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"PREACHER" para AMC
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- Nuevas imágenes bts del rodaje de "Preacher" en New Mexico con 'Cassidy' y 'Aserface':
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Re: Piloto de "PREACHER" para AMC
- ¡AMC ordena oficialmente "Preacher" como serie, fecha y primer póster promocional!:
AMC sigue adelante con otra adaptación de cómics.
La cadena de cable ha ordenado como serie la adaptación del controvertido cómic "Preacher". El productor ejecutivo Seth Rogen dio la noticia en twitter, anunciando además que la serie debutará en Mayo del 2016 y compartió el primer póster promocional:
https://twitter.com/Sethrogen/status/64 ... =twsrc^tfw
Según algunas fuentes, la S1 de la serie tendría un total de 10 episodios (9 + el piloto), aunque AMC no ha confirmado el número.
Basada en los cómics de Garth Ennis y Steve Dillon de los 1990's de Vertigo de DC Comics imprint, Preachergira en torno al Reverendo. Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper), un predicador de Texas de armas tomar quien, tras haber perdido su fe, descubre que Dios ha dejado el cielo y abandonado sus obligaciones. Jesse se convierte en el único que es capaz de localizar a Dios becomes y hacerle responsable por su abdicación. Tulip O'Hare (Ruth Negga), la ex-novia vampira y devoradora de cerveza de Jesse, le acompaña en su búsqueda de respuestas. Pero la historia no termina aquí: El Santo de los Asesinos, una máquina de matar inmortal y del tipo pistolero solitario del Oeste, les pisa los talones con las miras puestas en Jesse. El elenco incluye a Lucy Griffiths (True Blood) como 'Emily Woodrow', una organista de iglesia y leal mano derecha de Jesse; Joseph Gilgun (This Is England) como 'el vampiro irlandés Cassidy'; e Ian Colletti como 'Eugene Root' (aka Arseface).
El dúo de "This Is the End" Rogen y Evan Goldberg y Sam Catlin (Breaking Bad) están adaptanco el cómic para AMC via Sony Pictures Television. Catlin servirá como productora ejecutiva y showrunner en Sony Pictures Television. Neal Moritz, Vivian Cannon, Ori Marmur, Ken Levin y Jason Netter de "Original Films" son también productores ejecutivos. James Weaver supervisará el proyecto, que ha sido escrito por Catlin. Rogen y Goldberg, ambos grandes fans del cómic, dirigirá.
“Preacher de Garth Ennis es, sobre todo, sobre grandes personajes – algo que buscamos en todas nuestras series,” dice Joel Stillerman, presidente de programación original y desarrollo de AMC y SundanceTV en un comunicado. “El hecho de que es también oscuramente divertida, tiene algunos elementos supernaturales geniales, y nos lleva en una increíble aventura es tan sólo la guinda del pastel. El increíble equipo creativo tras esta serie – liderado por Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Sam Catlin y Neal Moritz – hizo un piloto que completamente nos maravilló, y sabemos que la serie satisfacerá y sorprenderá a los fans de los cómics, y cautivará a los fans de la gran TV de todas partes.”
“Empezamos leyendo el cómic cuando salió por primera vez en los ‘90s,” dicen Rogen y Goldberg. “En muchas maneras el sentido del drama y la comedia de Garth y la estética visual de Steve Dillon nos ayudó a formar nuestro estilo, y la idea de que estamos realmente trayendo a Preacher a la vida es un sueño hecho realidad. Esta es la cosa más loca que hemos hecho jamás y no podemos esperar a seguir adelante y rompernos el trasero para hacerlo lo mejor que se pueda."
Sam Catlin añade: “No podíamos estar más contentos con la decisión de Sony/AMC de llevar la increíble Preacher de Garth a la televisión. No podemos esperar para pasar tiempo con vampiros, psicópatas, pelirrojos y Dios.”
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-f ... amc-812430
La cadena de cable ha ordenado como serie la adaptación del controvertido cómic "Preacher". El productor ejecutivo Seth Rogen dio la noticia en twitter, anunciando además que la serie debutará en Mayo del 2016 y compartió el primer póster promocional:
Según algunas fuentes, la S1 de la serie tendría un total de 10 episodios (9 + el piloto), aunque AMC no ha confirmado el número.
Basada en los cómics de Garth Ennis y Steve Dillon de los 1990's de Vertigo de DC Comics imprint, Preachergira en torno al Reverendo. Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper), un predicador de Texas de armas tomar quien, tras haber perdido su fe, descubre que Dios ha dejado el cielo y abandonado sus obligaciones. Jesse se convierte en el único que es capaz de localizar a Dios becomes y hacerle responsable por su abdicación. Tulip O'Hare (Ruth Negga), la ex-novia vampira y devoradora de cerveza de Jesse, le acompaña en su búsqueda de respuestas. Pero la historia no termina aquí: El Santo de los Asesinos, una máquina de matar inmortal y del tipo pistolero solitario del Oeste, les pisa los talones con las miras puestas en Jesse. El elenco incluye a Lucy Griffiths (True Blood) como 'Emily Woodrow', una organista de iglesia y leal mano derecha de Jesse; Joseph Gilgun (This Is England) como 'el vampiro irlandés Cassidy'; e Ian Colletti como 'Eugene Root' (aka Arseface).
El dúo de "This Is the End" Rogen y Evan Goldberg y Sam Catlin (Breaking Bad) están adaptanco el cómic para AMC via Sony Pictures Television. Catlin servirá como productora ejecutiva y showrunner en Sony Pictures Television. Neal Moritz, Vivian Cannon, Ori Marmur, Ken Levin y Jason Netter de "Original Films" son también productores ejecutivos. James Weaver supervisará el proyecto, que ha sido escrito por Catlin. Rogen y Goldberg, ambos grandes fans del cómic, dirigirá.
“Preacher de Garth Ennis es, sobre todo, sobre grandes personajes – algo que buscamos en todas nuestras series,” dice Joel Stillerman, presidente de programación original y desarrollo de AMC y SundanceTV en un comunicado. “El hecho de que es también oscuramente divertida, tiene algunos elementos supernaturales geniales, y nos lleva en una increíble aventura es tan sólo la guinda del pastel. El increíble equipo creativo tras esta serie – liderado por Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Sam Catlin y Neal Moritz – hizo un piloto que completamente nos maravilló, y sabemos que la serie satisfacerá y sorprenderá a los fans de los cómics, y cautivará a los fans de la gran TV de todas partes.”
“Empezamos leyendo el cómic cuando salió por primera vez en los ‘90s,” dicen Rogen y Goldberg. “En muchas maneras el sentido del drama y la comedia de Garth y la estética visual de Steve Dillon nos ayudó a formar nuestro estilo, y la idea de que estamos realmente trayendo a Preacher a la vida es un sueño hecho realidad. Esta es la cosa más loca que hemos hecho jamás y no podemos esperar a seguir adelante y rompernos el trasero para hacerlo lo mejor que se pueda."
Sam Catlin añade: “No podíamos estar más contentos con la decisión de Sony/AMC de llevar la increíble Preacher de Garth a la televisión. No podemos esperar para pasar tiempo con vampiros, psicópatas, pelirrojos y Dios.”
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-f ... amc-812430
¡¡¡¡AY, OMÁ QUÉ CALORES!!!! ¡Gracias por tu regalo, Nitta!
Re: Piloto de "PREACHER" para AMC
- Seth Rogen habla sobre el adaptar el controvertido cómic "Preacher" para la TV:
En una entrevista con CraveOnline, Seth Rogen talked habló sobre el proceso de adaptar la controvertida y muy gráfica serie de cómics para la TV, diciendo que quiere conseguir que los fans de los cómics sigan preguntándose sobre algunos elementos.
Rogen aseura que la serie está yendo genial, que están intentando planear toda la temporada antes de empezara rodar y a escribir y que esperan que empiecen a rodar en Febrero, siendo emitida probablemente el próximo verano.
“Estamos cambiando cosas específicas de cómo se desarrolla la narrativa. No estamos cambiando muchas piezas fundamentales, estamos manteniendo muchos personajes, pero queremos hacer una serie que si eres fan de los cómics, no sepas lo que esperar. Y sinceramente no tenemos interés en tan sólo hacer una adaptación literal páginas a página. ¡Eso parece la tarea creativa más aburrida que alguien podría hacer!”
Rogen continuó diciendo que intentan mencionar las varias mini-series que son spin-off del título principal de "Preacher", la mayoría de las cuales se centran en historias pasadas de personajes espcíficos.
“Quiero decir que hay algunas cosas con las que Garth incluso discutirá, y admite rápidamente que probablemente no deberíamos ni siquiera el intentar el poner eso en televisión. Hay algunos perosonajes, estamos hablando en quizá combinar esos dos en una persona. Pero para nosotros el elemento tangencial es una de nuestras cosas favoritas. El hecho de que se meta en esos otros mundos y explore esos otros personajes, es decir que eso es algo que hemos intentado de corazón permitirnos porque es una de las mejores partes del cómic. Tan sólo el inmenso tapete de gente rara [Risas.]”
Finalmente, Rogen comentó el tema tabú del espíritu del icono John Wayne, quien hace muchas apariciones en la fuente del material.
“¡No lo sé! [Risas.],” dice Rogen cuando se le preguntó a quién conseguirías como actor. “Esa es una buena pregunta. A Alguien envuelto en sombras.”
http://www.craveonline.com/culture/9092 ... s-preacher
Rogen aseura que la serie está yendo genial, que están intentando planear toda la temporada antes de empezara rodar y a escribir y que esperan que empiecen a rodar en Febrero, siendo emitida probablemente el próximo verano.
“Estamos cambiando cosas específicas de cómo se desarrolla la narrativa. No estamos cambiando muchas piezas fundamentales, estamos manteniendo muchos personajes, pero queremos hacer una serie que si eres fan de los cómics, no sepas lo que esperar. Y sinceramente no tenemos interés en tan sólo hacer una adaptación literal páginas a página. ¡Eso parece la tarea creativa más aburrida que alguien podría hacer!”
Rogen continuó diciendo que intentan mencionar las varias mini-series que son spin-off del título principal de "Preacher", la mayoría de las cuales se centran en historias pasadas de personajes espcíficos.
“Quiero decir que hay algunas cosas con las que Garth incluso discutirá, y admite rápidamente que probablemente no deberíamos ni siquiera el intentar el poner eso en televisión. Hay algunos perosonajes, estamos hablando en quizá combinar esos dos en una persona. Pero para nosotros el elemento tangencial es una de nuestras cosas favoritas. El hecho de que se meta en esos otros mundos y explore esos otros personajes, es decir que eso es algo que hemos intentado de corazón permitirnos porque es una de las mejores partes del cómic. Tan sólo el inmenso tapete de gente rara [Risas.]”
Finalmente, Rogen comentó el tema tabú del espíritu del icono John Wayne, quien hace muchas apariciones en la fuente del material.
“¡No lo sé! [Risas.],” dice Rogen cuando se le preguntó a quién conseguirías como actor. “Esa es una buena pregunta. A Alguien envuelto en sombras.”
http://www.craveonline.com/culture/9092 ... s-preacher
¡¡¡¡AY, OMÁ QUÉ CALORES!!!! ¡Gracias por tu regalo, Nitta!
Re: Piloto de "PREACHER" para AMC
- PREACHER 1st Teaser Promo (2016) Dominic Cooper, Vertigo Comics, AMC HD:
¡¡¡¡AY, OMÁ QUÉ CALORES!!!! ¡Gracias por tu regalo, Nitta!
Re: Piloto de "PREACHER" para AMC
- Primeras stills del 1.01 "Pilot":
¡¡¡¡AY, OMÁ QUÉ CALORES!!!! ¡Gracias por tu regalo, Nitta!
Re: Piloto de "PREACHER" para AMC
- En adelanto a su estreno en TV, "Preacher" estrenará su premiere en el SXSW:
En adelanto a su premiere en AMC a mediados del 2016, "Preacher" recibirá el tratamiento de estreno mundial en el South by Southwest festival (SXSW), según ha anunciado Variety.
La adaptación de la serie clásica de culto de Vertigo será parte de la programación de festival, que tiene lugar entre los días de 11-19 de Marzo en Austin, Texas. La fecha, hora y lugar de la premiere aún no se ha anunciado, aunque la página de la serie en la website del SXSW website indica que la información se revelará durante este mes.
El anuncio incluye la sinopsis del episodio, incluyendo la información del elenco y del equipo:
http://variety.com/2016/film/news/sxsw- ... 201674013/
La adaptación de la serie clásica de culto de Vertigo será parte de la programación de festival, que tiene lugar entre los días de 11-19 de Marzo en Austin, Texas. La fecha, hora y lugar de la premiere aún no se ha anunciado, aunque la página de la serie en la website del SXSW website indica que la información se revelará durante este mes.
El anuncio incluye la sinopsis del episodio, incluyendo la información del elenco y del equipo:
“Preacher” (Premiere Mundial)
Directores: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Escritor: Sam Catlin
Preacher es un drama cómico supernatural, retorcido y oscuro que sigue al predicador de West Texas llamado Jesse Custer, quien – junto a su ex-novia Tulip y un vagabundo irlandés llamado Cassidy – es lanzado a un mundo loco, mucho mayor de lo que él es.
Elenco: Dominic Cooper (Custer), Ruth Negga (Tulip), Joseph Gilgun (Cassidy), Ian Colletti (Arseface), W. Earl Brown (Sheriff Hugo Root), Lucy Griffiths (Emily Woodrow)
http://variety.com/2016/film/news/sxsw- ... 201674013/
¡¡¡¡AY, OMÁ QUÉ CALORES!!!! ¡Gracias por tu regalo, Nitta!
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- "Preacher" será distinta a los cómics, pero recompensará a los fans de siempre:
"Preacher" de AMC no debutará en nuestras pantallas hasta dentro de algunos meses, pero la serie ha tenido su primer pase para la prensa durante la TCA (Television Critics Association) winter tour, seguida por un panel en el que los productores ejecutivos Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg y Sam Catlin aparecieron junto con los miembros del elenco Dominic Cooper (“Jesse Custer”), Joseph Gilgun (“Cassidy”) y Ruth Negga (“Tulip) para hablar de cómo han traído al querido cómic de Garth Ennis a la TV.
"Al principio, no parecía que debiésemos desviarnos de los cómics de esa manera y luego hablamos con Garth y él nos animó a todos a hacer pequeños cambios," dice Goldberg, señalando que su prioridad es "lo primero y más importante el hacer una buena serie". "Queremos que los fans que aman el cómic consigan todo lo que quieren y que, aún así, tengan giros y cambios."
"Queremos que los espectadores sigan sorprendiéndose y que no sepan lo que esperar cada semana," dice Rogen sobre las desviaciones de la fuente del material. "El cómic cerrado y terminado no extendería lo que esperamos que sea una exitosa serie. Eso era algo realmente importante para nosotros el hacer, de nuevo, una buena serie... es decir, somos fans del cómic. Adoramos el cómic y vamos a hacer una serie que nos guste. Y esperamos que eso se traslade a la gente que ama el cómic también. Pero, de nuevo, nuestro primer y primordial objetivo es el hacer una gran y entretenida serie de TV que si nunca has oído hablar del cómic, la adorarás.”
"Para la gente que conoce los cómics, hay muchos Easter eggs por toda ella," dice Catlin. "Esa es en realidad una de las partes más divertidas de escribir la serie. Somos muy conscientes de lo que la audiencia de Preacher está esperando y de la mitología que conocen. Esa es la parte divertida del tener ese diálogo subterráneo con los fans de los cómics que no confunda a la gente que llega a la serie por primera vez."
