Although still being youngsters to the whole feature film business, meaning writing, producing and directing, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg have already left their mark in the film business and pop culture with the 2007 Superbad, the 2008 Pineapple Express and last year’s This Is the End, which was the directorial debut for both of them.
While attending SXSW in support
of Rogen latest movie, Neighbors, Goldberg took some time to speak to Collider,
about the upcoming adaptation of the comic book Preacher into a series and the
video game project Console Wars.
About Preacher, Goldberg said
that they are intended on sticking with the source material, although some
things might need to get changed.
“We just had a meeting with AMC
and Garth Ennis, who’s the writer, and we all kind of seemed to agree that
we’re gonna stay as true to the comic as we can. We need to change some stuff but we’re not
gonna change much, I hope. We’re just
gonna do a little more of the preamble instead of doing flashbacks and
restructure how we dole out the information a little, but we’re gonna [do the]
same characters, same story, same ending.
We’re gonna try to stick to Preacher as best we can. We’re making it with Sam Catlin who did
Breaking Bad, and so he might tell me I’m wrong about all of this and that the
real way to do it is different because he’s much smarter and better at all this
than I am. But we’re gonna try to stick
to what it is as best we can.”
For years studios have been
trying to adapted Ennis’ Preacher to feature film, but Goldberg says that a tv
series is the best way to tell this story.
“We’re beyond excited, we’ve
tried to make it for 10 years. The big
difference is everyone else tried to make it a movie and it shouldn’t be a
movie. It should be an AMC show, that’s
the proper way for it to get done… It’s too big; you can’t do that in a
movie. It’s just too big. You’ve gotta learn the characters, it’s all
about a love triangle and you need to grow with them and see the woman swayed
one way or the other, and in a movie you just can’t accomplish all that.”
Recently it was announced that
Rogen and Goldberg were going to write and direct an adaptation of Blake Harris’
upcoming book Console Wars, which chronicles the 1990’s feud between two of the
biggest names in gamming consoles, Sega and Nintendo.
Goldberg said that the project is
still a long ways a way, but that once they finish the initial work on Preacher
they would start working on it.
“The dudes wrote a book and we’re
about to sit down and read it. The dudes
did a cut of their documentary on it and we liked it and there’s gonna be some
more work done on that, and then we’re gonna sit down and right it. We haven’t really dug into that one yet,
we’re kind of focused on our Preacher project a little right now, and then
we’re gonna tackle Console Wars once we get the outline for Preacher done.”
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