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.

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You like Star Wars yeah? You like the A-Team too? So this little mashup should be the ultimate good start to the week. Simple but effective. Didn't somebody already do this with Magnum P.I? Wasn't it a previous Something Silly?

Link: http://www.thecomicsshow.co.uk/

According to nearly everyone on the net Liam Neeson will be playing John "Hannibal" Smith in the new A-Team film and he could be accompanied by star of the recent release The Hangover's Bradley Cooper as the one and only Face. I enjoyed Neeson in the recent Taken which showed he's still got the chops to be a fine action star, no word on Murdock yet but he's probably being broken out of some non-descript mental asylum by B.A. as I type this.

In other news why not take a look at the new British International Comics Show (BICS)website with it's flashy redesign in anticipation of this year's show in October.