Watch the first trailer for AMC’s ‘Preacher’ adaptation

Ask anyone who reads a lot of comics about their favourite titles and chances are Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s Preacher will appear in there somewhere. It’s understandable then that there’s been more than a little excitement about Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and Sam Catlin’s TV adaption.

Starring Dominic Cooper as Jesse Custer (in yet another example of a British actor playing a protagonist from the American South), the series will flight on AMC. The network is no stranger to comic book adaptations and is also home to The Walking Dead.

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As is the case with its zombie-driven stable-mate, Preacher the TV series looks set to deviate a little from its source material. That said, it doesn’t look like production costs have been shirked, meaning that we’ll get the full intensity of Custer’s literal search for God.