"No sé si podrías trasladarla directamente de los cómics. Todos los que están involucrados pensamos que no deberíamos hacer eso directamente, incluído Garth. Adoramos el cómic; hay montones de cosas del cómic que esperamos incluir pero también esperamos subvertir a los amantes del cómic a veces y con suerte hacer que amen todo lo que estamos haciendo al final … El tener ambas cosas sería un escenario ideal", dice Seth Rogen.
Aún así el conseguir exactamente el tono de los cómics, fue una parte particularmente delicada de la adaptación. “Hay mucha violencia y drama, pero siempre hay comedia en todo ello,” dice Rogen. “Ese es el verdadero reto y la oportunidad que Garth nos ha dado de que haya violencia, casi melodrama, pero entonces también estamos intentando hacer que la gente se ría. Tenemos personajes que hacen cosas realmente horribles en un episodio y entonces regresan y hacen cosas realmente tontas”. Gilgun añade: “Todo el mundo dice que quieren ver algo diferente. Si esto no lo es, entonces no sé qué es”.
Catlin se rió sobre los constantes debates que los productores tienen sobre qué puede resultar divertido-repugnante y lo que puede ser demasiado-repugnante, revelando que incluyó una conversación sobre qué parte del cuerpo siendo mordidad sería demasiado repugnante, “Tuvimos esa larga discusión talmúdica sobre si al chico al que apuñalan con la mazorca de maíz deberían morderle la oreja o la nariz. Una nariz es sólo repugnante. ¡No puedes hacer eso! … Pero de alguna manera con la oreja está bien”. “Queremos que la serie sea divertida para gente normal sin sin enfermizas sensibilidades”, añade Rogen.
Una de esas diferencias será 'Arseface' (Ian Colletti) y los eventos conectados al personaje. Catlin reveló que sabían que no querían que el personaje fuera como el de los cómics pero que necesitaban hacer el personaje "más agradable." "Queríamos que el personaje fuera más simpático y alguien al que apoyarías," dice. “El punto de comienzo era el encontrar a Ian Colletti porque teníamos que descubrir cómo se veía su cara, cuál era la estructura de su cuerpo, y teníamos que hacer que no se viera muy a lo dibujo animado o absurdo,” dice Goldberg. ”Y muy técnicamente, teníamos que asegurarnos que el actor pudiera exteriorizar sus sentimientos. Teníamos que asegurarnos de que pudieras ver si podía estar feliz o triste”. Rogen añade, “Ha habido algo online de un test de alguien que lo hizo verse exactamente como se veía en el cómic. Tan pronto como vi eso sabía que no debíamos que se viera exactamente como en el cómic y que debíamos hacerlo un poco más aceptable. Queríamos que el personaje fuera más empático. Hay un umbral en donde eso se hace difícil en pequeños momentos”.
En cuanto a 'Cassidy' seguirá rompiendo los clichés sobre los vampiros. “Lo que es maravilloso sobre Cassidy es que ha estado aquí desde hace tanto tiempo y sin embrago aún no ha logrado nada,” dice Gilgun. “Consistentemente toma terribles decisiones... Pone fin a todo este negocio sexy de los vampiros.”
Algo muy aclamado por la crítica durante el piloto es el personaje de 'Tulip', quien tiene una notable introducción en una secuencia mostrando sus habilidades. “Nunca he leído antes un personaje como éste. Fue estupenda. Es como una versión sin censurar de nosotros mismos. ¡Ciertamente de mí!”, dice Negga.
Cooper habló sobre lo que es el interpretar al personaje principal, 'Jesse Custer', “Estaba aterrorizado ante la posibilidad,” añadiendo que su excitación se avivó porque, “Estaba desesperado por interpretarle la primera vez que leí el guión. Es un individuo muy complejo y lleno de conflictos.”
Rogen admite que hubieron múltiples intentos de adaptar la serie para la tv y que no funcionaron por una razón, "Porque por muchos personajes que tiene y por gigante que es el mundo, eso es por lo que nunca funcionó como película. Gente mucho más talentosa que nosotros lo han intentado... no eran ellos, era el formato. Somos afortunados de que fuéramos los chicos que estaban alrededor cuando alguien decidió convertirlo en una serie de tv."
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-f ... mic-853562
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/08/preacher-amc
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/01/09/ ... cher-to-tv
http://www.slashfilm.com/amc-preacher-comics/
"Al principio, no parecía que debiésemos desviarnos de los cómics de esa manera y luego hablamos con Garth y él nos animó a todos a hacer pequeños cambios," dice Goldberg, señalando que su prioridad es "lo primero y más importante el hacer una buena serie". "Queremos que los fans que aman el cómic consigan todo lo que quieren y que, aún así, tengan giros y cambios."
"Queremos que los espectadores sigan sorprendiéndose y que no sepan lo que esperar cada semana," dice Rogen sobre las desviaciones de la fuente del material. "El cómic cerrado y terminado no extendería lo que esperamos que sea una exitosa serie. Eso era algo realmente importante para nosotros el hacer, de nuevo, una buena serie... es decir, somos fans del cómic. Adoramos el cómic y vamos a hacer una serie que nos guste. Y esperamos que eso se traslade a la gente que ama el cómic también. Pero, de nuevo, nuestro primer y primordial objetivo es el hacer una gran y entretenida serie de TV que si nunca has oído hablar del cómic, la adorarás.”
"Para la gente que conoce los cómics, hay muchos Easter eggs por toda ella," dice Catlin. "Esa es en realidad una de las partes más divertidas de escribir la serie. Somos muy conscientes de lo que la audiencia de Preacher está esperando y de la mitología que conocen. Esa es la parte divertida del tener ese diálogo subterráneo con los fans de los cómics que no confunda a la gente que llega a la serie por primera vez."
"No sé si podrías trasladarla directamente de los cómics. Todos los que están involucrados pensamos que no deberíamos hacer eso directamente, incluído Garth. Adoramos el cómic; hay montones de cosas del cómic que esperamos incluir pero también esperamos subvertir a los amantes del cómic a veces y con suerte hacer que amen todo lo que estamos haciendo al final … El tener ambas cosas sería un escenario ideal", dice Seth Rogen.
Aún así el conseguir exactamente el tono de los cómics, fue una parte particularmente delicada de la adaptación. “Hay mucha violencia y drama, pero siempre hay comedia en todo ello,” dice Rogen. “Ese es el verdadero reto y la oportunidad que Garth nos ha dado de que haya violencia, casi melodrama, pero entonces también estamos intentando hacer que la gente se ría. Tenemos personajes que hacen cosas realmente horribles en un episodio y entonces regresan y hacen cosas realmente tontas”. Gilgun añade: “Todo el mundo dice que quieren ver algo diferente. Si esto no lo es, entonces no sé qué es”.
Catlin se rió sobre los constantes debates que los productores tienen sobre qué puede resultar divertido-repugnante y lo que puede ser demasiado-repugnante, revelando que incluyó una conversación sobre qué parte del cuerpo siendo mordidad sería demasiado repugnante, “Tuvimos esa larga discusión talmúdica sobre si al chico al que apuñalan con la mazorca de maíz deberían morderle la oreja o la nariz. Una nariz es sólo repugnante. ¡No puedes hacer eso! … Pero de alguna manera con la oreja está bien”. “Queremos que la serie sea divertida para gente normal sin sin enfermizas sensibilidades”, añade Rogen.
Una de esas diferencias será 'Arseface' (Ian Colletti) y los eventos conectados al personaje. Catlin reveló que sabían que no querían que el personaje fuera como el de los cómics pero que necesitaban hacer el personaje "más agradable." "Queríamos que el personaje fuera más simpático y alguien al que apoyarías," dice. “El punto de comienzo era el encontrar a Ian Colletti porque teníamos que descubrir cómo se veía su cara, cuál era la estructura de su cuerpo, y teníamos que hacer que no se viera muy a lo dibujo animado o absurdo,” dice Goldberg. ”Y muy técnicamente, teníamos que asegurarnos que el actor pudiera exteriorizar sus sentimientos. Teníamos que asegurarnos de que pudieras ver si podía estar feliz o triste”. Rogen añade, “Ha habido algo online de un test de alguien que lo hizo verse exactamente como se veía en el cómic. Tan pronto como vi eso sabía que no debíamos que se viera exactamente como en el cómic y que debíamos hacerlo un poco más aceptable. Queríamos que el personaje fuera más empático. Hay un umbral en donde eso se hace difícil en pequeños momentos”.
En cuanto a 'Cassidy' seguirá rompiendo los clichés sobre los vampiros. “Lo que es maravilloso sobre Cassidy es que ha estado aquí desde hace tanto tiempo y sin embrago aún no ha logrado nada,” dice Gilgun. “Consistentemente toma terribles decisiones... Pone fin a todo este negocio sexy de los vampiros.”
Algo muy aclamado por la crítica durante el piloto es el personaje de 'Tulip', quien tiene una notable introducción en una secuencia mostrando sus habilidades. “Nunca he leído antes un personaje como éste. Fue estupenda. Es como una versión sin censurar de nosotros mismos. ¡Ciertamente de mí!”, dice Negga.
Cooper habló sobre lo que es el interpretar al personaje principal, 'Jesse Custer', “Estaba aterrorizado ante la posibilidad,” añadiendo que su excitación se avivó porque, “Estaba desesperado por interpretarle la primera vez que leí el guión. Es un individuo muy complejo y lleno de conflictos.”
Rogen admite que hubieron múltiples intentos de adaptar la serie para la tv y que no funcionaron por una razón, "Porque por muchos personajes que tiene y por gigante que es el mundo, eso es por lo que nunca funcionó como película. Gente mucho más talentosa que nosotros lo han intentado... no eran ellos, era el formato. Somos afortunados de que fuéramos los chicos que estaban alrededor cuando alguien decidió convertirlo en una serie de tv."
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-f ... mic-853562
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/08/preacher-amc
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/01/09/ ... cher-to-tv
http://www.slashfilm.com/amc-preacher-comics/
¡¡¡¡AY, OMÁ QUÉ CALORES!!!! ¡Gracias por tu regalo, Nitta!
Re: Piloto de "PREACHER" para AMC
- "Preacher" enlista al actor Jackie Earle Haley como un villano clave de los cómics:
La adaptación de "Preacher" de la AMC se ha hecho con el nominado al Óscar Jackie Earle Haley para que interprete e un icónico personaje de la novela gráfica, según informa THR.
Haley ha sido escogido para interpretar al icónico personaje de 'Odin Quincannon' en un arco de 6 episodios en el próximo drama de la cadena.
El personaje de Haley es decrito como un pequeño y decrépìto hombre con la voluntad de hierro sin escrúpulos necesaria para ser el hombre más poderoso de Annville County, Texas. Principal patrón de la ciudad, Odin dirige Quincannon Meat & Power, un negocio familiar de matadero de 125 años de antigüedad.
En los cómics, Odin es miembro de la KKK local y choca muchas veces con Jesse, descubriendo éste último que Odin mantiene sexo con un maniquí hecho con productos cárnicos.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-f ... lay-863139
Haley ha sido escogido para interpretar al icónico personaje de 'Odin Quincannon' en un arco de 6 episodios en el próximo drama de la cadena.
El personaje de Haley es decrito como un pequeño y decrépìto hombre con la voluntad de hierro sin escrúpulos necesaria para ser el hombre más poderoso de Annville County, Texas. Principal patrón de la ciudad, Odin dirige Quincannon Meat & Power, un negocio familiar de matadero de 125 años de antigüedad.
En los cómics, Odin es miembro de la KKK local y choca muchas veces con Jesse, descubriendo éste último que Odin mantiene sexo con un maniquí hecho con productos cárnicos.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-f ... lay-863139
¡¡¡¡AY, OMÁ QUÉ CALORES!!!! ¡Gracias por tu regalo, Nitta!
Re: Piloto de "PREACHER" para AMC
- Nuevas imágenes promocionales de los personajes:
https://twitter.com/Sethrogen/status/707613735519522816
https://twitter.com/Sethrogen/status/707613735519522816
¡¡¡¡AY, OMÁ QUÉ CALORES!!!! ¡Gracias por tu regalo, Nitta!
Re: Piloto de "PREACHER" para AMC
- ¡¡¡Anunciada fecha de la premiere de "Preacher" y nuevo póster oficial!!!:
AMC ha anunciado hoy en el SXSW Festival que la muy anticipada serie “Preacher” se estrenará el Domingo, 22 de Mayo a las 10:00 p.m. ET/PT tras la mid-season finale de “Fear the Walking Dead.”
Una repetición del piloto se repetirá el siguiente Domingo 29 de Mayo con las siguientes emisiones a las 9:00 p.m. ET/PT proporcionándole a los espectadores múltiples oportunidades para ponerse al día durante el fin de semana de vacaciones.
Los nuevos episodios continuarán el Domingo, 5 de Junio en el horario regular de la serie de las 9:00 p.m. ET/PT
“Preacher,” que está basada en el cómics de Garth Ennis y Steve Dillon de los ‘90’s del mismo nombre, es una co-producción de Sony Pictures Television y AMC. La temporada de 10 episodios fue desarrollada para la televisión por los productores ejecutivos Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg (This Is the End, Superbad, Neighbors) y el productor ejecutivo y Sam Catlin (“Breaking Bad”).
“Estamos emocionados por finalmente compartir esta épica historia con personajes como ningún otro de la televisión,” dice Joel Stillerman, presidentede programación original y desarrollo de AMC y SundanceTV. “Sam Catlin, Seth Rogen y Evan Goldberg han llevado a la vida la historia de Garth y el arte de Steve de la forma más gratificantemente posible. Los fans de los cómics y de la buena televisión tienen mucho que esperar ya que viajarán en un viaje inolvidable y verán al unísono cómo se desarrolla la locura.”
Además, han publicado un nuevo póster oficial de Dominic Cooper como 'Jesse Custer':
http://www.spoilertv.com/2015/11/preach ... promo.html?
http://www.superherohype.com/news/36782 ... c#/slide/1
Una repetición del piloto se repetirá el siguiente Domingo 29 de Mayo con las siguientes emisiones a las 9:00 p.m. ET/PT proporcionándole a los espectadores múltiples oportunidades para ponerse al día durante el fin de semana de vacaciones.
Los nuevos episodios continuarán el Domingo, 5 de Junio en el horario regular de la serie de las 9:00 p.m. ET/PT
“Preacher,” que está basada en el cómics de Garth Ennis y Steve Dillon de los ‘90’s del mismo nombre, es una co-producción de Sony Pictures Television y AMC. La temporada de 10 episodios fue desarrollada para la televisión por los productores ejecutivos Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg (This Is the End, Superbad, Neighbors) y el productor ejecutivo y Sam Catlin (“Breaking Bad”).
“Estamos emocionados por finalmente compartir esta épica historia con personajes como ningún otro de la televisión,” dice Joel Stillerman, presidentede programación original y desarrollo de AMC y SundanceTV. “Sam Catlin, Seth Rogen y Evan Goldberg han llevado a la vida la historia de Garth y el arte de Steve de la forma más gratificantemente posible. Los fans de los cómics y de la buena televisión tienen mucho que esperar ya que viajarán en un viaje inolvidable y verán al unísono cómo se desarrolla la locura.”
Además, han publicado un nuevo póster oficial de Dominic Cooper como 'Jesse Custer':
http://www.spoilertv.com/2015/11/preach ... promo.html?
http://www.superherohype.com/news/36782 ... c#/slide/1
¡¡¡¡AY, OMÁ QUÉ CALORES!!!! ¡Gracias por tu regalo, Nitta!
