HBO can't handle Preacher!

[Guy Gardener]

Jessie is John Wayne, Gary Cooper even. A man of his word who sees though the righteousness of any situation to it's conclusion no matter the cost or consequences.

Imagine Gary Cooper in Seven or Pulp Fiction? How an honest man with a simple value system would carry through when such ludicrous premises are trying to drown him in ambiguity?

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Give it to Showtime. They'll take it. Hell, HBO passed on Mad Men. Someone's judgment is pretty suspect.

Bingo!

Yeah something's going wrong with them...no Best Drama Emmy nominee this year, either. You'd think that would light a fire under somebody's ass.

I don't know zip about Preacher from the comics. I just want to see any show that will scare HBO.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Bert and Ernie: A love Story on Ice.

Scaring HBO is easy. there's no way they'd be able to use a character like Assface.

 

[misskim86]

NO!!!!!!!! OMG no!!!

*cries*

I was so looking forward to see Preacher.

Praying someone else picks it up.

 

[Thrall]

This is such bullshit. Preacher is the greatest comic book ever made. Not trying to make a good live action version of it is a crime against man. Garth Ennis is the best writer of all time and makes Billy Shakespeare look like smut on a bathroom stall in comparison. You better believe I'm serious.

 

[Angel4576]

This is such bullshit. Preacher is the greatest comic book ever made.

Close call between Preacher and Sandman for me. Ennis is great, but then, so is Gaiman.

Sadly, it now looks like neither will ever get made.

 

[Roger Wilco]

I just want a Fables tv series.

 

[misskim86]

I think Preacher is 10/10 while Sandman is 9.9/10

While I'd love a Sandman show I think Preacher would be so much easier for non comic fans to take

 

[zenophite]

Oh no! The writer/director of such cinematic masterpieces as Daredevil and Ghost Rider can't make a Preacher series.

However shall I cope with this?

is that who was going to do it? Oh boy it's probably best that this gets passed on to someone else if it is as good as people say.

 

[firehawk12]

Well... shit. I can't believe HBO dumped it for being too dark. Who's the new head anyway?

 

[Thrall]

This is such bullshit. Preacher is the greatest comic book ever made.

Close call between Preacher and Sandman for me. Ennis is great, but then, so is Gaiman.

Sadly, it now looks like neither will ever get made.

I actually just started reading Sandman last night. It was pretty good actually. Really bizarre but very engrossing. I've started on a Gaiman kick recently. I've read American Gods, Ananasi Boys, and Good Omens. Good Omens was by far my favorite, because it was just funny as shit.

 

[Norrin Radd]

I've never thought Preacher was Sandman-level quality. It was really good, but not that good. To me, much of its novelty relies too much on shock value.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

It's not till god eats one of his eye balls falling out of an airplane riding a nuke bareback that Jessie starts talking about final solutions.

Yeah, this sounds like a great idea for a tv show. What could HBO be thinking?

 

[Thrall]

I've never thought Preacher was Sandman-level quality. It was really good, but not that good. To me, much of its novelty relies too much on shock value.

Yeah but that's kind of Ennis's trademark. You know, the insane, over-the-top, Trey Parkeresque, Rated R version of a Roadrunner cartoon, scathing, satire. That's one of the things I love about him. You never know what the next insane fucking thing he's going to do is.

 

[Harvey]

I haven't read the comics, but I was looking forward to this. What is going on with HBO? Curb Your Enthusiasm will be coming to an end sooner rather than later. Six Feet Under is long gone. The Sopranos have left. The Wire is over.

Meanwhile, I'm loving Dexter and Californication (even if Weeds is awful) over on Showtime (or, rather, on DVD).

 

[Turtletrekker]

Oh no! The writer/director of such cinematic masterpieces as Daredevil and Ghost Rider can't make a Preacher series.

However shall I cope with this?

There's always a silver lining...

 

[misskim86]

I've never thought Preacher was Sandman-level quality. It was really good, but not that good. To me, much of its novelty relies too much on shock value.

Yeah but that's kind of Ennis's trademark. You know, the insane, over-the-top, Trey Parkeresque, Rated R version of a Roadrunner cartoon, scathing, satire. That's one of the things I love about him. You never know what the next insane fucking thing he's going to do is.

The problem is that it's gotten old now in The Boys

 

[exodus]

Too reach an audience that normally doesn't read comics.

Yeah, but it's such a different medium. If they made an animated cartoon out of it, I'd understand, but otherwise it just seems out of place. I mean, that's not some clean, friendly superhero - it's the fucking Preacher.

That's the point.

When the mass public thiinks comic book, they do think superhero. It's time for comic book based live action stories to let them know, comic books aren't all about superheros or just for children.

 

[Guy Gardener]

300? Road to Perdition?

 

[Steve Roby]

Might've been interesting then again the source material is too judeo-christian for my taste.

Um...what? Have you actually read Preacher??

Dunno about zenophite, but I read the first dozen or so issues, and of course it was Judeo-Christian. It just wasn't a particularly positive or favourable portrayal. I quit reading it because it was about the fourth thing I'd read by Garth Ennis that was about "ooh do I have issues with Christianity" and "ooh I'm so shocking." In Hellblazer, at least, Ennis did a lot of good character stuff and wasn't focusing on the shock value. I really liked the work he did there, which is why I started reading Preacher.

Bashing Christianity all the time gets boring. I'm an ex-Catholic and an atheist now, and I have no love for Christianity, but I have a life. I don't need to spend all my time obsessing about something I left behind. (So to speak.) As for the shock value... it's not sustainable. Ever read the Marquis de Sade? I read The 120 Days of Sodom years ago. Every possible depravity is explored in all its permutations, and boy does it get boring.

So: boring subject matter, boring presentation, and I never cared enough about the characters to get past that.

FWIW, I don't for a minute believe that there would have been a faithful TV adaptation of the comic. It'd likely have been changed beyond recognition.