‘Preacher’ Puts Out Fast, Bloody Teaser Ahead of Sunday Trailer
In the same week we got the most family friendly comic book adaption to TV in decades with Supergirl, we now have the first few seconds of footage from what will be the absolutely least family friendly comic book show to date — Garth Ennis’ Preacher.
AMC released a short teaser for a trailer that is supposed to premier in this Sunday’s (Nov. 1) 90-minute episode of The Walking Dead. Not that anyone needed any more reason to watch that episode, to find out if (SPOILER REDACTED). As you can see in the feature photo above, the title character Jesse Custer is played by Dominic Cooper, well known to the nerd community as the younger Howard Stark in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
If you are a fan of Garth Ennis’ outstandingly profane, violent, blasphemous and scatological comic books, then you are as excited as I am about this series. Frankly, there is no way even AMC could make Preacher as perfectly wrong as the comic book is (this is the man who created the series Crossed, after all), but if it retains the shock of The Walking Dead and the unexpected storytelling of Breaking Bad (also an AMC property) I will be happy. It already retains the character Arseface, at least according to IMDB.com.
One character missing from the teaser (as far as I can tell with limited frame-by-frame viewing) is Tulip O’Hare, the love interest of the title character Jesse Custer. She is in the show, and will be played by Ruth Negga, who also plays Raina in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Maybe she will be in the larger trailer when it airs Sunday. Also missing is the The Saint of Killers, again as far as I can tell.
Prominent in it, however, is Cassidy, the troublesome Irish punk alcoholic vampire. I think the very quick flash scene where something is bloodily ripping apart a congregation of African Americans is the work of Cassidy. But the scene where he is sitting with a bottle of Jack Daniels and watching his hand burn in direct sunlight is definitely him.
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg created the series for AMC, with both sharing writing credits for the first episode and Goldberg directing. So you can expect it to be as profane and disturbing as AMC will let them get away with. Let’s hope that the pair create something more like The End than their one comic book collaboration to date, The Green Hornet.
