Preacher fans - no movie, but...

[tzikeh]

This was on http://www.aintitcoolnews.com, which has given very very reliable entertainment news for years now (even though the design of the site sucks bigtime):

I was at a comic convention in Dublin recently where Glenn Fabry was signing. I asked about the Preacher movie and he said that it wouldn't go ahead, that nobody wanted to do it. He then told me that days previous he had gotten a call from somebody from HBO looking for Garth Ennis' phone number. A few hours later he got a call from Garth saying that the producers from The Sopranos want to turn Preacher into a HBO TV series.

That... could be *really* interesting.

Comments

[movies-michelle.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, that would be just about perfect. I wondered how they were going to do this and not make it into the most controversial movie EVER, since the view of religion--or certain types--and God are not exactly palatable to many in the US. Ahem.

But a series could be very cool and would let a lot of the background stuff unfold so you don't lose everything. Also, that would mean more of a chance of it ending the way it should. I love HBO!

[halcyon-shift.livejournal.com]

eeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Glee of me, thanks for the heads up :)

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

*Much* better than a movie. *So* much better than a movie.

[saturnalia.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. That would be so cool.

[settiai]

That would be so great. =)

[einatlanta.livejournal.com]

I've heard this HBO/Preacher rumor before, and I'd love to see it actually *happen*.

A few years ago I heard HBO had also optioned Transmetropolitan, to be produced as a cartoon, but it got stuck in development hell and never emerged.