Re: Piloto de "PREACHER" para AMC
- Imágenes bts desde el SXSW (14-03-16):
(@entertainmentweekly: Jesse, Tulip & Cassidy. #Preacher
@entertaintmentweekly: Stopped by the @PreacherAMC activation at #SXSW... It was a beautiful day to turn the world upside down. #Preacher
@entertaintmentweekly: Hey guys - it's @dominiccoop and I'm taking over @entertainmentweekly's Instagram today! I'll give you a bts look at @PreacherAMC at #SXSW
@entertaintmentweekly: Thank you to all of our fans who came to the @PreacherAMC screening! We're unleashing it on the world on May 22. #Preacher
@PreacherAMC: #WelcometoAnnville, @Sethrogen, @evandgoldberg, Sam Catlin, @dominiccoop, Ruth Negga & Joseph Gilgun! #Preacher)
(@entertainmentweekly: Jesse, Tulip & Cassidy. #Preacher
@entertaintmentweekly: Stopped by the @PreacherAMC activation at #SXSW... It was a beautiful day to turn the world upside down. #Preacher
@entertaintmentweekly: Hey guys - it's @dominiccoop and I'm taking over @entertainmentweekly's Instagram today! I'll give you a bts look at @PreacherAMC at #SXSW
@entertaintmentweekly: Thank you to all of our fans who came to the @PreacherAMC screening! We're unleashing it on the world on May 22. #Preacher
@PreacherAMC: #WelcometoAnnville, @Sethrogen, @evandgoldberg, Sam Catlin, @dominiccoop, Ruth Negga & Joseph Gilgun! #Preacher)
¡¡¡¡AY, OMÁ QUÉ CALORES!!!! ¡Gracias por tu regalo, Nitta!
Re: Piloto de "PREACHER" para AMC
- Los creadores y el elenco hablan sobre la llegada de ‘Preacher’ a la TV:
- Cómo el showrunner de "Preacher" Sam Catlin lleva los métodos de "Breaking Bad" al drama sobrenatural (theverge):
AMC anunció ayer la fecha de estreno de la adaptación de cómics "Preacher" y parece que la serie será una buena compañía para “The Walking Dead” a juzgar por la apasionada reacción que el piloto recibió durante el SXSW Festival.
El proyecto de la propiedad ha sido una pasión para Rogen y Goldberg desde que eran niños y han estado luchando por adaptarla desde hace 10 años, “Leímos el cómics cuando salió por primera vez, y tan pronto como tuvimos algo de poder en Hollywood, intentamos hacerlo,” dice Rogen. “Siempre ha estado en manos de gente más exitosa y con más talento que nosotros, y de alguna manera todos la fastidiaron y fue rodando colina abajo hasta llegar a nuestro regazo de alguna manera, cosa de lo que estoy muy agradecido. Pienso que fue tan sólo un tema de persistencia; siempre dejamos claro que estábamos interesados en ello, fuimos vocales sobre lo grandes fans que éramos y estuvimos tan sólo en el lugar justo en el momento adecuado.”
“Hubo un grado de interés desde el principio,” recuerda Ennis sobre el viaje del cómic a la pantalla. “Pero ha sido un largo, largo camino para llegar así de lejos — fuimos desde las películas a la televisión a de nuevo a las películas a esto. Parece que esta era la vez adecuada para ello. Pienso que la televisión se ha puesto al día finalmente con los cómics.”
A pesar de estar basada en West Texas, los tres protagonistas de la serie son todos del Reino Unido. “No ha sido fácil,” dice Cooper sobre su acento en pantalla para el protagonista principal Jesse Custer. “Me siento fatal estando sentado aquí en Texas — ¡es un trabajo en progreso!”
Aunque Gilgun, quien interpreta al vampiro irlandés Cassidy, nació en Lancashire en Inglaterra del Norte, el actor dice que el papel se sentía que encajaba perfecto. “[Cassidy] no es tan diferente de quien soy, para serte sincero... soy un terrible adicto al alcohol y a las drogas así es que no tengo que ahondar mucho ni nada parecido,” se ríe. “Ha sido jodidamente estupendo. Es uno de los mejores trabajos que he tenido jamás... me pagan por ser un capullo todo el día. La gente sujeta un paraguas sobre mi cabeza para que no me queme mi vampiresco cuero cabelludo.”
Tulip O’Hare, puede que sea una rubia caucásica en los cómics, aunque la actriz etíope-irlandesa Ruth Negga parece muy capaz de personificar al carismático personaje. “Cuando leí el guión, pensé ‘por favor déjame interpretar a este personaje,’ ‘porque son normalmente los chicos los que consiguen hacer las cosas que ella hace — la gente piensa que las chicas no son capaces de realizar una violencia extrema,” se ríe. “Estamos a las puertas de rodar la temporada ahora y se pone insluso más emocionante. Se despliega más y más de una manera emocionante e inesperada... pienso que el remordimiento es algo que ella reprime. Tiene un extremo sentido de que hay que servir a la justicia, pero es su justicia.”
Y como toda adaptación, la serie tiene algunas diferencias con el cómic, aunque los productores aseguran a los fans que todo lo más icónico del cómic estará incluído. “Todo empieza en un lugar distinto... Hay retos que tenemos en cuanto a que el cómic empieza a 200 por hora y realmente no está asentado en un sitio, pero al ser una serie de tv tenemos que estar asentados en un sitio. En la primera temporada, queríamos localizar en ella este pequeño pueblo de West Texas,” explica el showrunner Catlin. “Pero su mundo, la comedia, la acción, los personajes deberían sentirse todo como ‘Preacher’ … para los fans de ‘Preacher', si no han visto algo, tan sólo dadnos tiempo, vamos a conseguir todos esas estupendas escenas y personajes.”
http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/preache ... 201730021/
El proyecto de la propiedad ha sido una pasión para Rogen y Goldberg desde que eran niños y han estado luchando por adaptarla desde hace 10 años, “Leímos el cómics cuando salió por primera vez, y tan pronto como tuvimos algo de poder en Hollywood, intentamos hacerlo,” dice Rogen. “Siempre ha estado en manos de gente más exitosa y con más talento que nosotros, y de alguna manera todos la fastidiaron y fue rodando colina abajo hasta llegar a nuestro regazo de alguna manera, cosa de lo que estoy muy agradecido. Pienso que fue tan sólo un tema de persistencia; siempre dejamos claro que estábamos interesados en ello, fuimos vocales sobre lo grandes fans que éramos y estuvimos tan sólo en el lugar justo en el momento adecuado.”
“Hubo un grado de interés desde el principio,” recuerda Ennis sobre el viaje del cómic a la pantalla. “Pero ha sido un largo, largo camino para llegar así de lejos — fuimos desde las películas a la televisión a de nuevo a las películas a esto. Parece que esta era la vez adecuada para ello. Pienso que la televisión se ha puesto al día finalmente con los cómics.”
A pesar de estar basada en West Texas, los tres protagonistas de la serie son todos del Reino Unido. “No ha sido fácil,” dice Cooper sobre su acento en pantalla para el protagonista principal Jesse Custer. “Me siento fatal estando sentado aquí en Texas — ¡es un trabajo en progreso!”
Aunque Gilgun, quien interpreta al vampiro irlandés Cassidy, nació en Lancashire en Inglaterra del Norte, el actor dice que el papel se sentía que encajaba perfecto. “[Cassidy] no es tan diferente de quien soy, para serte sincero... soy un terrible adicto al alcohol y a las drogas así es que no tengo que ahondar mucho ni nada parecido,” se ríe. “Ha sido jodidamente estupendo. Es uno de los mejores trabajos que he tenido jamás... me pagan por ser un capullo todo el día. La gente sujeta un paraguas sobre mi cabeza para que no me queme mi vampiresco cuero cabelludo.”
Tulip O’Hare, puede que sea una rubia caucásica en los cómics, aunque la actriz etíope-irlandesa Ruth Negga parece muy capaz de personificar al carismático personaje. “Cuando leí el guión, pensé ‘por favor déjame interpretar a este personaje,’ ‘porque son normalmente los chicos los que consiguen hacer las cosas que ella hace — la gente piensa que las chicas no son capaces de realizar una violencia extrema,” se ríe. “Estamos a las puertas de rodar la temporada ahora y se pone insluso más emocionante. Se despliega más y más de una manera emocionante e inesperada... pienso que el remordimiento es algo que ella reprime. Tiene un extremo sentido de que hay que servir a la justicia, pero es su justicia.”
Y como toda adaptación, la serie tiene algunas diferencias con el cómic, aunque los productores aseguran a los fans que todo lo más icónico del cómic estará incluído. “Todo empieza en un lugar distinto... Hay retos que tenemos en cuanto a que el cómic empieza a 200 por hora y realmente no está asentado en un sitio, pero al ser una serie de tv tenemos que estar asentados en un sitio. En la primera temporada, queríamos localizar en ella este pequeño pueblo de West Texas,” explica el showrunner Catlin. “Pero su mundo, la comedia, la acción, los personajes deberían sentirse todo como ‘Preacher’ … para los fans de ‘Preacher', si no han visto algo, tan sólo dadnos tiempo, vamos a conseguir todos esas estupendas escenas y personajes.”
http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/preache ... 201730021/
- Cómo el showrunner de "Preacher" Sam Catlin lleva los métodos de "Breaking Bad" al drama sobrenatural (theverge):
Cómo el showrunner de "Preacher" Sam Catlin lleva los métodos de "Breaking Bad" al drama sobrenatural
Por Bryan Bishop 15 Marzo, 2016 03:49
When the pilot for AMC’s upcoming series adaptation of Preacher screened at SXSW yesterday — to rapturous applause from the fan-heavy crowd — much of the focus was on directors and executive producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. But the secret weapon of the show is writer/showrunner Sam Catlin, a veteran of Breaking Bad with credits like the infamous bottle episode “Fly” to his name.
Tackling an adaptation of Garth Ennis’ comic — a violent horror-drama about a Texas preacher named Jesse Cutler (Dominic Cooper) who goes on a hunt for God with his ex-girlfriend Tulip and an obnoxious Irish vampire called Cassidy — may not sound like the most obvious follow-up to the story of Walter White. After all, the pilot episode of Preacher features a boy who’s missing half his face and has Tom Cruise explode off-screen after being possessed by a mysterious alien force. But there’s some shared DNA there, and not just in the way both shows mix dark comedy and drama: Preacher is shooting in New Mexico on the same stages that Breaking Bad once did, and Catlin’s brought along some of his previous collaborators, including editor Kelley Dixon and composer Dave Porter.
I sat down with Catlin after the premiere screening to talk about the show, how he and his writers adapted such a well-known comic, and the important lessons from Breaking Bad.
Bryan Bishop: Let’s start at the beginning. How’d you first get involved with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg on this project?
Sam Catlin: It’s a really uninteresting story: we just have the same agent. It’s literally that. They had the rights, and wanted to make it into a TV show — because it’s really the only thing you can do with it, it seems to me. Better people than us have tried to make it into a movie. And so we had the same agent. They didn’t know who I was, but they needed someone that could put it into a TV show. Which was great because I’d never heard of the comic. I’m an adult male, so I stopped reading comics when I was a child. But they’re huge fans.
And therefore not adult males.
Oh, yeah. They’re children. They’re very wealthy, stoned children. And huge fans of the comic. And it just turned out to be a great collaboration between the three of us, because there were certain things you can’t do for TV, or on a TV schedule. So it was a good combination of their [passion], and "How do we turn this crazy world into something that’s accessible."
Was there anything about the comic itself that grabbed you when you first read it?
I thought it was impossible. When I first read it, I thought "I don’t know how we’re going to do this." Because it’s so big. And I’d never adapted anything before, so I really didn’t know about that process, and how you change things. But it has interesting characters. They’re crazy and over the top, but they’re very identifiable people. [There are] all these great archetypes, but as you read the comics you really fall in love with them as people. And once we started having an idea of how we could do it, just as a story, then the world was our oyster because there’s so much great fun to have in so many different worlds, and so many different genres to play in.
Tell me about coming aboard this show after Breaking Bad. That show had been such a big part of the lives of everyone that worked on it. Was there a particular type of project or challenge you were looking for after that experience?
There wasn’t a certain type of show, but what’s been fun about this is that no one’s ever going to confuse it with Breaking Bad. It’s a very different world, it’s different rules. With Breaking Bad, it was innovative in all these different ways, but it was very much ... "that’s present-day Albuquerque, and that’s a human being, and there are no vampires." There’s very specific rules of human behavior and what’s possible. It’s very limited as to what’s possible. I use "limited" not as a negative, but as [a way of saying] These are the rules.
But with Garth’s world, so much is possible. Tom Cruise can die, and there are vampires and angels. So it was great being able to be on a bigger canvas to draw on.
One thing that it does seem to share is that it combines humor and drama in some really unexpected ways. It has such a unique tone. How’d you find that middle ground?
The tone is the hardest part. It’s the hardest part for the actors, it’s the hardest part for the writing, it’s the hardest part for costumes, directing; all of it. It’s the hardest because you don’t want it to become too silly, but you don’t want it to become too heavy. And you don’t want to be disgustingly violent, but you want it to have that same sort of fun.
We talked about Tarantino a lot, as somebody that’s able to balance humor and real stakes, but also violence. But it’s sorta hard when we’re trying to figure out these stories, because there’s nothing to really compare it to. Which is what’s so exciting about it, but it’s also: Oh god, is this going to work? We’ve never seen it before. That tone, and that balance… You’ve got characters talking about the meaning of life, and God, and all that stuff which could be really preachy and navel-gazing. But to go from that, to comedy, and action — it’s the real fun challenge of the show.
There are some moments in the pilot that seem pretty far out there. Were there any problems with pushback, or AMC saying you’d gone too far?
No one’s ever told us don’t go that far! We can’t say "fuck." We can, but they dip [the audio] out. But we’ve had very little [pushback]. We are all shocked that no one has stopped us about the Tom Cruise thing. Now, it’s too fucking funny, they’re pregnant with it.
You talked earlier about the challenges of adapting something. On Breaking Bad, you guys would often paint yourselves into a corner by setting things up that you had no idea how to pay off, which led to a lot of great story turns. In contrast to that, how did you build story from an existing universe?
I think one of the reasons why we localized it and made it, in terms of Jesse’s world, a little smaller initially, is that we wanted to put the audience in a familiar setting. It’s a small town, and there’s all these people: there’s the church school organist, and there’s the sheriff, and there’s the mayor. We wanted to create a grounded, familiar world, so that the craziness that comes into it [wouldn’t overpower everything]. We didn’t want to put a hat on a hat — which is a Vince Gilligan term — we didn’t want it to be so over the top so soon that people would think they were on a bad mushroom trip. So that’s part of the thing in keeping it grounded, and finding our moments where it’s over the top.
Vince Gilligan was known for running his writer’s room in a very specific way. How many writers do you have on Preacher, and how are you running your room?
It’s me and six other writers, and we operate it basically the way Vince ran Breaking Bad. Which is we try to break the stories pretty tightly in the room, so then a writer goes and writes their episode, but everyone’s on the same page. Everything has to be figured out as a group of writers, because you can’t have people going off and saying, "Oh it would cool to have him do this," because everything is interconnected in a serialized show. So that’s the structure, and then a writer of an episode goes to be on set, and they sort of produce their episode, and they’re the voice of the writers for that particular episode. So I’m trying to steal as much as possible from Breaking Bad.
It always seemed like a great system in that it encouraged people to not just become better writers in the room, but helped build talent with a more holistic view of the process.
Yeah, I think Chris Carter did that with his X-Files people. He really tried to create producers as well as writers, and it’s great just for communication, because we’re writing in Los Angeles, and you don’t want the crew and the cast to feel like they’re at sea. So it’s always great to have a writer there saying, "This is what we’re thinking, and this is where it’s going to go." I’m trying to emulate that as much as possible.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/15/11231 ... g-bad-sxsw
Por Bryan Bishop 15 Marzo, 2016 03:49
When the pilot for AMC’s upcoming series adaptation of Preacher screened at SXSW yesterday — to rapturous applause from the fan-heavy crowd — much of the focus was on directors and executive producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. But the secret weapon of the show is writer/showrunner Sam Catlin, a veteran of Breaking Bad with credits like the infamous bottle episode “Fly” to his name.
