Garth Ennis Plans To Write Future Episodes
The Preacher television series has already diverged widely from its source material, a decision that has raised the ire of some fans, but for the most part has been embraced as one of the most positive choices made by the creative team. Goldberg credits Ennis himself with allowing the producers a certain amount of creative freedom with his characters.
“Garth kind of set us free by saying as long as we maintained the core characters’ emotional arcs and the damage that they have, that we could kind of run wild,” he said. “Which, if he hadn’t said, I would’ve been trepidatious the whole time and uncomfortable changing too much, but he told us to go for it.”
In fact, the changes Rogen and Goldberg have made to the original source material have left Ennis intrigued with where the journey might lead, and the prolific comic book writer hopes to have an opportunity to script some of those new adventures himself.
“A provision has been made for me to [write future episodes],” he told journalists at Comic-Con. “I do have this ongoing feeling that I should just sit back and leave them to it, because what they’re doing is so good. But yes, I would like to try my hand at it, eventually.”