Preacher, based off the comic book series of the same name, is another hit on AMC. Made for TV by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, along with comic book creator Garth Ennis, the show has already gotten renewed for a second season. However, it was far from a certain thing. During a chat with Kevin Smith, they talked about the long road to get there.
“I did get cynical, Steve Dillon and I both got cynical actually.” Ennis said
“You could make a drinking game out of it.”Rogen chimed in. “Every time someone tries to make Preacher you take a drink. It was, I mean there was very little reason to believe that we could do it. We just happened to think we could.
“We couldn’t get the rights to it,” said Rogen. “We couldn’t get through to whoever was controlling the rights, which it was various producers and people like that.
“You could kind of get the vibe that “yeah you might make it nice but like, we need a serious director to even get it made” added Goldberg, “because it was a movie at that time, and they needed a big name to get the money to justify that as a film.”
One of the more difficult aspects was how quickly the book moved, and how it needed to be changed for TV.
“We’ve talked about this before, I mean I confirmed for them a suspicion that they’d arrived at anyway that they were going to have to change it. The breathless pace of the book just wouldn’t translate that way to the screen. They were going to have to calm it down a little bit, and I said just keep the spirit.”
Preacher will return in 2017.