Tackling an adaptation of Garth Ennis’ comic — a violent horror-drama about a Texas preacher named Jesse Cutler (Dominic Cooper) who goes on a hunt for God with his ex-girlfriend Tulip and an obnoxious Irish vampire called Cassidy — may not sound like the most obvious follow-up to the story of Walter White. After all, the pilot episode of Preacher features a boy who’s missing half his face and has Tom Cruise explode off-screen after being possessed by a mysterious alien force. But there’s some shared DNA there, and not just in the way both shows mix dark comedy and drama: Preacher is shooting in New Mexico on the same stages that Breaking Bad once did, and Catlin’s brought along some of his previous collaborators, including editor Kelley Dixon and composer Dave Porter.
I sat down with Catlin after the premiere screening to talk about the show, how he and his writers adapted such a well-known comic, and the important lessons from Breaking Bad.
Bryan Bishop: Let’s start at the beginning. How’d you first get involved with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg on this project?
Sam Catlin: It’s a really uninteresting story: we just have the same agent. It’s literally that. They had the rights, and wanted to make it into a TV show — because it’s really the only thing you can do with it, it seems to me. Better people than us have tried to make it into a movie. And so we had the same agent. They didn’t know who I was, but they needed someone that could put it into a TV show. Which was great because I’d never heard of the comic. I’m an adult male, so I stopped reading comics when I was a child. But they’re huge fans.
And therefore not adult males.
Oh, yeah. They’re children. They’re very wealthy, stoned children. And huge fans of the comic. And it just turned out to be a great collaboration between the three of us, because there were certain things you can’t do for TV, or on a TV schedule. So it was a good combination of their [passion], and "How do we turn this crazy world into something that’s accessible."
Was there anything about the comic itself that grabbed you when you first read it?
I thought it was impossible. When I first read it, I thought "I don’t know how we’re going to do this." Because it’s so big. And I’d never adapted anything before, so I really didn’t know about that process, and how you change things. But it has interesting characters. They’re crazy and over the top, but they’re very identifiable people. [There are] all these great archetypes, but as you read the comics you really fall in love with them as people. And once we started having an idea of how we could do it, just as a story, then the world was our oyster because there’s so much great fun to have in so many different worlds, and so many different genres to play in.
Tell me about coming aboard this show after Breaking Bad. That show had been such a big part of the lives of everyone that worked on it. Was there a particular type of project or challenge you were looking for after that experience?
There wasn’t a certain type of show, but what’s been fun about this is that no one’s ever going to confuse it with Breaking Bad. It’s a very different world, it’s different rules. With Breaking Bad, it was innovative in all these different ways, but it was very much ... "that’s present-day Albuquerque, and that’s a human being, and there are no vampires." There’s very specific rules of human behavior and what’s possible. It’s very limited as to what’s possible. I use "limited" not as a negative, but as [a way of saying] These are the rules.
But with Garth’s world, so much is possible. Tom Cruise can die, and there are vampires and angels. So it was great being able to be on a bigger canvas to draw on.
One thing that it does seem to share is that it combines humor and drama in some really unexpected ways. It has such a unique tone. How’d you find that middle ground?
The tone is the hardest part. It’s the hardest part for the actors, it’s the hardest part for the writing, it’s the hardest part for costumes, directing; all of it. It’s the hardest because you don’t want it to become too silly, but you don’t want it to become too heavy. And you don’t want to be disgustingly violent, but you want it to have that same sort of fun.
We talked about Tarantino a lot, as somebody that’s able to balance humor and real stakes, but also violence. But it’s sorta hard when we’re trying to figure out these stories, because there’s nothing to really compare it to. Which is what’s so exciting about it, but it’s also: Oh god, is this going to work? We’ve never seen it before. That tone, and that balance… You’ve got characters talking about the meaning of life, and God, and all that stuff which could be really preachy and navel-gazing. But to go from that, to comedy, and action — it’s the real fun challenge of the show.
There are some moments in the pilot that seem pretty far out there. Were there any problems with pushback, or AMC saying you’d gone too far?
No one’s ever told us don’t go that far! We can’t say "fuck." We can, but they dip [the audio] out. But we’ve had very little [pushback]. We are all shocked that no one has stopped us about the Tom Cruise thing. Now, it’s too fucking funny, they’re pregnant with it.
You talked earlier about the challenges of adapting something. On Breaking Bad, you guys would often paint yourselves into a corner by setting things up that you had no idea how to pay off, which led to a lot of great story turns. In contrast to that, how did you build story from an existing universe?
I think one of the reasons why we localized it and made it, in terms of Jesse’s world, a little smaller initially, is that we wanted to put the audience in a familiar setting. It’s a small town, and there’s all these people: there’s the church school organist, and there’s the sheriff, and there’s the mayor. We wanted to create a grounded, familiar world, so that the craziness that comes into it [wouldn’t overpower everything]. We didn’t want to put a hat on a hat — which is a Vince Gilligan term — we didn’t want it to be so over the top so soon that people would think they were on a bad mushroom trip. So that’s part of the thing in keeping it grounded, and finding our moments where it’s over the top.
Vince Gilligan was known for running his writer’s room in a very specific way. How many writers do you have on Preacher, and how are you running your room?
It’s me and six other writers, and we operate it basically the way Vince ran Breaking Bad. Which is we try to break the stories pretty tightly in the room, so then a writer goes and writes their episode, but everyone’s on the same page. Everything has to be figured out as a group of writers, because you can’t have people going off and saying, "Oh it would cool to have him do this," because everything is interconnected in a serialized show. So that’s the structure, and then a writer of an episode goes to be on set, and they sort of produce their episode, and they’re the voice of the writers for that particular episode. So I’m trying to steal as much as possible from Breaking Bad.
It always seemed like a great system in that it encouraged people to not just become better writers in the room, but helped build talent with a more holistic view of the process.
Yeah, I think Chris Carter did that with his X-Files people. He really tried to create producers as well as writers, and it’s great just for communication, because we’re writing in Los Angeles, and you don’t want the crew and the cast to feel like they’re at sea. So it’s always great to have a writer there saying, "This is what we’re thinking, and this is where it’s going to go." I’m trying to emulate that as much as possible.
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Por Kristy Puchko, 25 Marzo 2016
It's taken 21 years for Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's gleefully gory "Preacher" to be adapted for the screen, though not been for lack of trying. But now, after a number of false starts and unsuccessful adaptation attempts, the Vertigo comic is finally on the cusp of becoming a live-action hit.
Ennis, who wrote every issue of the series, along with its tie-in miniseries and one-shots, arrived at SXSW to witness the world premiere of AMC's "Preacher," a TV show shepherded into existence by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, long-time fans of Jesse Custer and his quirky crew.
Following the pilot's screening at the festival, Ennis and showrunner Sam Catlin ("Breaking Bad") sat down with CBR News to discuss "Preacher"s long road from page to screen, the adaptation's evolution, the race-bending of a main character, as well as Ennis' creative process.
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CBR News: How do you even begin to take a series like "Preacher" and transform it into a show?
Garth Ennis: If you're me, you step back and let the experts handle it.
Were you not involved in the show's production?
Ennis: I was involved to the extent that I was consulted pretty much every step of the way. I got the script, the outlines, the dailies. I was in the original meeting where Seth pitched it. I think listening to him, that was when I realized what a great handle he and Evan had on it. The smartest thing for me to do was step back and let them get on with it. I'm really too close to it. If you asked me to do what's being done, if you asked me to adapt "Preacher, " I would flounder. I'm content to let these guys do it.
What was it about Seth and Evan's pitch that sold you on the idea that they should tackle "Preacher"?
Ennis: It was listening to Seth talk about how he saw it coming to the screen, what should be emphasized, what should be held back, what he wanted to play up a bit more than he had seen in the comic. It was really the sense I was getting that he was talking about letting the story breathe. Not going in at 200 miles an hour, like the comic starts. In other words: not trying to put the comic on the screen. Taking the story, leaving the comic behind and doing a TV show.
Allowing it to be its own incarnation.
Ennis: Absolutely. I think that's vital when you're doing an adaptation. You have to consider the medium you're working in rather than the one you're leaving behind, because they are different. You can't pace a TV show the way you do a comic book. It won't work.
It sounds like you have a much healthier attitude about adaptation than some other comic writers seem to have about translations of their work.
Ennis: Well, for twenty years I've listened to various pitches, seen various incarnations. I've realized that you don't want to be too close to it. I did get a bit cynical after a while. [Co-creator] Steve Dillon and I both felt this way, and said, "This will never happen. So let's just take the option money every couple of years and let people figure out for themselves that it's unfilmable."
That sounds like a good business model: write a great, but unfilmable, comic.
Sam Catlin: People have to love it.
Ennis: And then these guys came along. I do go back to the meeting where Seth came out with this pitch that made me realize, this is real now, and he's got it. They've got it. They know what they're doing. This is all right. I can trust these guys. And that made a big difference. Up 'til then, a lot of the things I'd heard had been a lot of, "You know we can't do this. And we can't show that. And yeah, I'm afraid we're going to have to chop this." And there was also a lot of, "Yeah, I don't want to go into details, but just trust me." This was where that ended and something much better began.
At what point, Sam, did you come into this process?
Catlin: A couple of years ago, my agent approached me and said Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are going to adapt this comic, "Preacher," which I'd never heard of. I was like, "Well, I like Seth and Evan. I've never heard of 'Preacher,' send me 'Preacher.'" Then I started reading "Preacher," and I was like, "There's no way that's a TV show. It's crazy. It's like Dom Deluis' acid flashback." [Ennis chuckles] Whatever that means.
Ennis: Sounds good, though.
That'll be the show's tagline.
Catlin: [Laughs] But they were so passionate about it. Then things started to click when we started to realize how we could begin it. To me, that was the hardest part. How do we begin this story? Because, like Garth is saying, it starts at such a high velocity that I couldn't get my mind around how we start moving that fast. Once we figured that out, how we could localize it to giving it a starting spot, then it was just off to the races and fun. We had all these great characters to play with. Once that light went off for me, I was like, "Oh, this could be kick-ass."
How would you describe your responsibilities as a showrunner?
Catlin: I think it's probably different from show to show. I look at myself sort of as Caligula.
Ennis: [Laughs] Just the chap for the job.
Catlin: [Laughs] Yeah! Things are going to run really well for a week, and then we're all going to go down in flames. No. My job is to basically maintain the stories. I run the writers' room, and prep all the incoming directors and am sort of in charge of what comes next.
So is it fair to say the continuity and tone of the show is on your shoulders?
Catlin: Yes, I would say that's a big part of my job.
That sounds hugely intimidating.
Catlin: It is. It's stressful. I told my agent the other day, I was really proud because I haven't broken down sobbing in front of my children yet.
Yet!
Catlin: Which, to me, is my bar of success. [Laughter] Notice I didn't say I haven't done that in front of my wife. But no, it is a lot of stress and pressure. But I am having much more fun than I thought I would, partially because I have so many great people around me, but also because, you're so busy. You have so many responsibilities, from pre-production, to production, to post-production, to writing, you almost don't have time to worry.
What's your edict on whether something will work or not on the show?
Catlin: We're still figuring that out. We really are.
How many episodes have you shot so far?
Catlin: We're on Episode Four, something like that. But any first year show needs to find itself. "Breaking Bad's" probably an outlier in how close the tone was in the beginning to how it was in the end. This is an especially challenging show because of all the different genres and tones. It's just unlike anything on television. Like with "Breaking Bad," even though it's so groundbreaking, you at least can identify it's about regular human behavior in present-day Albuquerque, so that's the world you can play in. With "Preacher," we're figuring it out as we go. This is a world with vampires, Heaven, Hell, angels and all that stuff. So the tone of it is always a work in progress. We're trying to find out what works and what doesn't. And so far, I'm pretty happy with it.
The pilot introduces Jesse, Tulip, Cassidy and Eugene, but not The Saint of Killers. I'm curious how he'll come in.
Ennis: You're going to find that out very quickly.
I'll take that. Garth, were you involved in casting at all?
Ennis: No, I wasn't involved in that. They kept me informed -- I've seen people's tapes, and liked what I've seen, but is a long process. I know that from previous experience. It takes bloody ages. It goes back to leaving it to the experts.
Ruth Negga's Tulip, who we meet in the pilot episode, is a bit different that one we meet in the first issue of the comic. How did this take on the character develop?
Catlin: We really wanted her to start in her own place. We wanted to give her her own entrance. We didn't want her to be arm candy for Jesse. They're such a great couple in the comic that, in terms of trying to pace it out, we wanted to create a gulf between them to start, and give them some tension. Because in the comic, it starts and they have interpersonal tension between them but they are on the same journey together pretty much.
Ennis: Yes.
Catlin: She's sort of down with the road trip. But we wanted to have them butting heads earlier to give us a more of a place to go in later seasons.
Were you at all intimidated by taking a character that was a White blonde woman and casting her as a person of color, considering the backlash over a John Boyega as a Stormtrooper in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" and Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm in "Fantastic Four?" Was that ever a concern?
Catlin: We always wanted it to be the best person for the role. We weren't going to say, "Well, she has to be black" or anything. But early on, the idea was for Jesse and Cassidy and Tulip being a sort of Island of Misfit Toys, an unlikely triumvirate. We thought there was an opportunity -- especially in the deep-South setting -- to have them be Misfit Toys and mismatched and don't really belong together. As much as that's sort of a terrible thing to say about an interracial couple, it felt like there was more stress and strife in a relationship like that. There was an unlikeliness to Jesse and Tulip that we really liked.
Ennis: I should say that if I was doing "Preacher" today -- because I started it in 1994 -- I would probably make it a lot more diverse. Cassidy probably wouldn't even be Irish. He'd probably be English.
Why is that?
Ennis: Just because I think over the past ten years I've grown to really love writing English characters into things. My wife is English, half a dozen of my best friends in the world are English. Steve Dillon, who co-created "Preacher" is English. I don't know if you've read a book I did called "The Boys" -- you may hear of it soon. However, the lead character in that, Billy Butcher, is English. He's from the East End of London, and he's probably my favorite character I've ever written. So although I'll always write Irish characters into things, I'm going further and further away from immediately reaching for one to fill out my cast.
Speaking to expanding more into diversity, why does that interest you?
Ennis: It's not so much something that interests me as much as the necessity one feels to reflect the times, to reflect what's going on in the world. Which is something I feel more strongly now probably than I did when I was setting up "Preacher," where my main concern was just getting the damn thing going. "Preacher" did not spring fully formed. It was the case of taking a building block and adding another and another. Yeah, let's make him a vampire. And what this needs is a more direct link to the Wild West if it's going to be a Western, so Saint of Killers. It was very much like that, groping in the dark. Whereas now, I tend not to do that as much when I'm starting a new story.
So how does a new story gestate for you?
Ennis: God, in many different ways. Today I write a lot of war stories. And war stories are not traditionally popular, so I feel very, very fortunate to be able to do it. I grew up on war comics, because in the UK we didn't have superheroes. I feel like I kind of dodged a bullet there, because it gives me a kind of unique starting point.
Catlin: Yeah. Yeah.
Ennis: So I grew up on war comics. That led to an interest in war history. That means I have a ton of stories I want to tell from throughout the second World War. So in that instance, there's a huge list in the back of my head. Let's start with the Chindits in Burma. Let's move over to Night Fighter operations during the blitz on London. Let's jump wars. Let's go to the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
As for other stories, it can be something you'll get, leave alone, and let the ideas build. And then the time will feel right, and you'll go. Other times, you'll come up with something just on the spur of the moment. I was like, "Yes. Yes! I'm going to do a horror book. That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to do a horror book about a paramedic who looks after monsters. And go!" That one ["Code Pru"] just sprang fully formed, and off I went.
