Preacher...

[fajrdrako]

I just read on Warren Ellis' blog that they're making a TV series based on Garth Ennis' comic Preacher.

How? Seems to me it's perfect for the comic book form... I can't picture it as a TV show. A failure of my imagination, no doubt. I know HBO does some outre stuff, but still.... Especially if Mark Steven Johnson is writing it - based on what I've seen from him in the past, I suspect he couldn't even understand what Preacher is about, though I may be misjudging. Is is fairly visceral. He probably gets that.

I guess television really isn't what it used to be. I see from the Wikipedia article that they'd once thought of making Preacher into a movie with James Marsden playing Custer. That would have been cool.

Comments

[dewline.livejournal.com]

I dunno. Not my cuppa, but I suspect the right talent could make it a good adaptation.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure that Mark Steven Johnson is the talent who could do it. I was thinking that the Rodriguez/Frank Miller team who did "Sin City" might make a good job of it. Not that the style of "Sin City" would be appropriate, but the ambience would be.