AMC Orders A PREACHER Pilot

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I’ll be honest here. I’ve never taken the time to read Garth Ennis’s Preacher. I know I should. Everyone I know tells me so. But I haven’t really had a deadline when it comes to reading the controversial comic.

Now, I guess I do.

AMC, in an attempt to fill a growing void in its schedule now that Breaking Bad is over and Mad Men is ending, has decided to take an adaptation of Preacher to pilot.

Preacher has long been the subject of a possible adaptation, with HBO coming the closest to making it happen. Now it looks like AMC, broadcast cable’s response to HBO, will be the network to finally bring Preacher  to life.

Everything I know about Preacher already tells me that AMC, if they take an loyal adaptation to series, is in for a thumbing from religious fanatics. This is a book that apparently makes Bill Maher’s Religulous look subtle.

So what’s this Preacher about anyway? I don’t think my un-initiated brain could do a description of the series justice. So let me pass you over to Bad Ass Digest where Devin Faraci describes the plot and some of the super crazy characters you’ll encounter… if AMC does right by Ennis, anyway.