So watching the audience today, as they viewed the episode, does that inform how the show might be shaped in the future? Based on their response?
Catlin: I hadn't seen it with a crowd before, so it was exciting. I mean, we've written almost the entire [10-episode] season, and shot about a third of it at this point. But we don't really know--
Ennis: It's hard to judge, because an audience like that -- and it was a tremendous experience watching it with them -- they're very keyed up. They've probably heard of the book, or they've at least heard of the creative team behind it. So, you wonder how accurate a picture you're getting long term.
Catlin: Yeah.
Ennis: [To Catlin] I mean, you have more experience with this that I do.
Catlin: No, I've never been to a screening like that. There were some "Breaking Bad" screenings, but that was early on, before it was a phenomenon and everyone was just climbing the walls.
Ennis: It's hard to say. Hard to say. But a pretty good experience, regardless
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Por Kristy Puchko, 25 Marzo 2016
It's taken 21 years for Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's gleefully gory "Preacher" to be adapted for the screen, though not been for lack of trying. But now, after a number of false starts and unsuccessful adaptation attempts, the Vertigo comic is finally on the cusp of becoming a live-action hit.
Ennis, who wrote every issue of the series, along with its tie-in miniseries and one-shots, arrived at SXSW to witness the world premiere of AMC's "Preacher," a TV show shepherded into existence by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, long-time fans of Jesse Custer and his quirky crew.
Following the pilot's screening at the festival, Ennis and showrunner Sam Catlin ("Breaking Bad") sat down with CBR News to discuss "Preacher"s long road from page to screen, the adaptation's evolution, the race-bending of a main character, as well as Ennis' creative process.
Story continues below
CBR News: How do you even begin to take a series like "Preacher" and transform it into a show?
Garth Ennis: If you're me, you step back and let the experts handle it.
Were you not involved in the show's production?
Ennis: I was involved to the extent that I was consulted pretty much every step of the way. I got the script, the outlines, the dailies. I was in the original meeting where Seth pitched it. I think listening to him, that was when I realized what a great handle he and Evan had on it. The smartest thing for me to do was step back and let them get on with it. I'm really too close to it. If you asked me to do what's being done, if you asked me to adapt "Preacher, " I would flounder. I'm content to let these guys do it.
What was it about Seth and Evan's pitch that sold you on the idea that they should tackle "Preacher"?
Ennis: It was listening to Seth talk about how he saw it coming to the screen, what should be emphasized, what should be held back, what he wanted to play up a bit more than he had seen in the comic. It was really the sense I was getting that he was talking about letting the story breathe. Not going in at 200 miles an hour, like the comic starts. In other words: not trying to put the comic on the screen. Taking the story, leaving the comic behind and doing a TV show.
Allowing it to be its own incarnation.
Ennis: Absolutely. I think that's vital when you're doing an adaptation. You have to consider the medium you're working in rather than the one you're leaving behind, because they are different. You can't pace a TV show the way you do a comic book. It won't work.
It sounds like you have a much healthier attitude about adaptation than some other comic writers seem to have about translations of their work.
Ennis: Well, for twenty years I've listened to various pitches, seen various incarnations. I've realized that you don't want to be too close to it. I did get a bit cynical after a while. [Co-creator] Steve Dillon and I both felt this way, and said, "This will never happen. So let's just take the option money every couple of years and let people figure out for themselves that it's unfilmable."
That sounds like a good business model: write a great, but unfilmable, comic.
Sam Catlin: People have to love it.
Ennis: And then these guys came along. I do go back to the meeting where Seth came out with this pitch that made me realize, this is real now, and he's got it. They've got it. They know what they're doing. This is all right. I can trust these guys. And that made a big difference. Up 'til then, a lot of the things I'd heard had been a lot of, "You know we can't do this. And we can't show that. And yeah, I'm afraid we're going to have to chop this." And there was also a lot of, "Yeah, I don't want to go into details, but just trust me." This was where that ended and something much better began.
At what point, Sam, did you come into this process?
Catlin: A couple of years ago, my agent approached me and said Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are going to adapt this comic, "Preacher," which I'd never heard of. I was like, "Well, I like Seth and Evan. I've never heard of 'Preacher,' send me 'Preacher.'" Then I started reading "Preacher," and I was like, "There's no way that's a TV show. It's crazy. It's like Dom Deluis' acid flashback." [Ennis chuckles] Whatever that means.
Ennis: Sounds good, though.
That'll be the show's tagline.
Catlin: [Laughs] But they were so passionate about it. Then things started to click when we started to realize how we could begin it. To me, that was the hardest part. How do we begin this story? Because, like Garth is saying, it starts at such a high velocity that I couldn't get my mind around how we start moving that fast. Once we figured that out, how we could localize it to giving it a starting spot, then it was just off to the races and fun. We had all these great characters to play with. Once that light went off for me, I was like, "Oh, this could be kick-ass."
How would you describe your responsibilities as a showrunner?
Catlin: I think it's probably different from show to show. I look at myself sort of as Caligula.
Ennis: [Laughs] Just the chap for the job.
Catlin: [Laughs] Yeah! Things are going to run really well for a week, and then we're all going to go down in flames. No. My job is to basically maintain the stories. I run the writers' room, and prep all the incoming directors and am sort of in charge of what comes next.
So is it fair to say the continuity and tone of the show is on your shoulders?
Catlin: Yes, I would say that's a big part of my job.
That sounds hugely intimidating.
Catlin: It is. It's stressful. I told my agent the other day, I was really proud because I haven't broken down sobbing in front of my children yet.
Yet!
Catlin: Which, to me, is my bar of success. [Laughter] Notice I didn't say I haven't done that in front of my wife. But no, it is a lot of stress and pressure. But I am having much more fun than I thought I would, partially because I have so many great people around me, but also because, you're so busy. You have so many responsibilities, from pre-production, to production, to post-production, to writing, you almost don't have time to worry.
What's your edict on whether something will work or not on the show?
Catlin: We're still figuring that out. We really are.
How many episodes have you shot so far?
Catlin: We're on Episode Four, something like that. But any first year show needs to find itself. "Breaking Bad's" probably an outlier in how close the tone was in the beginning to how it was in the end. This is an especially challenging show because of all the different genres and tones. It's just unlike anything on television. Like with "Breaking Bad," even though it's so groundbreaking, you at least can identify it's about regular human behavior in present-day Albuquerque, so that's the world you can play in. With "Preacher," we're figuring it out as we go. This is a world with vampires, Heaven, Hell, angels and all that stuff. So the tone of it is always a work in progress. We're trying to find out what works and what doesn't. And so far, I'm pretty happy with it.
The pilot introduces Jesse, Tulip, Cassidy and Eugene, but not The Saint of Killers. I'm curious how he'll come in.
Ennis: You're going to find that out very quickly.
I'll take that. Garth, were you involved in casting at all?
Ennis: No, I wasn't involved in that. They kept me informed -- I've seen people's tapes, and liked what I've seen, but is a long process. I know that from previous experience. It takes bloody ages. It goes back to leaving it to the experts.
Ruth Negga's Tulip, who we meet in the pilot episode, is a bit different that one we meet in the first issue of the comic. How did this take on the character develop?
Catlin: We really wanted her to start in her own place. We wanted to give her her own entrance. We didn't want her to be arm candy for Jesse. They're such a great couple in the comic that, in terms of trying to pace it out, we wanted to create a gulf between them to start, and give them some tension. Because in the comic, it starts and they have interpersonal tension between them but they are on the same journey together pretty much.
Ennis: Yes.
Catlin: She's sort of down with the road trip. But we wanted to have them butting heads earlier to give us a more of a place to go in later seasons.
Were you at all intimidated by taking a character that was a White blonde woman and casting her as a person of color, considering the backlash over a John Boyega as a Stormtrooper in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" and Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm in "Fantastic Four?" Was that ever a concern?
Catlin: We always wanted it to be the best person for the role. We weren't going to say, "Well, she has to be black" or anything. But early on, the idea was for Jesse and Cassidy and Tulip being a sort of Island of Misfit Toys, an unlikely triumvirate. We thought there was an opportunity -- especially in the deep-South setting -- to have them be Misfit Toys and mismatched and don't really belong together. As much as that's sort of a terrible thing to say about an interracial couple, it felt like there was more stress and strife in a relationship like that. There was an unlikeliness to Jesse and Tulip that we really liked.
Ennis: I should say that if I was doing "Preacher" today -- because I started it in 1994 -- I would probably make it a lot more diverse. Cassidy probably wouldn't even be Irish. He'd probably be English.
Why is that?
Ennis: Just because I think over the past ten years I've grown to really love writing English characters into things. My wife is English, half a dozen of my best friends in the world are English. Steve Dillon, who co-created "Preacher" is English. I don't know if you've read a book I did called "The Boys" -- you may hear of it soon. However, the lead character in that, Billy Butcher, is English. He's from the East End of London, and he's probably my favorite character I've ever written. So although I'll always write Irish characters into things, I'm going further and further away from immediately reaching for one to fill out my cast.
Speaking to expanding more into diversity, why does that interest you?
Ennis: It's not so much something that interests me as much as the necessity one feels to reflect the times, to reflect what's going on in the world. Which is something I feel more strongly now probably than I did when I was setting up "Preacher," where my main concern was just getting the damn thing going. "Preacher" did not spring fully formed. It was the case of taking a building block and adding another and another. Yeah, let's make him a vampire. And what this needs is a more direct link to the Wild West if it's going to be a Western, so Saint of Killers. It was very much like that, groping in the dark. Whereas now, I tend not to do that as much when I'm starting a new story.
So how does a new story gestate for you?
Ennis: God, in many different ways. Today I write a lot of war stories. And war stories are not traditionally popular, so I feel very, very fortunate to be able to do it. I grew up on war comics, because in the UK we didn't have superheroes. I feel like I kind of dodged a bullet there, because it gives me a kind of unique starting point.
Catlin: Yeah. Yeah.
Ennis: So I grew up on war comics. That led to an interest in war history. That means I have a ton of stories I want to tell from throughout the second World War. So in that instance, there's a huge list in the back of my head. Let's start with the Chindits in Burma. Let's move over to Night Fighter operations during the blitz on London. Let's jump wars. Let's go to the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
As for other stories, it can be something you'll get, leave alone, and let the ideas build. And then the time will feel right, and you'll go. Other times, you'll come up with something just on the spur of the moment. I was like, "Yes. Yes! I'm going to do a horror book. That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to do a horror book about a paramedic who looks after monsters. And go!" That one ["Code Pru"] just sprang fully formed, and off I went.
So watching the audience today, as they viewed the episode, does that inform how the show might be shaped in the future? Based on their response?
Catlin: I hadn't seen it with a crowd before, so it was exciting. I mean, we've written almost the entire [10-episode] season, and shot about a third of it at this point. But we don't really know--
Ennis: It's hard to judge, because an audience like that -- and it was a tremendous experience watching it with them -- they're very keyed up. They've probably heard of the book, or they've at least heard of the creative team behind it. So, you wonder how accurate a picture you're getting long term.
Catlin: Yeah.
Ennis: [To Catlin] I mean, you have more experience with this that I do.
Catlin: No, I've never been to a screening like that. There were some "Breaking Bad" screenings, but that was early on, before it was a phenomenon and everyone was just climbing the walls.
Ennis: It's hard to say. Hard to say. But a pretty good experience, regardless
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Por Albert Ching, 25 Marzo 2016
The TV adaptation of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's seminal DC/Vertigo comic book series "Preacher" is set to debut May 22 on AMC, but before that, two of the stars of the series and the showrunner appeared Friday evening before the WonderCon crowd at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Dominic Cooper and Ruth Negga, who star as Jesse Custer and Tulip, were both in attendance, along with showrunner Sam Catlin.
The panel is starting about 20 minutes late to accommodate the very full crowd, but it's about to begin -- first with the pilot screening. Laptop is closing, but we'll be back in about 45 minutes for the Q&A!
Q&A is starting! First question is for Catlin, about the previously publicized choice to have Tom Cruise to be exploded by Genesis in the pilot. Catlin said they were looking to cast a wide net in men of faith being visited by the entity.
Cooper said he was "desperate" to play Jesse. "It has everything you want as an actor," he said. "There's so much more to discover, and I think that's what I'm relishing in playing him. There's such complexity to him.
Negga on Tulip: "It's not every day you read a script with scenes like that. But it's not every day you meet Tulip. She's a broad character, but she's everything a human being is. She's extremes, she's deeply vulnerable, she has a terrible temper, but she's also loving. She has her own idea of what love is."
All three of the panelists praised the show's stunt coordinators. "It's like a dance they come up with, it's amazing," Catlin said.
Catlin talked Arseface's look on the show as compared to the comic book. "We didn't want him to be so deformed and so hectic looking that it was a distraction, but he had to have a face that looked like an arse," Catlin said. "And we sort of took it from there."
"We wanted to do Garth Ennis' 'Preacher,'" Catlin told the crowd. "We never had any interest in doing an approximation of that. Obviously, we have a different starting point from where we start with Jesse. But everyone wants to do Garth's 'Preacher.' It's really our Bible, it's our road map -- that world, that crazy, fucked up, upside-down world, why do anything less than that, unless someone says no? And no one's said no so far."
Negga discussed Jesse and Tulip's relationship on the series. "He's her reason for being, and I think that she doesn't understand why he doesn't feel the same way at the moment," she said. "She views him as the yin to her yang. She has to short of figure out a life where maybe she might have to stand on her own and separate from him -- and that's kind of scary."
First fan question asked about how much work it took to put the fight scenes together. "A lot," Negga answered. Cooper said it's also to the credit of the show's editors. "When you're fighting, you have to be very aware that you can't actually make contact," Negga said. "If you're watching it when they're filming, it's like a ballet."
Next fan asked if viewers will meet The Saint of Killers this season. "Do you want to meet the Saint of Killers this season?" Catlin asked. "All of those people are going to come, in their time. I promise."
Was there any thought to setting the show in the '90s, when the "Preacher" comic book was coming out? "The hair was too bad," Cooper joked. "To me, and I think Garth agrees, it wasn't a comic about the '90s, it's a comic about America," Catlin answered. "There are certain things I miss, but there were too many things to gain by setting it in the present day."
The next question concerned keeping the show friendly to newcomers to "Preacher" while also appealing to devoted fans of the comic. "The show has to work for 'Preacher' fans, but also has to work for all the people, like myself, who have never read the comic," Catlin said, adding that it's a lot of fun to put "hints and clues" for the comic book fans to pick up on, something that'll be seen as early as the second episode.
Will John Wayne be in the series? "I can't say," Catlin answered.
The last fan at the mic asked Negga and Cooper what their favorite aspects of their characters are. "I think she has an innocence about the world," Negga said of Tulip. "The way she views the world is, there's shit you should do, and shit you shouldn't do, and you've got to pay for the shit you shouldn't do. She's going to come knocking on your door."
"He has the things I've always wanted: Make people do exactly what you say," Cooper replied at the close of the session.
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Por Albert Ching, 25 Marzo 2016
The TV adaptation of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's seminal DC/Vertigo comic book series "Preacher" is set to debut May 22 on AMC, but before that, two of the stars of the series and the showrunner appeared Friday evening before the WonderCon crowd at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Dominic Cooper and Ruth Negga, who star as Jesse Custer and Tulip, were both in attendance, along with showrunner Sam Catlin.
The panel is starting about 20 minutes late to accommodate the very full crowd, but it's about to begin -- first with the pilot screening. Laptop is closing, but we'll be back in about 45 minutes for the Q&A!
Q&A is starting! First question is for Catlin, about the previously publicized choice to have Tom Cruise to be exploded by Genesis in the pilot. Catlin said they were looking to cast a wide net in men of faith being visited by the entity.
