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Rogen and Goldberg said as much during a recent conference call in which they primarily discussed Preacher season 3. When asked about The Boys finally coming to fruition with Supernatural creator Eric Kripke in place as showrunner and 10 Cloverfield Lane director Dan Trachtenberg on board to helm the pilot, Goldberg felt Preacher was responsible for paving the way for the new series. He said:
Rogen followed up those sentiments by alluding to the hurdle of getting Preacher made in the first place, much less readying for the start of the third season. Ultimately, though, getting this new series made came down to the pair drawing from their experiences on Preacher to garner a greenlight for The Boys.
“Without the success of Preacher I can’t imagine they ever would have considered it for a minute. Even though Preacher is by far the craziest most reality-bending, genre-bending thing, The Boys is much more grounded in reality but it is equally insane in its own unbelievably gritty, unforgiving analysis of like societal flaws through this very different story. Without any doubt, there’s no chance they would have even considered letting us do this, nor would they consider anyone doing it I would imagine without Preacher, because it just proved this crazy can happen.”
“I think mostly that’s what Preacher did: it kind had been dubbed unmakeable. And that was crazy to us because we couldn’t have had a more clear vision of how to it could be made. And a similar thing was happening with The Boys, where it was kind of handed off by a few different people who, by all means, should’ve been more suitable to make it than us, but for whatever reason they couldn’t and the whole time we were just sittin’ there like ‘We get this. We can do this. This is not that crazy to us.’ We understand how this world works and we partnered with Eric Kripke who really understands how the world works and Dan Trachtenberg made one of my favorite movies that has come out in a long time and so getting him to direct the first episode was just like thrilling, honestly. And we were just in Toronto watching them film it and I think they’re filming the second or third episode right now.”
