![]() ![]() The eponymous Sgt (real name Frank) is a member of the US military who has had a vast collection of comic book adventures – he has fought in Europe, Japan and Africa, picking up plenty of readers in the process. He primarily exists outside the main DC universe though, so we’re going to chuck him in here. Sgt Rock is a DC property that dates back to 1959. Our fingers remain firmly crossed that this time Preacher will actually make it all the way through production. Seth Rogen is attached to produce (but not star in) a TV version, which is said to be fully scripted, picked-up by AMC and rumoured to hit our telly boxes in 2015. “It was because I couldn’t really make it work, I couldn’t find a way of defining what it was onscreen.” “It wasn’t just that I sort of walked away from it because they wouldn’t pay for it or anything like that,” he added. “I could not find a way of making Preacher-tonally it’s a very difficult thing to make work, and there’s a reason why it’s struggled so much,” Mendes told Collider recently. Most recently (and arguably most promisingly), the latest man to attempt bringing Preacher to the big screen was none other than American Beauty director and Bond rejuvenator Sam Mendes, in whose hands we feel this could have become a proper cinematic treat, with his penchant for action and emotion potentially resulting in a supernatural version of Calvary. Next, Daredevil and Ghost Rider script-writer Mark Steven Johnson was working on a HBO series which would follow the comics very closely, before the network gave up on the idea for being too dark and potentially religiously offensive. His journey (teamed up with his other half and a drunken Irish vampire) pits them against foes both real and mystical, with his quest for vengeance providing plenty of action. The big cloud-dwelling man with a beard went into earthly hiding when Genesis was born, and Jesse is hungry for answers. Jesse sets off to find God, and not in a figurative sense. This potentially cataclysmic combination of good and evil, combined with the conflicted rage of a pissed-off preacher is the central juxtaposition that makes Preacher so interesting. This creature is called Genesis, and it is the end product of a forbidden affair between an angel and a demon. ![]() ![]() It has a whiff of cinematic gold to it, blending realistic characters with supernatural trappings, and kicking off with an origin story to rival the big boys – Jesse Custer, a preacher in Texas, is inadvertently possessed by a creature so powerful it could rival God himself, in a freak event which both destroyed his church and killed all his parishioners. If you’re not familiar with Preacher, it’s a comic book series by Garth Ennis (who’s also worked on Punisher and Hitman) and artist Steven Dillon, which was published by DC’s riskier Vertigo imprint from 1995-2000. We’re going to start with one which we really would have loved to see – a Preacher movie, which has nearly happened twice on the big screen, and once on the little version. So, featuring monkeys, Quentin Tarantino and WWII heroes displaced to the near future, here’s our list of indie and obscure comic book properties that made it tragically close to the big screen… Preacher ![]()
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