Link: http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/102138-exclusive-joe-carnahan-on-taskmaster-and-preacher

It seems that lately all we do on this blog is talk about movie adaptations of comic books, who's in those movies and how much they're goin to suck/rule/destroy my world view. I do love that comic books are being taken a lot more seriously and it's a pleasure to see some of my favourites up on the big screen in amazing technicolour especially when it's down well. The thing is, I also feel that some things need to be left well alone, some stories need to kept pure without being seen through Hollwood-o-Vision and in my opinion Garth Ennis' Preacher is at the top of that list.

First it was going to be movie directed by Rachel Talalay (Tank Girl), then it switched to a HBO tv show, then back to movie this time with Sam Mendez (American Beauty) but that proved fruitless so now A-Team director Joe Carnahan has thrown his hat into the Preacher ring via an interview with Superherohype:

"And the other thing I'm really keen on or interested in is 'Preacher' because I'm a big Garth Ennis fan and I love that series and that's out there, and that might be something… I really love that. You gotta do the Allfather (D'Aronique) and all that crazy sh*t and I haven't seen a script and I don't know what it is, but yeah, we'll see. Who knows?"

So there you go, not exactly 100% locked in or anything but Carnahan's comments are enough to give us an excuse to talk about Preacher and why I'm some bloody precious about it. To sum up Preacher is very difficult (for you noobs check out ol' faithful, so much happens and we take so many sidetracks that meander through Ennis' fucked up view of the world and that's kind of the point. Preacher is more than the sum of it's parts but to leave bits out which you'd inevitably have to do with a movie adaptation would in my mind b detremental to the story as a whole. Which is also why I think out of all the possible versions that have been bandied about, the TV show was the best and most viable possibilty. Only a TV show could give the story the time and development it deserves, of course it's have to be HBO as there's some pretty messed up stuff in there.

Follow up:

I know that even if they do make a movie the book is still out there and a movie will never change that but I do have a good reason for not wanting to see some half arsed version, I swear. I can't deal with all those idiots out there talking about a story that means so much to me without really getting it. Being the resident geek in most circles, people really like to come and give me their opinion on comic book adaptations which usually I welcome and enjoy but every now and then you get Mr Big Balls who's read Empire once and tries to school me on something I know intimately. If that happens with Preacher I may need to go medievil on some fool. I'm not usually so negative so I may live to regret this post when the Preacher movie becomes the new benchmark in how-to-do-a-comic-adaptation but please just let my Preacher go.