When Preacher premieres on Sunday, the show's creators want it to feel different from anything you've seen before.
Preacher tells the story of a man named Jesse Custer who is grappling with trying to be a good preacher and live up to his father's shadow. When something happens to him that affects his sway over his congregation -- and all people -- his struggle becomes a bit more complicated.
Adapted from the Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon comic book series, Preacher is going to pick up earlier than when Volume 1 begins. But the show, developed for AMC by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and Sam Catlin, still stays close to its roots.
"We don’t have to try that hard
because just turning Preacher into a TV show makes it unlike anything that’s been on TV before," Catlin told IGN. "Just to bring that world to life; the violence and the perversity and the comedy and the love story and all the different genres — crime drama, western drama, vampires — it’s just built in crazy. I’ve never seen anything like it, on TV or in a movie or pretty much anywhere."
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Preacher tells the story of a man named Jesse Custer who is grappling with trying to be a good preacher and live up to his father's shadow. When something happens to him that affects his sway over his congregation -- and all people -- his struggle becomes a bit more complicated.
Adapted from the Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon comic book series, Preacher is going to pick up earlier than when Volume 1 begins. But the show, developed for AMC by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and Sam Catlin, still stays close to its roots.
"We don’t have to try that hard
because just turning Preacher into a TV show makes it unlike anything that’s been on TV before," Catlin told IGN. "Just to bring that world to life; the violence and the perversity and the comedy and the love story and all the different genres — crime drama, western drama, vampires — it’s just built in crazy. I’ve never seen anything like it, on TV or in a movie or pretty much anywhere."
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