Columbia Pictures has corned the owners of a popular comic from the 90s to secure the rights for a film. That comic was Preacher.
I never read the book, so fortunately ComingSoon.net describes it for us:
Created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, “Preacher,” which ran from 1995-2000, told the story of a down-and-out Texas preacher possessed by Genesis, a supernatural entity conceived by the unnatural coupling of an angel and a demon.
Given immense powers, the preacher teamed with an old girlfriend and a hard-drinking Irish vampire and set out on a journey across America to find God — who apparently had abandoned his duties in heaven — and hold him accountable for his negligence.
So a vampire, a Preacher possessed by an angel/devil thing, and some girl want to find God and give him what for? Yeah, now I remember why I never read this book.
I can deal with supernatural stuff. I even like it a great deal, but when your story comes down to “We are hunting the most powerful entity in all creation” it loses credibility. I don’t want to get all theological or anything, but if they were hunting fallen angels or kicking rogue demon ass, then I might buy in. But their mission is to go give God a shin kickin?
Well it apparently is going to be made into a movie. I don’t mind all these stories being drug up from comics. I think its a great resource for storytelling, but they might just be grabbing at anything now.
I think the new way to get a script read in Hollywood is to make it a comic book.
