Genesis is an all-powerful creature, the offspring of an angel and a demon (neither of whom are Phil Collins). It comes to earth and finds a home within the soul of Jesse Custer, a broken yet noble Texas preacher with a troubled past. Jesse soon finds himself dealing with a dead congregation, an angry sheriff's department, and the ever-present Saint of Killers. He also finds himself endowed with the word of God: if he says it, you do it. Fans can only hope he doesn't have to be around to tell Sony to do their new AMC series right. The Garth Ennis/Steve Dillon property has been in development since the nineties, originally as a film. Names as diverse as Rachel Talalay (Freddy's Dead, Ghost in the Machine, Tank Girl) and Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Skyfall, Tank Girl 2) were attached to direct. Everyone from Miramax to HBO has passed on the property due to its religious content. You can practically hear the executives now: "Does he have to be a preacher? Why not a vacuum cleaner salesman? Vacuum cleaner salesmen are hot right now." If it's done right, it will be a television masterpiece, and cause a slight uptick in Texan children named Jesse Custer. If it isn't, at least we'll still have the comic. As the world's biggest Preacher fan, I only have one request. Set the show during the time the comic was released. Make it a nineties period piece, haircuts and all. For some reason, the apocalypse just goes better with mullets.
Check out "The Champ" by my alter ego, Greg Forrest, in Heater #12, at http://fictionmagazines.com.
I used to do a mean Glenn Danzig impression. Now I just hang around and co-host The Workprint podcast at http://southboundcinema.com/.
