Constantine’s Lucy Griffiths joins Preacher cast… and is Dominic Cooper really close to signing for the lead role?

With Preacher coming to our screens later this year, we’re waiting in great anticipation for any and all announcements in the hope that the title character will be announced by producer Seth Rogan and/or AMC themselves…

And we must be getting close (more on that in a minute).

We do, however, know that Constantine’s Lucy Griffiths has been cast as a character called  Emily Woodrow, an apparently original character in the series. Woodrow is “a no-nonsense single mother of three. Emily’s a waitress, the church organist, bookkeeper and Jesse’s loyal right hand. Stoic and strong, wise beyond her years, she can’t help but have a little thing for Preacher Jesse.”

She rounds out the cast that so far is Joseph Gilgun as Cassidy, Ruth Negga as Tulip and Ian Colletti as Arseface.

As for the lead character of Preacher, we’ve heard for a while that Howard Stark himself, Dominic Cooper in the running. Well, here’s the latest…

According to The Wrap it’s almost a done deal for Cooper to take on the role of  Jesse Custer. we reckon there’s no smoke without fire and are confident he’s going to be the man for the job…

Preacher tells the story of Custer, a small town Texas preacher who, nearly at his faith’s end, finds himself merged with a supernatural entity, Genesis, birthed from both an angel and a demon. Imbued with the word of God (the ability to make anyone obey his commands), Jesse hits the road, reunited with his ex-girlfriend, Tulip, and joined by a rowdy Irish vampire, Cassidy, to track down God himself and force him to explain why he abandoned his duties in Heaven.

Sources: SuperheroHype and ComingSoon