'Preacher' Showrunner Talks How 'Breaking Bad' Influenced Production on the New AMC Drama
Sam Catlin is writing and showrunning on the new upcoming AMC series, Preacher, and his resume itself is something to get excited about.
He comes with plenty of Breaking Bad experience under his belt, heading episodes such as Fly, and he's brought plenty of skills across with him. This series is going to very much feel like an AMC series, by the sounds of it.
"...What's been fun about this is no one's ever going to confuse it with Breaking Bad," Catlin said. "It’s a very different world, it’s different rules. With Breaking Bad, it was innovative in all these different ways, but it was very much ... "that’s present-day Albuquerque, and that’s a human being, and there are no vampires."
Catlin explains that the tone is the hardest part of the whole thing, finding a balance between darkness and humour, and he revealed plenty of discussions were had with names like Tarantino at the centre, creators capable of hitting that perfect balance.
The show starts small, and for good reason. It introduces audiences to Jesse Custer's corner of the world, to his little town, to familiarise fans. "We didn’t want it to be so over the top so soon that people would think they were on a bad mushroom trip.
In the writers room, Catlin runs it very much like Vince Gilligan did on Breaking Bad (and presumably does on Better Call Saul). He and six other writers hash out the story, one of them takes on the script for their allocated episode, and then that writer represents the team on set for that episode's production.
"So I’m trying to steal as much as possible from Breaking Bad." Preacher premieres May 22.
Source:The Verge
