AMC's Preacher.
AMC's PREACHER
- After lengthy negotiations, Dominic Cooper (Agent Carter) has signed on to play the lead role on the drama pilot written by Sam Catlin. He will play Jesse Custer, the quintessential Man With a Past who returned to his small Texas hometown a little while back to be a preacher, like his daddy before him - who was killed before his eyes when he was 8. He's trying his best to connect with God and transmit some faith to his troubled congregation but they have come not to expect much from him. Despite the clerical collar, Jesse's actually a formidable fighter, a legacy from the violent, mysterious past he's trying to put behind him. But when he's pushed to the limit by a Civil War re-enacting redneck wife beater, Jesse loses control and beats him half to death. Shaken by his inability to "hear God" and leave behind his darker instincts, Jesse decides to leave the pulpit and town altogether - until a strange, miraculous intervention takes place and Jesse discovers a new purpose and a new power. A power that will shake the world and threaten Heaven itself.
