More Preacher Changes Discussed Including the Look of Arseface
Steve Barton
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We told you already about some changes being made to “Preacher” to bring it to the small screen, and today Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg elaborated on said changes to our friends over at Collider.
“It didn’t seem, at first, that we should do it that way,” said Goldberg regarding tweaking the storyline, etc, “and then we talked with Garth, and Garth very much encouraged us to make a lot of small changes and to make it a good show first and foremost. Our big thing is we want fans who love the comic to get everything they want but also make some new twists and turns.”
Rogen continued with regard to the character of Arseface: “There had been something online that existed of some test that someone had done that looked exactly like how it looked in the comic, and as soon as I saw that, I knew we should not try to make it look exactly how it looked in the comic and we should take some license and try to make it something maybe a little more… palatable, I guess might be the word. And we wanted the character to [be] sympathetic and ultimately, like, someone you really rooted for.”
In Ennis’ comic, Sheriff Root’s son, in an homage to Kurt Cobain, attempts to kill himself with a shotgun, but he survives. This character becomes known as Arseface and is played by Ian Colletti in the series. You can kind of see him in the image below along with an image of how the character appeared in the comic. You can tell just from the head structure that the design is clearly different.
In terms of the character’s look on the show…
“I mean, I think the starting place was finding Ian Colletti, the actor, because… first we had to know what his face looked like, what his body structure was and all that,” says Rogen, “and, then, kind of just figure out how to make it look realistic and, you know, have impact but not look cartoony in any way or silly… We want the show to be fun for regular people with not sick sensibilities. Put that on a poster.”
As we told you previously, AMC’s “Preacher” will premiere at the 2016 SXSW in advance of its mid-2016 broadcast debut. The show stars Dominic Cooper, Ruth Negga, Joseph Gilgun, Ian Colletti, W. Earl Brown, and Lucy Griffith.
“Preacher” is a supernatural, twisted, and darkly comedic drama that follows a West Texas preacher named Jesse Custer, who – along with his ex-girlfriend Tulip and an Irish vagabond named Cassidy – is thrust into a crazy world, much bigger than he is.
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