Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are teaming up with Sony Pictures Television and AMC to adapt comic book series Preacher for TV.
Deadline reports that Rogen and Golberg, who previous teamed up for This Is the End, will write and executive produce the series. Breaking Bad's Sam Catlin is also on board to executive produce and be showrunner.
Neal Moritz and Vivian Cannon from Original Films' will also serve as executive producers for the adaptation of the controversial '90s comic.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Preacher is based off of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's comic done with Vertigo.
The show will follow Rev. Jesse Custer who decides to track down God after he abandoned Heaven. The Texas preacher teams up with his alcoholic vampire ex-girlfriend to track down God and get him to answer for his dereliction. Following Custer is an immortal killer known as the Saint of Killers who is looking to kill the preacher.
AMC won the rights for the heavily bidded series, which will look to hit the small screen for the first time after a previous deal with HBO fell through back in 2008, with the show in another group's hands. HBO decided to pass after initially being interested because it was supposedly "too dark and too violent and too controversial," according to Mark Steven Johnson, who was involved the last time.
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