Preacher, based on the Vertigo comic of the same name, returns to AMC on June 25th, and the network has issued four new posters to herald that return.
The new season will see series regulars Dominic Cooper, Ruth Negga and Joseph Gilgun joined by a number of new cast members. Although their roles haven't been announced yet, new to the series are Game Of Thrones' Noah Taylor, Fargo and Better Call Saul's Julie Ann Emergy, Dear White People's Malcolm Barrett, Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Pip Torrens and 13 Reasons Why's Justin Prentice.
Created by Garth Ennis, Preacher focuses on a Texas (you got it) preacher named Jesse Custer (Cooper), who finds his body serving as the host for an entity known as Genesis that endows him with the ability to make people obey him. This unique power intrigues a pair of angels named Fiore and DeBlanc, and, as a result, Jesse finds himself joining up with his ex-girlfriend, Tulip (Negga); and an Irish vampire named Cassidy (Gilgun). As AMC notes, the trio are "thrust into a crazy world populated by a cast of characters from Heaven, Hell and everywhere in between."
Reflecting on the show's power, at last year's Comic-Con Cooper offered, "Raising the questions rather than having unwavering opinions on religion is the show's key, and that's why it's been so incredibly well received from the religious world. No one's seemed to have trouble with it, to our surprise. So raising these questions in this incredibly tough time we are currently living through in the world... it's chaos that we are living through. So people are questioning their faith and just what on Earth is going on in the world."
Negga added, "What I love about our show is that it encourages you to challenge the way you think about the nature of good and evil. You know, it's made me think about my faith, God, and having private conversations with myself about the world."
Quipped Gilgun in response, "It hasn't made me question faith, mate. I still think it is trouble."