd so why stop now?
dude made a fucking green hornet movie for crissakes

I don't think that footage looks too bad, but I'm mildly annoyed that they've cast such a handsome dude to play Arseface. The whole point of the character is he's fucking grotesque! In no way does this guy look he blew half his head off with a shotgun.

http://cdn1-www.comingsoon.net/assets/uploads/2016/03/arsefaceheader.jpg

he does in the way that the lower half of his face looks like an asshole

How would a shotgun do that without Cobaining the top half of his head as well?

alan sepinwall - who's about as reliable a TV critic there is and purports to love the comic - had a v positive review http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/review-why-seth-rogens-preacher-was-wise-to-chart-a-course-away-from-the-comics

(no spoilers)

purports to love the comic

thing is if you're a grown adult who still loves preacher i dunno if i trust yr judgement

Should we get a mod to change the thread title to "preacher: the tv show" and move it to ILE?

I enjoyed this. The accents are pretty much all wack, but the tone of the comics is there, and Ruth Negga is fantastic as Tulip.

don't rewrite history imo

Hands up who exactly would be surprised if Rogen announced that his next project would be a biopic about the Bloodhound Gang.

i really liked this!

i like how they've set up the show to stand on its own. cast is great - accent are def garbage but the comedy & personalities are well set

i was a fan of the comics in college but it was def of its own time, like i nostalgically went back & reread them a while back & was like hmmm nope. I didnt want a slavish recreation of the original, so i guess some of my enjoyment of the show is partly just relief

I'll give it a chance but I'll be giving it as much side-eye as I would a televisual adaptation of Strangers In Paradise (speaking of comics we enjoyed in college but which in hindsight make us wonder if we perhaps indulged in too many judgment-impairing extracurricular vices in college).

oh man, strangers in paradise.

has anyone tried to option love and rockets? I know hate and velvet glove both went through development hell.

I believe Locas rights were bought once long ago, not sure about Palomar.

i would imagine the option would've been dropped this late in the game.
that said if there were ever a time for a Locas miniseries, i imagine it would be now? No idea how Palomar would play.

In, iirc, the Gaiman interview, Los Bros said they wanted the L&R film to be both Locas and Palomar stories

I can't really think of any alt/underground/indie comics I would be excited to see turned into a movie or TV show. Love L&R to death but I cannot imagine an adaptation being anything but awful. Ghost World was way better than it had any business being but it still wasn't really Clowes, and Art School Confidential was terrible.

Despite moaning earlier on about Arseface being too handsome, now I've seen how they're doing the character on screen I think I get where they're going with him. It seems like they're making a lot of effort to portray him more sympathetically than Ennis did in the comic, where he was pretty much just a walking punchline. I think I'm okay with that.

Ennis's "fuck everything" misanthropy seems very juvenile now, doesn't it. When I first picked up Preacher I couldn't believe I was reading all this transgressive shit in a comic, but since then I've read a lot more comics, and it seems a little less impressive.

Arseface was portrayed fairly sympathetically in the comic, iirc. I remember him being one of the only decent people in that universe.

I think I ultimately wound up pretty strongly disliking the core cast. I doubt that was intentional.

Preacher worked best as a serial comic entertainment, delivered on a monthly basis by a very reliable artist - one issue a month just about the right ration. I gave up reading before the end, but the impression I had was that the ending was not universally loved, even by fans of the comic?

I don't know that I was ever that much of a fan, actually (mostly just way into Vertigo at the time, although I should've followed my instincts after lamenting when Ennis took over Hellblazer), but I did read the whole thing. Don't remember the ending much but I don't remember anything positive about it.

i have the full series on my shelf somewhere, i suppose i should reacquaint

Ennis's "fuck everything" misanthropy seems very juvenile now, doesn't it.

He's definitely juvenile, but I'd hardly class Ennis as misanthropic. If anything he's a sentimentalist

masculinist sentimentalist methinks

first ep was okay, probably better than I was expecting (genuine lols at 'tom cruise explodes') although cooper's accent was even worse than i feared it would be. he's too old and pug-faced for jesse but i liked tulip and cassidy fine

best thing was the opening scene in outer space with the b-movie fx

i'll stick around for a few episodes but i guess the real acid test will be how they handle the more classically ennis material