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Thursday, June 7, 2007

TV Kevin Sorbo Is a Golden God.

Posted by Erik Henriksen on Thu, Jun 7 at 10:01 AM

Sometimes we get AWESOME press releases:

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Kevin Sorbo stars as The Preacher, a pastor who becomes a ruthless bounty hunter after losing his wife and child. Years later, he meets a former prostitute (Cynthia Watros from “LOST”) and her young daughter Amelia (Joey King, pictured). Their good nature may give him a chance at redemption. Hallmark Original Movie “Avenging Angel” airs Saturday, July 7 (9/8c).

Which reminds me: Back when I was in high school a bunch of friends and I worked at a movie theater. When Kull the Conqueror opened, my buddy Dave and I insisted on selling people tickets to Kull, even if they wanted to see something else. Because we knew—even then, way back in 1997—that the brilliant Kull was destined to become a classic, and these people would thank us. They did not then, and as of now, they still haven’t. But someday, they will. Someday. (Post-script: I was fired from the theater shortly thereafter for an unrelated incident involving Muppets In Space.)

Also, shit gets really badass here around the :40 second mark. But for some reason they left out the scene in which Sorbo/Kull conditions his mightily flowing locks, which is a shame.

Comments

Since this is a Hallmark movie I asume it has nothing to do with the graphic novel Preacher by Garth Ennis. I heard some talk a while ago about a movie adaptation for it, but nothing since. Do you know if it's in the works or what?

Mark Steven Johnson, the dude who did Ghost Rider and Daredevil, is currently working on developing Ennis' badass comic as an HBO series, last I heard. His idea was to adapt each issue as an episode. Which would be awesome, I think, if Mark Steven Johnson wasn't a total hack.

Many of his fans are really looking forward to this movie. Unfortunately our cable package doesn't carry Hallmark channel so I have asked a a friend to tape it for me.

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