Seth Rogen Wants Duncan Jones To Direct Some ‘Preacher,’ Director Agrees…On Twitter
Twitter can be a magical place. A place where connections are made in front of your eyes. Usually in Hollywood, when a producer wants to hire a director, that person has to go through an agent, who then assesses the opportunity, then contacts the manager who discusses it with the director and a decision is made.
Or, on Twitter, you just ask and they say yes.
Friday evening,Ain’t It Cool News' Eric Vespe tweeted that he hopesSeth RogenandEvan Goldbergtry to cast Kurt Russell as the Saint of Killers in their AMC adaptation of the popular comic book,Preacher. DirectorDuncan Jones, who has been a little out of the loop over the past year makingsome tiny video game movie,asked Vespe about the project. Then Rogen himself jumped in and asked if Jones would direct. Will this actually happen? Who knows. But it’s a great Twitter conversation to read and evenRian Johnsongot int he mix. Check it out below.
Here’s how it started, with Vespe, then Jones then this:
@ManMadeMoon@EricVespe@evandgoldbergTV show for AMC. Wanna direct some episodes? (I should note that we haven’t finished a pilot script)
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen)June 02, 2025
Jones then joked a bit about it:
Before adding this:
And Rogen’s response:
@ManMadeMoon@EricVespe@evandgoldbergsold!!!
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen)June 18, 2025
Oh, and just for fun, a fan suggested thatStar Wars Episode VIIIdirectorRian Johnsonget in the mix and here’s what happened with that:
Rogen and Goldberg seemed to like the idea:
@evandgoldberg@rianjohnson@EricVespe@ThatJoeMeyers@ManMadeMoonwe can set an episode on the millennium falcon if it makes it easier.
Then this:
Look, will any of this happen? Anything is possible. And either way it’s incredibly fun and amazing how these talented people use Twitter, actually check Twitter, and then can interact with each other right in front of our eyes.
Rogen also mentioned in this series of tweets that he and Goldberg have yet to finish the pilot script, so don’t expect this to happen for quite some time. Still, Jones’Warcraftmovie doesn’t hit until 2016 and Johnson’sStar Warsmovie probably doesn’t hit until 2017 so a few weeks on AMC’sPreacherin 2015 seems pretty doable, no?
