We are currently, arguably in the golden age of comic book movies and we may well (hopefully) be set for the golden age of comic book TV…
Appearing at the SXSW film festival in Austin, writer/filmmaker Evan Goldberg spoke about his involvement in AMC’s Preacher series. Speaking to Collider, he certainly knows what the fans will be looking for: “We just had a meeting with AMC and Garth Ennis, who’s the writer, and we all kind of seemed to agree that we’re gonna stay as true to the comic as we can… We’re not gonna change much, I hope. We’re just gonna do a little more of the preamble instead of doing flashbacks and restructure how we dole out the information a little, but we’re gonna [do the] same characters, same story, same ending.”
And, just in case you were worried about the caliber of the team working on the series: “We’re making it with Sam Catlin who did Breaking Bad, and so he might tell me I’m wrong about all of this and that the real way to do it is different because he’s much smarter and better at all this than I am. But we’re gonna try to stick to what it is as best we can.”
Regarding previous failed attempts to bring the character to the big screen, he said: “It should be an AMC show, that’s the proper way for it to get done… It’s too big; you can’t do that in a movie. It’s just too big. You’ve gotta learn the characters, it’s all about a love triangle and you need to grow with them and see the woman swayed one way or the other, and in a movie you just can’t accomplish all that.”
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