Preacher to HBO?

Word on the street, or, actually, the internet, is that Preacher may be making its way to HBO.

Moviehole.net reports: According to a scooper for Aint it Cool, the long-planned film version of comic fave “Preacher” – at one stage set to star James Marsden in the title role – is as dead as, well, it’s dead. OK? Spare me the thought of another analogy.

The good news? “Preacher” might be turning TV series. Even better news; it might be headed to HBO – home of, um, Jamie Lynn Sigler (reason enough to watch in my book).

Says the scooper, “I don't know good this information is, but I was at a comic convention in Dublin recently where Glenn Fabry was signing. I asked about the Preacher movie and he said that it wouldn't go ahead, that nobody wanted to do it. He then told me that days previous he had gotten a call from somebody from HBO looking for Garth Ennis' phone number. A few hours later he got a call from Garth saying that the producers from The Sopranos want to turn Preacher into a HBO TV series. There was no word on Garth's response to this”.

Preacher meets the Sopranos and HBO ... if you're going to adapt something like Preacher, that's the way to do it.