Preacher TV Series: Everything You Need To Know

Thank absent God, Arse-Face will be appearing!

By Tom Baker /

For a while it seemed like it would take nothing short of a miracle, or else an incredibly bloody divine intervention, to get Preacher adapted to live action. Whilst not quite on the level of crossover, mainstream hits as Watchmen, Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon€™s comic series is a cult classic, a foul-mouthed slice of Southern Gothic read by people who don€™t usually go near funnybooks. It helped that Preacher was a comic book €œfor adults€ in all ways. It explored themes of belief, religion, race and family in the contemporary United States. It also had a lot of swearing, gory deaths, disturbing inbred rednecks and occasional sexy bits. Preacher is Ennis and Dillon€™s masterwork, and amongst the best DC€™s mature readers Vertigo line published. Running from 1995 to 2000, Preacher has been considered for some form of adaptation - on either the big or small screen - almost since it started, with Ennis himself shopping around what he thought was a bankable high concept premise. Despite several promising attempts, however, they all turned out to be false starts. Until now, that is. Early last year a pilot was ordered for a TV adaptation at last, with a full first season confirmed soon after. The show is now, finally, filming, with information slowly coming out about how close it sticks to the source material, who€™s playing who, and whether Arse-Face will appear. Here€™s everything we know about Preacher so far...