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Preacher - AMC

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Garf

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Naturally seeing some heat over here in the UK. Pickings is slim around these parts and the EU. Would not be surprised to see this hit the $160 range in a while if the machine keeps getting fed by online reports.

 

Watch Count: 29 watchers

Bids: 16

vertigo preacher number 1 garth ennis

Current Bid/Price (GBP): £ 29.00 - $46.73

Time Left: 2d 2h 2m 6s

 

Watch Count: 16 watchers

Bids: 8

Preacher # 1(Vertigo Comics)

Current Bid/Price (GBP): £ 17.00 - $27.39

Time Left: 1d 1h 13m 9s

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I am going to sit this one out. Never cared for the book. All root for it of course, but its got a long path just like the others do.

 

I think Mschimdt has been buying those previews for several years he oughta do well from this.

 

 

Ok. That's it! Buying all Preachers!

 

Ennis messed up 2 copies of Previews recently. :(

But the #1 is the book to own. :)

 

The Golden Book with the cassette tape is the one to own on this!

Preacher: Cast Into Damnation

 

 

lol

 

Only for the 1st Harley Quinn. :gossip:

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This time shall be different...

 

Film adaptation

 

Garth Ennis, feeling Preacher would translate perfectly as a film, sold the film rights to Electric Entertainment. Rachel Talalay was hired to direct, with Ennis writing the -script. Rupert Harvey and Tom Astor were set as producers. By May 1998, Ennis completed three drafts of the -script, based largely on the Gone to Texas story arc.[2] The filmmakers found it difficult financing Preacher because investors found the idea religiously controversial. Ennis approached Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier to help finance the film under their View Askew Productions banner. Ennis, Smith and Mosier pitched Preacher to Bob Weinstein at Miramax Films.[3]

 

Weinstein was confused by the characterization of Jesse Custer. Miramax also did not want to share the box office gross with Electric Entertainment, ultimately dropping the pitch. By May 2000, Smith and Mosier were still attached to produce with Talalay directing, but Smith did not know the status of Preacher, feeling it would languish in development hell.[3] By then, Storm Entertainment, a UK-based production company known for their work on independent films, joined the production with Electric Entertainment.[2] In September 2001, the two companies announced Preacher had been greenlighted to commence pre-production, with filming to begin in November and Talaly still directing Ennis' -script.[4] The production and start dates were pushed back because of financial issues[5] of the $25 million projected budget.[6]

 

James Marsden was cast in the lead role as Jesse Custer sometime in 2002. He explained, "It was something I never knew anything about, but once I got my hands on the comic books, I was blown away by it."[5] In a March 2004 interview, Marsden said the filmmakers were hoping for filming to start the following August.[7] With the full-length film adaptation eventually abandoned with budgetary concerns,[5] HBO announced in November 2006 that they commissioned Mark Steven Johnson and Howard Deutch to produce a television pilot. Johnson was to write with Deutch directing.[8] Impressed with Johnson's pilot -script, HBO had him write the series bible for the first season.[9] Johnson originally planned "to turn each comic book issue into a single episode" on a shot-for-shot basis. "I gave [HBO] the comics, and I said, 'Every issue is an hour'. Garth Ennis said 'You don't have to be so beholden to the comic'. And I'm like, 'No, no, no. It's got to be like the comic'."[10]

 

Johnson also wanted to make sure that one-shots were included as well.[11] Johnson changed his position, citing new storylines conceived by Ennis. "Well, there would be nothing new to add if we did that, so Garth [Ennis] and I have been creating new stories for the series," he said. "I love the book so much and I was telling Garth that he has to make the stories we are coming up with as comics because I want to see them."[9] By August 2008, new studio executives at HBO decided to abandon the idea, finding it too stylistically dark and religiously controversial.[12] Columbia Pictures then purchased the film rights in October 2008 with Sam Mendes directing. Neal H. Moritz and Jason Netter are producing the film. The previous scripts written by Ennis will not be used.[6]

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This time shall be different...

 

Film adaptation

 

Garth Ennis, feeling Preacher would translate perfectly as a film, sold the film rights to Electric Entertainment. Rachel Talalay was hired to direct, with Ennis writing the -script. Rupert Harvey and Tom Astor were set as producers. By May 1998, Ennis completed three drafts of the -script, based largely on the Gone to Texas story arc.[2] The filmmakers found it difficult financing Preacher because investors found the idea religiously controversial. Ennis approached Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier to help finance the film under their View Askew Productions banner. Ennis, Smith and Mosier pitched Preacher to Bob Weinstein at Miramax Films.[3]

 

Weinstein was confused by the characterization of Jesse Custer. Miramax also did not want to share the box office gross with Electric Entertainment, ultimately dropping the pitch. By May 2000, Smith and Mosier were still attached to produce with Talalay directing, but Smith did not know the status of Preacher, feeling it would languish in development hell.[3] By then, Storm Entertainment, a UK-based production company known for their work on independent films, joined the production with Electric Entertainment.[2] In September 2001, the two companies announced Preacher had been greenlighted to commence pre-production, with filming to begin in November and Talaly still directing Ennis' -script.[4] The production and start dates were pushed back because of financial issues[5] of the $25 million projected budget.[6]

 

