August
26 HBO kills "Preacher," says Sue Naegle rejected it as "too dark"

Producer Mark Steven Johnson told Rob Allstetter that the project was the point of budgeting when "the new head of HBO felt it was just too dark and too violent and too controversial." Based on the Garth Ennis comic, "Preacher" is the story of a small-town preacher who's been possessed by a supernatural creature composed of equal parts pure good and evil. As a result, the preacher may have more power than God. HBO bought the property in November 2006; Johnson says he's "heard someone is in the process of getting the rights to turn it into a feature film. I hope that happens." [Comics Continuum]