Cooper said he was "desperate" to play Jesse. "It has everything you want as an actor," he said. "There's so much more to discover, and I think that's what I'm relishing in playing him. There's such complexity to him.
Negga on Tulip: "It's not every day you read a script with scenes like that. But it's not every day you meet Tulip. She's a broad character, but she's everything a human being is. She's extremes, she's deeply vulnerable, she has a terrible temper, but she's also loving. She has her own idea of what love is."
All three of the panelists praised the show's stunt coordinators. "It's like a dance they come up with, it's amazing," Catlin said.
Catlin talked Arseface's look on the show as compared to the comic book. "We didn't want him to be so deformed and so hectic looking that it was a distraction, but he had to have a face that looked like an arse," Catlin said. "And we sort of took it from there."
"We wanted to do Garth Ennis' 'Preacher,'" Catlin told the crowd. "We never had any interest in doing an approximation of that. Obviously, we have a different starting point from where we start with Jesse. But everyone wants to do Garth's 'Preacher.' It's really our Bible, it's our road map -- that world, that crazy, fucked up, upside-down world, why do anything less than that, unless someone says no? And no one's said no so far."
Negga discussed Jesse and Tulip's relationship on the series. "He's her reason for being, and I think that she doesn't understand why he doesn't feel the same way at the moment," she said. "She views him as the yin to her yang. She has to short of figure out a life where maybe she might have to stand on her own and separate from him -- and that's kind of scary."
First fan question asked about how much work it took to put the fight scenes together. "A lot," Negga answered. Cooper said it's also to the credit of the show's editors. "When you're fighting, you have to be very aware that you can't actually make contact," Negga said. "If you're watching it when they're filming, it's like a ballet."
Next fan asked if viewers will meet The Saint of Killers this season. "Do you want to meet the Saint of Killers this season?" Catlin asked. "All of those people are going to come, in their time. I promise."
Was there any thought to setting the show in the '90s, when the "Preacher" comic book was coming out? "The hair was too bad," Cooper joked. "To me, and I think Garth agrees, it wasn't a comic about the '90s, it's a comic about America," Catlin answered. "There are certain things I miss, but there were too many things to gain by setting it in the present day."
The next question concerned keeping the show friendly to newcomers to "Preacher" while also appealing to devoted fans of the comic. "The show has to work for 'Preacher' fans, but also has to work for all the people, like myself, who have never read the comic," Catlin said, adding that it's a lot of fun to put "hints and clues" for the comic book fans to pick up on, something that'll be seen as early as the second episode.
Will John Wayne be in the series? "I can't say," Catlin answered.
The last fan at the mic asked Negga and Cooper what their favorite aspects of their characters are. "I think she has an innocence about the world," Negga said of Tulip. "The way she views the world is, there's shit you should do, and shit you shouldn't do, and you've got to pay for the shit you shouldn't do. She's going to come knocking on your door."
"He has the things I've always wanted: Make people do exactly what you say," Cooper replied at the close of the session.
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El Showrunner de ‘Preacher’ Sam Catlin habla sobre el introducir Heaven y Satan
Por Fred Topel 28 Marzo, 2016
AMC presented a panel on the upcoming series Preacher at Wondercon. Before the panel, showrunner Sam Catlin and stars Dominic Cooper and Ruth Negga spoke with reporters. Catlin said he did not know series creators Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg before he started working on the project, and had not heard of the Preacher comic book series. Catlin took a meeting with the pair and started explaining the needs of a television series, to which he says they were receptive.
“I would say, ‘You can’t pace it that way for a TV show. We won’t be able to do X, Y and Z then because where would you put your sets?’” Catlin said. “Stuff like that, because they’d never really done TV before. What I like about Preacher [comics] is it has a modular [structure]. You can kind of lift and place stories all over the place sort of like episodes. He goes to Louisiana. There are these chapters to it, which is really liberating. You can tell stories all over the place. As long as you still have that drive of what Jesse wants, who he’s looking for, you can go anywhere you want.”
After reading Preacher, Catlin had the idea to slow down Jesse Custer (Cooper)’s crisis of faith. “To me the entry point to it was maybe he hasn’t given up on God from the beginning,” Catlin said. “Maybe we see him actually as a preacher trying to be a preacher. He’s still a hot mess. Once I figured out where we could start with him, without compromising because it’s not Little House on the Prairie. It’s Preacher. It’s crazy, bloody, over the top. It’s got to be that week after week after week but it’s also got to be producible.”
The pilot of Preacher introduces the vampire Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) and the power of Genesis. Catlin wants to gradually introduce the audience to the more outrageous aspects of Preacher.
“I think we want to do it step by step,” Catlin said. “If we showed in the first episode DeBlanc and Fiore and Heaven and their floating space station with a hole in it… you need to ratchet these things up. I think the idea of the show is: oh, you’re okay with vampires now? Okay, what about this? What about this and this and this? It’s like putting a frog in a bowl of boiling water or something like that so that by the time you look upon Satan, you’re like, ‘Okay, yeah. That makes sense.’”
Cooper revealed that an episode in Heaven is part of the plan. At least it was when he met with Rogen, Goldberg and Catlin. “They were all talking at the same time,” Cooper recalled. “They were all so animated and so excited and the things they were coming out with, because I hadn’t read all of the comic by that point. They were saying, ‘Some of the episodes will be in this small town in Annville. Then we’ll be in Heaven just for a whole potato,’ something absurd like that. I loved it and that made me even more excited about the project.”
Catlin himself had an actual “F*** Communism” lighter. He plans to include that reference in a later season, and can get it by basic cable standards and practices, but it won’t be season one.
“See, what we’re going to do is, we’ll distress one of the letters,” Catlin said. “It’s not a season one thing. That’s my big breaking news for you.”
AMC is no slouch when it comes to bold content like Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead. “I don’t think people are going to watch the show and say, ‘Oh God, I wish it were on HBO because then they could really fucking go for it,’” Catlin said. “I don’t think people are going to think that. I really don’t. I don’t think people are going to be like, ‘Wow, they left money on the floor.’ I mean, I think people are going to have strong opinions about the show but in terms of AMC, we’ve never gotten word one from them about, ‘Don’t forget, it’s Preacher TV.’ They want us to do Preacher. They don’t want to see us fuck it up by doing the PG-13 version. In terms of the language, there’s a little bit of restriction but Cassidy swears so much in Irish it gets past S&P every time.”
Cooper has shorter hair than Jesse Custer in Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s books, but he said there is a flashback to a time when Jesse let his hair flow. “We did a scene, some of the flashback stuff, the other day and I chose the hair,” Cooper said. “I said, ‘Let’s make it blonde.’ We might go back to that but it’s too ’90s. I kind of wanted the tight white jeans as well. It was all suddenly put together so quickly, it was just like creating a wig may not have been the right thing to do but actually having had more time and being able to look at some stuff with flashback, it kind of felt more him actually. It really worked so maybe we’ll go to that later.”
Tulip O’Hare looks dramatically different in the series too. In the comics, she is a Caucasian blonde. Negga is excited for how her casting might change the storyline for Jesse and Tulip.
“A lot of people have said it’s going to change things because of Jesse’s family and everything, and they’re right,” Negga said. “It will change things. I think, isn’t that amazing that it will change things? Can you imagine Jesse’s grandmother thinking that her great grandchild will be mixed race? It would kill her. That would finally put the nail in the coffin. Brilliant.”
The pilot of Preacher is well over a single hour, as many episodes of AMC series have the freedom to be. Catlin apologized for going over in the pilot. “That wasn’t supposed to be an hour and a half,” Catlin said. “We just didn’t know what to cut. We just had so much story and character. Pilots are hard because you have to introduce so much. Also in this particular pilot, we’re not just introducing three people. We’re introducing the character of the town so it just takes up a lot of space.”
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Por Fred Topel 28 Marzo, 2016
AMC presented a panel on the upcoming series Preacher at Wondercon. Before the panel, showrunner Sam Catlin and stars Dominic Cooper and Ruth Negga spoke with reporters. Catlin said he did not know series creators Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg before he started working on the project, and had not heard of the Preacher comic book series. Catlin took a meeting with the pair and started explaining the needs of a television series, to which he says they were receptive.
“I would say, ‘You can’t pace it that way for a TV show. We won’t be able to do X, Y and Z then because where would you put your sets?’” Catlin said. “Stuff like that, because they’d never really done TV before. What I like about Preacher [comics] is it has a modular [structure]. You can kind of lift and place stories all over the place sort of like episodes. He goes to Louisiana. There are these chapters to it, which is really liberating. You can tell stories all over the place. As long as you still have that drive of what Jesse wants, who he’s looking for, you can go anywhere you want.”
After reading Preacher, Catlin had the idea to slow down Jesse Custer (Cooper)’s crisis of faith. “To me the entry point to it was maybe he hasn’t given up on God from the beginning,” Catlin said. “Maybe we see him actually as a preacher trying to be a preacher. He’s still a hot mess. Once I figured out where we could start with him, without compromising because it’s not Little House on the Prairie. It’s Preacher. It’s crazy, bloody, over the top. It’s got to be that week after week after week but it’s also got to be producible.”
The pilot of Preacher introduces the vampire Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) and the power of Genesis. Catlin wants to gradually introduce the audience to the more outrageous aspects of Preacher.
“I think we want to do it step by step,” Catlin said. “If we showed in the first episode DeBlanc and Fiore and Heaven and their floating space station with a hole in it… you need to ratchet these things up. I think the idea of the show is: oh, you’re okay with vampires now? Okay, what about this? What about this and this and this? It’s like putting a frog in a bowl of boiling water or something like that so that by the time you look upon Satan, you’re like, ‘Okay, yeah. That makes sense.’”
Cooper revealed that an episode in Heaven is part of the plan. At least it was when he met with Rogen, Goldberg and Catlin. “They were all talking at the same time,” Cooper recalled. “They were all so animated and so excited and the things they were coming out with, because I hadn’t read all of the comic by that point. They were saying, ‘Some of the episodes will be in this small town in Annville. Then we’ll be in Heaven just for a whole potato,’ something absurd like that. I loved it and that made me even more excited about the project.”
Catlin himself had an actual “F*** Communism” lighter. He plans to include that reference in a later season, and can get it by basic cable standards and practices, but it won’t be season one.
“See, what we’re going to do is, we’ll distress one of the letters,” Catlin said. “It’s not a season one thing. That’s my big breaking news for you.”
AMC is no slouch when it comes to bold content like Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead. “I don’t think people are going to watch the show and say, ‘Oh God, I wish it were on HBO because then they could really fucking go for it,’” Catlin said. “I don’t think people are going to think that. I really don’t. I don’t think people are going to be like, ‘Wow, they left money on the floor.’ I mean, I think people are going to have strong opinions about the show but in terms of AMC, we’ve never gotten word one from them about, ‘Don’t forget, it’s Preacher TV.’ They want us to do Preacher. They don’t want to see us fuck it up by doing the PG-13 version. In terms of the language, there’s a little bit of restriction but Cassidy swears so much in Irish it gets past S&P every time.”
Cooper has shorter hair than Jesse Custer in Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s books, but he said there is a flashback to a time when Jesse let his hair flow. “We did a scene, some of the flashback stuff, the other day and I chose the hair,” Cooper said. “I said, ‘Let’s make it blonde.’ We might go back to that but it’s too ’90s. I kind of wanted the tight white jeans as well. It was all suddenly put together so quickly, it was just like creating a wig may not have been the right thing to do but actually having had more time and being able to look at some stuff with flashback, it kind of felt more him actually. It really worked so maybe we’ll go to that later.”
Tulip O’Hare looks dramatically different in the series too. In the comics, she is a Caucasian blonde. Negga is excited for how her casting might change the storyline for Jesse and Tulip.
“A lot of people have said it’s going to change things because of Jesse’s family and everything, and they’re right,” Negga said. “It will change things. I think, isn’t that amazing that it will change things? Can you imagine Jesse’s grandmother thinking that her great grandchild will be mixed race? It would kill her. That would finally put the nail in the coffin. Brilliant.”
The pilot of Preacher is well over a single hour, as many episodes of AMC series have the freedom to be. Catlin apologized for going over in the pilot. “That wasn’t supposed to be an hour and a half,” Catlin said. “We just didn’t know what to cut. We just had so much story and character. Pilots are hard because you have to introduce so much. Also in this particular pilot, we’re not just introducing three people. We’re introducing the character of the town so it just takes up a lot of space.”
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Confesamos al Elenco de Preacher
Por Alyse Wax 28 Marzo, 2016
The new AMC series Preacher is awesome. I have never read the comics, but after seeing the first episode ahead of this year’s WonderCon, I went home and ordered the whole series of comic books. The general consensus I heard among fans of the comic about the show is, “The show is great, but it is very different from the comic book.”
Preacher showrunner Sam Catlin admits that the most challenging part of launching the show based on the comic book was where to begin, in terms of the story. “The spirit of [the comic] is in the show from the beginning. That crazy, Garth Ennis world. We changed some things narratively from where we begin, but hopefully the world is recognizable as ‘Preacher.'”
For those who don’t know, the studio describes Preacher as “a supernatural, twisted and darkly comedic drama that follows a West Texas preacher named Jesse Custer, who is inhabited by an entity and develops a highly unconventional power. Along with his ex-girlfriend Tulip, Jesse and an Irish vagabond named Cassidy come together and when they do, trouble seems to follow them wherever they go.” For those who are familiar with Preacher, that description does not do it justice.
“It’s a world where anything can happen,” says Sam Catlin, showrunner for Preacher. “There’s god, there’s angels, there’s vampires, there’s cowboys, there’s the South of France, there’s cults. It has been so liberating!
“When I first read [the comic], I didn’t think we could do it as a TV show, because it starts like a bat out of hell and it doesn’t really slow down,” Catlin continues. “The pace of the comic books just isn’t a television pace. We figured out how great and crazy the universe of ‘Preacher’ could be in a [single] location, and let the trouble come to them in certain ways. By the end of this season I feel like we are just scratching the surface of the stories we can get to.”
Dominic Cooper plays Jesse Custer, the titular preacher. The British actor, probably best known for his role as Howard Stark (Tony’s dad) in the Marvel Universe, admits that he was worried about playing a Texan. “Jesse is unlike any other character I’ve ever played in his stillness and darkness. I have no real understanding of the size of Texas; it is bigger than the country I grew up in!” The show shoots in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Cooper has wanted to take a field trip to rural west Texas, but hasn’t gotten the chance. “I just kept reading the comic over and over, to try to get an understanding of what that must be like.”
Ruth Negga plays Tulip, Jesse’s hot-tempered ex-girlfriend. Despite the action and violence in the comic book, she never had any reservations about taking the role. “I admire her. I completely fell in love with her,” says Negga. She does admit she was worried that she would get “vitriol” from the ardent fan base because Tulip in the comic book is white and blonde. So far she hasn’t faced any of that, but she also admits she doesn’t engage in social media. “It scares me a lot!” Catlin says that race will have to play into the story. “She’s black and living in west Texas. It will come up when it comes up. I don’t think she thinks of herself as African-American; she thinks of herself as Tulip.”
“Everything is on Tulip’s terms,” Negga continues. “She sees the world through her kaleidoscope. She has super-strong morals, but they’re not maybe your morals. She has a childish idea of justice, and I don’t mean that in a derogatory way…her idea of the world is so straight-forward.” Her biggest challenge is keeping Tulip anchored in reality. “She is so delicious, the tendency is to dive in and make her big.” She believes that Tulip would always stand up for the underdog because she is the ultimate underdog.
Those familiar with the Preacher comic book know there is a lot of violence; that is the world that Preacher occupies. Some have been concerned that the show would be watered down to be safe for basic cable. Catlin says that AMC has been great with the sex and violence. “This isn’t ‘basic cable ‘Preacher’; this is ‘Preacher,'” he insists. He does, however, admit that there is one sequence towards the end of the season that is still “under discussion.” “It’s pretty f*cked up,” he says of the sequence. Of course, he can’t tell us what it is.