James Marsden was cast in the lead role as Jesse Custer sometime in 2002. He explained, "It was something I never knew anything about, but once I got my hands on the comic books, I was blown away by it."[5] In a March 2004 interview, Marsden said the filmmakers were hoping for filming to start the following August.[7] With the full-length film adaptation eventually abandoned with budgetary concerns,[5] HBO announced in November 2006 that they commissioned Mark Steven Johnson and Howard Deutch to produce a television pilot. Johnson was to write with Deutch directing.[8] Impressed with Johnson's pilot -script, HBO had him write the series bible for the first season.[9] Johnson originally planned "to turn each comic book issue into a single episode" on a shot-for-shot basis. "I gave [HBO] the comics, and I said, 'Every issue is an hour'. Garth Ennis said 'You don't have to be so beholden to the comic'. And I'm like, 'No, no, no. It's got to be like the comic'."[10]

 

Johnson also wanted to make sure that one-shots were included as well.[11] Johnson changed his position, citing new storylines conceived by Ennis. "Well, there would be nothing new to add if we did that, so Garth [Ennis] and I have been creating new stories for the series," he said. "I love the book so much and I was telling Garth that he has to make the stories we are coming up with as comics because I want to see them."[9] By August 2008, new studio executives at HBO decided to abandon the idea, finding it too stylistically dark and religiously controversial.[12] Columbia Pictures then purchased the film rights in October 2008 with Sam Mendes directing. Neal H. Moritz and Jason Netter are producing the film. The previous scripts written by Ennis will not be used.[6]

 

Hush up and listen to the monies!

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This time shall be different...

 

Film adaptation

 

Garth Ennis, feeling Preacher would translate perfectly as a film, sold the film rights to Electric Entertainment. Rachel Talalay was hired to direct, with Ennis writing the -script. Rupert Harvey and Tom Astor were set as producers. By May 1998, Ennis completed three drafts of the -script, based largely on the Gone to Texas story arc.[2] The filmmakers found it difficult financing Preacher because investors found the idea religiously controversial. Ennis approached Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier to help finance the film under their View Askew Productions banner. Ennis, Smith and Mosier pitched Preacher to Bob Weinstein at Miramax Films.[3]

 

Weinstein was confused by the characterization of Jesse Custer. Miramax also did not want to share the box office gross with Electric Entertainment, ultimately dropping the pitch. By May 2000, Smith and Mosier were still attached to produce with Talalay directing, but Smith did not know the status of Preacher, feeling it would languish in development hell.[3] By then, Storm Entertainment, a UK-based production company known for their work on independent films, joined the production with Electric Entertainment.[2] In September 2001, the two companies announced Preacher had been greenlighted to commence pre-production, with filming to begin in November and Talaly still directing Ennis' -script.[4] The production and start dates were pushed back because of financial issues[5] of the $25 million projected budget.[6]

 

James Marsden was cast in the lead role as Jesse Custer sometime in 2002. He explained, "It was something I never knew anything about, but once I got my hands on the comic books, I was blown away by it."[5] In a March 2004 interview, Marsden said the filmmakers were hoping for filming to start the following August.[7] With the full-length film adaptation eventually abandoned with budgetary concerns,[5] HBO announced in November 2006 that they commissioned Mark Steven Johnson and Howard Deutch to produce a television pilot. Johnson was to write with Deutch directing.[8] Impressed with Johnson's pilot -script, HBO had him write the series bible for the first season.[9] Johnson originally planned "to turn each comic book issue into a single episode" on a shot-for-shot basis. "I gave [HBO] the comics, and I said, 'Every issue is an hour'. Garth Ennis said 'You don't have to be so beholden to the comic'. And I'm like, 'No, no, no. It's got to be like the comic'."[10]

 

Johnson also wanted to make sure that one-shots were included as well.[11] Johnson changed his position, citing new storylines conceived by Ennis. "Well, there would be nothing new to add if we did that, so Garth [Ennis] and I have been creating new stories for the series," he said. "I love the book so much and I was telling Garth that he has to make the stories we are coming up with as comics because I want to see them."[9] By August 2008, new studio executives at HBO decided to abandon the idea, finding it too stylistically dark and religiously controversial.[12] Columbia Pictures then purchased the film rights in October 2008 with Sam Mendes directing. Neal H. Moritz and Jason Netter are producing the film. The previous scripts written by Ennis will not be used.[6]

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Hole in the wall shop in town has issues 11 - 16 in stock in vf -nm for 3 bux each... Any I those key issues?

 

Does Preacher have "key issues"? I never think of self contained series that run for 50 - 80 issues as having any except issue #1 and then possibly #2 and #3 (at substantially less monetary value).

 

Jesse, Tulip, Cassidy and Saint of Killers all appear in the 1st issue. I think out of the main cast Arseface is the only one not to show up until #2. That's not to say that there aren't any other really enjoyable characters. Anything else would smack of being manipulated into being a key IMHO... The only other similar series that springs to mind with a key after #1-3 is Sandman #8, but only because Death is a particularly popular character that has been well received by comicbook culture in general.

 

edit: Herr Starr is probably the only other one that really endures for me, Ennis made me grin a lot at this character. As mentioned I still find the others well crafted and enjoyable.

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