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Por Alyse Wax 28 Marzo, 2016
The new AMC series Preacher is awesome. I have never read the comics, but after seeing the first episode ahead of this year’s WonderCon, I went home and ordered the whole series of comic books. The general consensus I heard among fans of the comic about the show is, “The show is great, but it is very different from the comic book.”
Preacher showrunner Sam Catlin admits that the most challenging part of launching the show based on the comic book was where to begin, in terms of the story. “The spirit of [the comic] is in the show from the beginning. That crazy, Garth Ennis world. We changed some things narratively from where we begin, but hopefully the world is recognizable as ‘Preacher.'”
For those who don’t know, the studio describes Preacher as “a supernatural, twisted and darkly comedic drama that follows a West Texas preacher named Jesse Custer, who is inhabited by an entity and develops a highly unconventional power. Along with his ex-girlfriend Tulip, Jesse and an Irish vagabond named Cassidy come together and when they do, trouble seems to follow them wherever they go.” For those who are familiar with Preacher, that description does not do it justice.
“It’s a world where anything can happen,” says Sam Catlin, showrunner for Preacher. “There’s god, there’s angels, there’s vampires, there’s cowboys, there’s the South of France, there’s cults. It has been so liberating!
“When I first read [the comic], I didn’t think we could do it as a TV show, because it starts like a bat out of hell and it doesn’t really slow down,” Catlin continues. “The pace of the comic books just isn’t a television pace. We figured out how great and crazy the universe of ‘Preacher’ could be in a [single] location, and let the trouble come to them in certain ways. By the end of this season I feel like we are just scratching the surface of the stories we can get to.”
Dominic Cooper plays Jesse Custer, the titular preacher. The British actor, probably best known for his role as Howard Stark (Tony’s dad) in the Marvel Universe, admits that he was worried about playing a Texan. “Jesse is unlike any other character I’ve ever played in his stillness and darkness. I have no real understanding of the size of Texas; it is bigger than the country I grew up in!” The show shoots in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Cooper has wanted to take a field trip to rural west Texas, but hasn’t gotten the chance. “I just kept reading the comic over and over, to try to get an understanding of what that must be like.”
Ruth Negga plays Tulip, Jesse’s hot-tempered ex-girlfriend. Despite the action and violence in the comic book, she never had any reservations about taking the role. “I admire her. I completely fell in love with her,” says Negga. She does admit she was worried that she would get “vitriol” from the ardent fan base because Tulip in the comic book is white and blonde. So far she hasn’t faced any of that, but she also admits she doesn’t engage in social media. “It scares me a lot!” Catlin says that race will have to play into the story. “She’s black and living in west Texas. It will come up when it comes up. I don’t think she thinks of herself as African-American; she thinks of herself as Tulip.”
“Everything is on Tulip’s terms,” Negga continues. “She sees the world through her kaleidoscope. She has super-strong morals, but they’re not maybe your morals. She has a childish idea of justice, and I don’t mean that in a derogatory way…her idea of the world is so straight-forward.” Her biggest challenge is keeping Tulip anchored in reality. “She is so delicious, the tendency is to dive in and make her big.” She believes that Tulip would always stand up for the underdog because she is the ultimate underdog.
Those familiar with the Preacher comic book know there is a lot of violence; that is the world that Preacher occupies. Some have been concerned that the show would be watered down to be safe for basic cable. Catlin says that AMC has been great with the sex and violence. “This isn’t ‘basic cable ‘Preacher’; this is ‘Preacher,'” he insists. He does, however, admit that there is one sequence towards the end of the season that is still “under discussion.” “It’s pretty f*cked up,” he says of the sequence. Of course, he can’t tell us what it is.
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- Showrunner de ‘Preacher’ Sam Catlin Promete que la serie de la AMC no será “Preacher-Light” (collider):
Showrunner de ‘Preacher’ Sam Catlin Promete que la serie de la AMC no será “Preacher-Light”
Por Haleigh Foutch 03 Abril 2016
Often considered one of the most impossible-to-adapt properties on the market, Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon‘s cult graphic novel Preacher is finally heading to screens in the form of an AMC series. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, self-professed megafans of the comic, have taken up the challenge of reimagining Preacher’s insane world for the screen and picked up Breaking Bad‘s Sam Catlin to showrun the series. The result (at least based on the stellar pilot) is the best kind of adaptation; one that honors the source material without becoming beholden to it.
Just before Preacher‘s WonderCon screening, I joined a handful of journalists to talk with Catlin about why he had to be convinced Preacher could be turned into a TV show, shaking up the pace for the televised format, what Breaking Bad taught him about writing characters, knowing he’s making something that’s going to piss everybody off, and a whole lot more. We even went deep on why Cassidy can’t wear his signature sunglasses all the time.
QUESTION: I’m sure you already kind of noticed that Preacher has a very devoted fan base as most adaptations tend to have, so going into that what was the most important part for you to kind of keep true to the essence of the original story and stuff like that? What was the most challenging part?
SAM CATLIN: The most challenging part? Where to begin, definitely. In terms of the story, where to start was the most challenging part. But the spirit of it is what we really hope is in the show, from the beginning, that crazy Garth Ennis world. We changed some things narratively from where we begin, but hopefully the world is recognizable as Preacher.
Where to start is just one thing in a huge amount of story, how did you guys approach the line of staying faithful and doing what you wanted and changing things?
CATLIN: Well, I’d never adapted anything before, I didn’t know what the rules were. I didn’t know you could change things. So when I first started reading the comic, Seth and Evan brought it to me, and I was like, “I don’t know how you make that a TV show. That’s not a TV show, that’s an amazing comic book.” But once I started to figure out, “Okay, if the characters are here…” How do we make – Because if we were to shoot the comic book of Preacher, it would be like $400 or 500 million, we would be unproducible. So how do we make a show that is a TV show but pushes all of those boundaries in a similar way that doesn’t feel like “Preacher Lite,” or “Preacher TV.” So, yeah. Once we figured out a way to bring the characters together and started to realize how we could parcel out the story, once we figured out where we could start.
I think that first idea came when – You know, he’s sort of a preacher in name only in the comic book. You never see him as a preacher — very little — but he’s immediately disillusioned and on his way out. And I think once we sort of figured out, well no, maybe we can still have this gonzo world and have all these crazy things happening and he’s still trying to be a preacher, still kind of trying to do preacher shit. And help people, but not in a boring navel-gazing way, but sort of a spiritual sheriff to this town and once we came up with this idea of this really sin-soaked town that needs redemption, that needs a good preacher, it felt like that was a good place to start with it.
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Previously, you worked on Breaking Bad, so what if any sort of similarities do you see between Jesse Custer and Walter White?
CATLIN: Huh. Well, I don’t know, I had never thought of that. Well Walter White is, if I’m going to give an overly simplified answer, I’d say Walter White is a good man trying to turn bad and Jesse Custer is a bad man trying to turn good, in a lot of ways. That’s not really true because Walt was really, he was what he was all along underneath that. Walter White makes so many things possible in terms of protagonists and we learned a lot on that show about how dark we can push a character and still have the audience be in his corner. And just pushing the boundaries of what’s doable in a lead character. So, that’s one of the things that’s very exciting, because Jesse, and Tulip, and Cassidy, and a lot of the characters, kind of really do some bad shit. As a writer, and I’m sure for them as actors, it’s always exciting to see how far you can push someone, and still not be a bad guy, you know? So, I learned a lot in terms of how dark you can go and still get away with it.
Is that the way that Seth and Evan brought the material to you? That it’s full of these characters that do incredibly bad things and yet you still love them all the way through?
CATLIN: When they brought it to me, they were like, “Dude, you gotta see this thing, you haven’t heard of Preacher? Man.” No, I don’t read comics since I was like, a kid. And he was like, “No, no you gotta read this.” So I read it and it was great, but like I said I didn’t know how to turn it into a television show. But,to me, what they brought was it’s a world where anything can happen, it’s just crazy and upside down. There’s god, there’s angels, there’s vampires, there’s cowboys. There’s the south of France, there’s cults, in a lot of ways it was liberating to come from – it’s been challenging in other ways, but coming from Breaking Bad, things were very clear, it’s people, it’s present day Albuquerque. All the rules are still like – you’re painting within numbers that are normal human behavior. But with Preacher you sort of have to make up your own rules about what’s possible. So that’s been sort of liberating. You can’t just be anything goes, because there always has to be limits so it doesn’t feel like children playing with finger paint, but it’s just been a very different experience than Breaking Bad. Liberating, just like “What if they do this? What if they go there? What if they just go to hell?” So, that’s fun.
Have you had any trouble, as far as the gore, with AMC, or are they pretty open to blow up however many people you want?
CATLIN: No, there’s a sequence that’s under discussion towards the very end that is very – that’s the only time there’s ever been anything that’s like, “Is there a way to maybe…?” But they’ve been great.
What is the sequence?
CATLIN: I can’t tell you, but it’s pretty fucked up. [laughs] But they’ve been really great. And the violence, there’s been very little… From the beginning, I’m sure people were like, “Well, I wish it were on HBO because you could do whatever you wanted and it would be so awesome,” but I’m telling you this is not Preacher TV, this is not Preacher for basic cable, it’s fuckin’ Preacher.
We’ve all seen the pilot and it’s great by a way, but it makes you wonder, how far can this go? In the books, Steve Dillon illustrates the arseface suicide, is that something that’s going to be shown in the show? Because that’s a very touchy subject.
CATLIN: Yeah, it is. Well, I won’t say specifically about that, but Garth really pushes the envelope in terms of those stories, and I will say we really did too. In terms of, there’s some silly violence and there’s some crazy perverse violence but there’s also some real violence and some real sin. It’s not just – to me, there’s all different kinds of violence in the show, there’s Cassidy in the plane and it’s sort of silly and playful, there’s jazz music, but then there’s Jesse’s going to break a guy’s arm just because.
That was great.
CATLIN: Because he wants to hear the sound. So, yeah, hopefully. We just have had very little… The sex will be [laughs] the sex is also a really fun challenge, too. It’s obviously a big part of Jesse and Tulip’s relationship, but it’s also a big part of the comedy. And that’s something that we’re really excited to play with.
How far does season 1 go in the timeline of Preacher?
CATLIN: Well, I won’t say exactly, but in terms of Jesse’s journey, we look at where he’s at, in one way that Season 1 is a prequel a little bit, which doesn’t mean that characters or situations or people obviously don’t appear until the end of the season. We push some stuff later and we bring some stuff earlier.
Can you at least tell us, and we can do it off the record, do we get Saint of Killers in Season 1?
CATLIN: I can’t tell you.
[laughs]
CATLIN: I can’t say. But I will say that we’re very much aware –
Of characters that are in this world that people want to see, right?
CATLIN: Right. And they’re going to see them. Yes.
Do you guys have it arched out for a certain amount of seasons?
CATLIN: No, we don’t. What’s so exciting about it too is you sort of know how it starts — well, now we know how it starts, because we started — and you sort of have a sense of how it’s going to end, but there are so many chapters in between that are these vignettes or chapters, different stories, they’re sort of seasons unto themselves. They feel like worlds unto themselves, whether it’s the Bayou or San Francisco or New York or any of these places we want to go or invent ourselves or transpose together. And also the way he plays with time, there’s ways of going back in time, so it’s a little different than Breaking Bad where he gets diagnosed with cancer, and you can flashback all you want but it’s a real line from A to B. There’s no time for dallying, and Preacher has all sorts of great opportunities for fucking around and going down the wrong road and stuff like that.
I have a very important question. How often will Cassidy be wearing his glasses?
CATLIN: How often will he be wearing his sunglasses?
Yeah. Trust me, that’s a point of contention with some of my nerd friends is that you saw him without his glasses.
He’s very upset about this.
CATLIN: Are you the friend?
[laughs] It’s me. When I went into the pilot I was like, “He’s not wearing his sunglasses,” and 10 minutes in, I was like, “Shut up.” And it was great, but I’m just curious. But I was talking to someone and they were saying that it’s very difficult to act when you can’t see someone’s eyes.
CATLIN: Well you can act all you want but you can’t understand what they’re feeling. You really do need to be able to see the actor’s eyes. It’s sort of a reveal in Preacher – and then his eyes are all jacked up like that. I think it would be hard to really connect in the way you would need to over time with him, but he’s going to have his sunglasses on plenty. But there’s something about a guy that’s always in his sunglasses that, I don’t know, it’s how we communicate with other people, we read their is the eyes. After a while, we just thought that it would a ceiling or a wall to Cassidy. But yeah, I hear you. Get over it.
Jumping back to the timeline a little bit, the pilot takes its time to luxuriate, it doesn’t take off on the action right away. Do you guys feel pressure knowing that fans are going to want to get places and how much do you feel comfortable just really slow rolling it?
CATLIN: That was sort of what I was talking about when I said that I first read it and didn’t think we could do it as a tv show, because it starts like a bat out of hell and it doesn’t really slow down. So, it’s just, the pace of it, the narrative is just not a television pace. You can’t tell a story like that. It’s not even just that you couldn’t afford it, you just can’t just do people driving from one town to the next to the next to the next, because of the production of it, but it’s also going to tell a story, if it’s crazy 100 MPH all the time, it could saturate. But I feel like once we figured out how great and crazy and perverse the world of Preacher could be, in a location, in one place and let the trouble come to them in certain ways. I don’t feel like we’re vamping or anything like that. By the end of this season we’ve only just scratched the surface of the stories that we can get to. But I don’t feel like we’re playing it out. There’s a bunch of stuff in Season 1. I don’t think that people at the end of Season 1, people won’t be like, “Well, they sort of didn’t have anything to do there so they sort of like, it was kind of like My Dinner with Andre.” There’s plenty of stuff that happens in our slow moving Season 1.
Well even in the pilot it was slower moving than the comics but there was a ton that happens.
CATLIN: Yeah.
Are you ready for the protests? I mean like, One Million Moms protesting Lucifer on Fox. Like, nothing compared to this. God’s a deadbeat that leaves heaven. Are you ready?
CATLIN: I tell my wife, that if we do this right, our lives won’t be worth a nickel. They’re going to come for us. Between the comic book people and the religious right, yeah, Tom Cruise, yeah. I don’t know if anything, I mean with politics, the political year, anything can happen like that where people get their hands on it and are just like, “Oh, they got the pothead Canadians and the guy from Massachusetts kicking the shit out of religion.” But it’s really not – the show is really crazy, it doesn’t pull any punches or anything like that, but I wouldn’t say it’s anti [religious] — it’s sort of anti everything, in a lot of ways. It’s not pro-atheism, let’s put it that way. It sort of just takes on anything and everything and in a way that I feel is fun. But not socially irresponsible. It takes on these big institutions.
But, again, Jesse is this, he’s a preacher, he believes in god, he’s a very devout man in a way. His father was a preacher, so he’s steeped in religion and knows the bible backwards and forwards. And it wouldn’t be a very interesting lead character if we were just writing him as a dick or an idiot or a sucker. It’s our job and Dominic’s job and everyone’s job to absolutely make the argument for the necessity of believing in god. Because that’s certainly where he starts. I don’t think anyone’s interested in a Hollywood takedown of religious people, you know? It’s just too easy. I think Christian people, young Christian people – there are a bunch of Christian people that aren’t even going to look at it, they’re going to throw their television out of a window, but I think there’s going to be a lot of Christian people that are going to love this show. We have a Jesuit priest on our writing staff, we have a Christian, both her parents were ministers in west Texas. I think there’s a tendency to think it’s a huge monolith, especially with younger Christians, and I think they’re going to dig it because to have somebody like Jesse Custer as a guy who’s trying to get answers from god, who’s pissed off, I think it’s pretty universal. I think people are really going to dig it.
Some of the humor in the comic, and even some of the menace and threat, now could be viewed as homophobic. And even Garth Ennis himself has said that he was in a different place when he wrote a lot of the material in the ’90s. How do you approach the fact that “getting buggered” is a common threat in the book or a common joke?
CATLIN: Yeah. Oh god, Seth and Evan were saying movies they wrote five or six years ago are homophobic now, the sense of what’s appropriate has really changed a lot in the last 15 years. Yeah, we’re not going to be homophobic. But we may have a character that’s super homophobic. But he better watch his ass because he’s going to get in trouble, we’re going to fuck him up. [laughs] There’s going to be all sorts of people like that. But I mean, it’s a 20-year-old comic and there’s a few things that like you said, Garth said are a little dated. And we’re not going to, it’s not like there has to be buggery! We’ll update it. We’ll make it offensive but in brand new ways.
Kind of piggy backing off that. Tulip’s character in the book is white. There’s a lot of themes of racism and racist characters in the book. How will that play into the different race of Tulip onscreen, or will it?
CATLIN: Well, it has to. She’s black, she’s living in west Texas and it will come up when it comes up. I don’t think she’s a very political animal, I don’t think she thinks of herself as an African-American. I think there’s all sorts of great stories that are going to come up about that. We love that there’s, you know, I don’t think we cast her as black because, “Well, it’s time to really roll up our sleeves and get to the issues.” To us, we just like “He’s a vampire, Jesse’s Jesse — he’s a fuckin’ mess, she’s black and she’s a mess,” and It’s a big ugly pairing and we love it. They don’t really fit together which is why they fit together so great. In their own way, they’re all sort of outcasts. But it wasn’t a mandate she be African-American. She’s not even American. We haven’t cast any American actors in the show, really.
Everybody has the opposite accent than you would expect.
CATLIN: He’s British, she’s Irish-Ethiopian, Joe is English. And we’ve got like three other English people on the show. I don’t know what happened.
http://collider.com/preacher-amc-sam-catlin-interview/
Por Haleigh Foutch 03 Abril 2016
Often considered one of the most impossible-to-adapt properties on the market, Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon‘s cult graphic novel Preacher is finally heading to screens in the form of an AMC series. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, self-professed megafans of the comic, have taken up the challenge of reimagining Preacher’s insane world for the screen and picked up Breaking Bad‘s Sam Catlin to showrun the series. The result (at least based on the stellar pilot) is the best kind of adaptation; one that honors the source material without becoming beholden to it.
Just before Preacher‘s WonderCon screening, I joined a handful of journalists to talk with Catlin about why he had to be convinced Preacher could be turned into a TV show, shaking up the pace for the televised format, what Breaking Bad taught him about writing characters, knowing he’s making something that’s going to piss everybody off, and a whole lot more. We even went deep on why Cassidy can’t wear his signature sunglasses all the time.
QUESTION: I’m sure you already kind of noticed that Preacher has a very devoted fan base as most adaptations tend to have, so going into that what was the most important part for you to kind of keep true to the essence of the original story and stuff like that? What was the most challenging part?
SAM CATLIN: The most challenging part? Where to begin, definitely. In terms of the story, where to start was the most challenging part. But the spirit of it is what we really hope is in the show, from the beginning, that crazy Garth Ennis world. We changed some things narratively from where we begin, but hopefully the world is recognizable as Preacher.
Where to start is just one thing in a huge amount of story, how did you guys approach the line of staying faithful and doing what you wanted and changing things?
CATLIN: Well, I’d never adapted anything before, I didn’t know what the rules were. I didn’t know you could change things. So when I first started reading the comic, Seth and Evan brought it to me, and I was like, “I don’t know how you make that a TV show. That’s not a TV show, that’s an amazing comic book.” But once I started to figure out, “Okay, if the characters are here…” How do we make – Because if we were to shoot the comic book of Preacher, it would be like $400 or 500 million, we would be unproducible. So how do we make a show that is a TV show but pushes all of those boundaries in a similar way that doesn’t feel like “Preacher Lite,” or “Preacher TV.” So, yeah. Once we figured out a way to bring the characters together and started to realize how we could parcel out the story, once we figured out where we could start.
I think that first idea came when – You know, he’s sort of a preacher in name only in the comic book. You never see him as a preacher — very little — but he’s immediately disillusioned and on his way out. And I think once we sort of figured out, well no, maybe we can still have this gonzo world and have all these crazy things happening and he’s still trying to be a preacher, still kind of trying to do preacher shit. And help people, but not in a boring navel-gazing way, but sort of a spiritual sheriff to this town and once we came up with this idea of this really sin-soaked town that needs redemption, that needs a good preacher, it felt like that was a good place to start with it.
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Previously, you worked on Breaking Bad, so what if any sort of similarities do you see between Jesse Custer and Walter White?
CATLIN: Huh. Well, I don’t know, I had never thought of that. Well Walter White is, if I’m going to give an overly simplified answer, I’d say Walter White is a good man trying to turn bad and Jesse Custer is a bad man trying to turn good, in a lot of ways. That’s not really true because Walt was really, he was what he was all along underneath that. Walter White makes so many things possible in terms of protagonists and we learned a lot on that show about how dark we can push a character and still have the audience be in his corner. And just pushing the boundaries of what’s doable in a lead character. So, that’s one of the things that’s very exciting, because Jesse, and Tulip, and Cassidy, and a lot of the characters, kind of really do some bad shit. As a writer, and I’m sure for them as actors, it’s always exciting to see how far you can push someone, and still not be a bad guy, you know? So, I learned a lot in terms of how dark you can go and still get away with it.
Is that the way that Seth and Evan brought the material to you? That it’s full of these characters that do incredibly bad things and yet you still love them all the way through?
CATLIN: When they brought it to me, they were like, “Dude, you gotta see this thing, you haven’t heard of Preacher? Man.” No, I don’t read comics since I was like, a kid. And he was like, “No, no you gotta read this.” So I read it and it was great, but like I said I didn’t know how to turn it into a television show. But,to me, what they brought was it’s a world where anything can happen, it’s just crazy and upside down. There’s god, there’s angels, there’s vampires, there’s cowboys. There’s the south of France, there’s cults, in a lot of ways it was liberating to come from – it’s been challenging in other ways, but coming from Breaking Bad, things were very clear, it’s people, it’s present day Albuquerque. All the rules are still like – you’re painting within numbers that are normal human behavior. But with Preacher you sort of have to make up your own rules about what’s possible. So that’s been sort of liberating. You can’t just be anything goes, because there always has to be limits so it doesn’t feel like children playing with finger paint, but it’s just been a very different experience than Breaking Bad. Liberating, just like “What if they do this? What if they go there? What if they just go to hell?” So, that’s fun.
Have you had any trouble, as far as the gore, with AMC, or are they pretty open to blow up however many people you want?
CATLIN: No, there’s a sequence that’s under discussion towards the very end that is very – that’s the only time there’s ever been anything that’s like, “Is there a way to maybe…?” But they’ve been great.
What is the sequence?
CATLIN: I can’t tell you, but it’s pretty fucked up. [laughs] But they’ve been really great. And the violence, there’s been very little… From the beginning, I’m sure people were like, “Well, I wish it were on HBO because you could do whatever you wanted and it would be so awesome,” but I’m telling you this is not Preacher TV, this is not Preacher for basic cable, it’s fuckin’ Preacher.
We’ve all seen the pilot and it’s great by a way, but it makes you wonder, how far can this go? In the books, Steve Dillon illustrates the arseface suicide, is that something that’s going to be shown in the show? Because that’s a very touchy subject.
CATLIN: Yeah, it is. Well, I won’t say specifically about that, but Garth really pushes the envelope in terms of those stories, and I will say we really did too. In terms of, there’s some silly violence and there’s some crazy perverse violence but there’s also some real violence and some real sin. It’s not just – to me, there’s all different kinds of violence in the show, there’s Cassidy in the plane and it’s sort of silly and playful, there’s jazz music, but then there’s Jesse’s going to break a guy’s arm just because.
That was great.
CATLIN: Because he wants to hear the sound. So, yeah, hopefully. We just have had very little… The sex will be [laughs] the sex is also a really fun challenge, too. It’s obviously a big part of Jesse and Tulip’s relationship, but it’s also a big part of the comedy. And that’s something that we’re really excited to play with.
How far does season 1 go in the timeline of Preacher?
CATLIN: Well, I won’t say exactly, but in terms of Jesse’s journey, we look at where he’s at, in one way that Season 1 is a prequel a little bit, which doesn’t mean that characters or situations or people obviously don’t appear until the end of the season. We push some stuff later and we bring some stuff earlier.
Can you at least tell us, and we can do it off the record, do we get Saint of Killers in Season 1?
CATLIN: I can’t tell you.
[laughs]
CATLIN: I can’t say. But I will say that we’re very much aware –
Of characters that are in this world that people want to see, right?
CATLIN: Right. And they’re going to see them. Yes.
Do you guys have it arched out for a certain amount of seasons?
CATLIN: No, we don’t. What’s so exciting about it too is you sort of know how it starts — well, now we know how it starts, because we started — and you sort of have a sense of how it’s going to end, but there are so many chapters in between that are these vignettes or chapters, different stories, they’re sort of seasons unto themselves. They feel like worlds unto themselves, whether it’s the Bayou or San Francisco or New York or any of these places we want to go or invent ourselves or transpose together. And also the way he plays with time, there’s ways of going back in time, so it’s a little different than Breaking Bad where he gets diagnosed with cancer, and you can flashback all you want but it’s a real line from A to B. There’s no time for dallying, and Preacher has all sorts of great opportunities for fucking around and going down the wrong road and stuff like that.
I have a very important question. How often will Cassidy be wearing his glasses?
CATLIN: How often will he be wearing his sunglasses?
Yeah. Trust me, that’s a point of contention with some of my nerd friends is that you saw him without his glasses.
He’s very upset about this.
CATLIN: Are you the friend?
[laughs] It’s me. When I went into the pilot I was like, “He’s not wearing his sunglasses,” and 10 minutes in, I was like, “Shut up.” And it was great, but I’m just curious. But I was talking to someone and they were saying that it’s very difficult to act when you can’t see someone’s eyes.
CATLIN: Well you can act all you want but you can’t understand what they’re feeling. You really do need to be able to see the actor’s eyes. It’s sort of a reveal in Preacher – and then his eyes are all jacked up like that. I think it would be hard to really connect in the way you would need to over time with him, but he’s going to have his sunglasses on plenty. But there’s something about a guy that’s always in his sunglasses that, I don’t know, it’s how we communicate with other people, we read their is the eyes. After a while, we just thought that it would a ceiling or a wall to Cassidy. But yeah, I hear you. Get over it.
Jumping back to the timeline a little bit, the pilot takes its time to luxuriate, it doesn’t take off on the action right away. Do you guys feel pressure knowing that fans are going to want to get places and how much do you feel comfortable just really slow rolling it?
CATLIN: That was sort of what I was talking about when I said that I first read it and didn’t think we could do it as a tv show, because it starts like a bat out of hell and it doesn’t really slow down. So, it’s just, the pace of it, the narrative is just not a television pace. You can’t tell a story like that. It’s not even just that you couldn’t afford it, you just can’t just do people driving from one town to the next to the next to the next, because of the production of it, but it’s also going to tell a story, if it’s crazy 100 MPH all the time, it could saturate. But I feel like once we figured out how great and crazy and perverse the world of Preacher could be, in a location, in one place and let the trouble come to them in certain ways. I don’t feel like we’re vamping or anything like that. By the end of this season we’ve only just scratched the surface of the stories that we can get to. But I don’t feel like we’re playing it out. There’s a bunch of stuff in Season 1. I don’t think that people at the end of Season 1, people won’t be like, “Well, they sort of didn’t have anything to do there so they sort of like, it was kind of like My Dinner with Andre.” There’s plenty of stuff that happens in our slow moving Season 1.
Well even in the pilot it was slower moving than the comics but there was a ton that happens.
CATLIN: Yeah.
Are you ready for the protests? I mean like, One Million Moms protesting Lucifer on Fox. Like, nothing compared to this. God’s a deadbeat that leaves heaven. Are you ready?
CATLIN: I tell my wife, that if we do this right, our lives won’t be worth a nickel. They’re going to come for us. Between the comic book people and the religious right, yeah, Tom Cruise, yeah. I don’t know if anything, I mean with politics, the political year, anything can happen like that where people get their hands on it and are just like, “Oh, they got the pothead Canadians and the guy from Massachusetts kicking the shit out of religion.” But it’s really not – the show is really crazy, it doesn’t pull any punches or anything like that, but I wouldn’t say it’s anti [religious] — it’s sort of anti everything, in a lot of ways. It’s not pro-atheism, let’s put it that way. It sort of just takes on anything and everything and in a way that I feel is fun. But not socially irresponsible. It takes on these big institutions.
But, again, Jesse is this, he’s a preacher, he believes in god, he’s a very devout man in a way. His father was a preacher, so he’s steeped in religion and knows the bible backwards and forwards. And it wouldn’t be a very interesting lead character if we were just writing him as a dick or an idiot or a sucker. It’s our job and Dominic’s job and everyone’s job to absolutely make the argument for the necessity of believing in god. Because that’s certainly where he starts. I don’t think anyone’s interested in a Hollywood takedown of religious people, you know? It’s just too easy. I think Christian people, young Christian people – there are a bunch of Christian people that aren’t even going to look at it, they’re going to throw their television out of a window, but I think there’s going to be a lot of Christian people that are going to love this show. We have a Jesuit priest on our writing staff, we have a Christian, both her parents were ministers in west Texas. I think there’s a tendency to think it’s a huge monolith, especially with younger Christians, and I think they’re going to dig it because to have somebody like Jesse Custer as a guy who’s trying to get answers from god, who’s pissed off, I think it’s pretty universal. I think people are really going to dig it.
Some of the humor in the comic, and even some of the menace and threat, now could be viewed as homophobic. And even Garth Ennis himself has said that he was in a different place when he wrote a lot of the material in the ’90s. How do you approach the fact that “getting buggered” is a common threat in the book or a common joke?
CATLIN: Yeah. Oh god, Seth and Evan were saying movies they wrote five or six years ago are homophobic now, the sense of what’s appropriate has really changed a lot in the last 15 years. Yeah, we’re not going to be homophobic. But we may have a character that’s super homophobic. But he better watch his ass because he’s going to get in trouble, we’re going to fuck him up. [laughs] There’s going to be all sorts of people like that. But I mean, it’s a 20-year-old comic and there’s a few things that like you said, Garth said are a little dated. And we’re not going to, it’s not like there has to be buggery! We’ll update it. We’ll make it offensive but in brand new ways.
Kind of piggy backing off that. Tulip’s character in the book is white. There’s a lot of themes of racism and racist characters in the book. How will that play into the different race of Tulip onscreen, or will it?
CATLIN: Well, it has to. She’s black, she’s living in west Texas and it will come up when it comes up. I don’t think she’s a very political animal, I don’t think she thinks of herself as an African-American. I think there’s all sorts of great stories that are going to come up about that. We love that there’s, you know, I don’t think we cast her as black because, “Well, it’s time to really roll up our sleeves and get to the issues.” To us, we just like “He’s a vampire, Jesse’s Jesse — he’s a fuckin’ mess, she’s black and she’s a mess,” and It’s a big ugly pairing and we love it. They don’t really fit together which is why they fit together so great. In their own way, they’re all sort of outcasts. But it wasn’t a mandate she be African-American. She’s not even American. We haven’t cast any American actors in the show, really.
Everybody has the opposite accent than you would expect.
CATLIN: He’s British, she’s Irish-Ethiopian, Joe is English. And we’ve got like three other English people on the show. I don’t know what happened.
http://collider.com/preacher-amc-sam-catlin-interview/
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