This premise is positively dripping in cheese. The outline for Ordained contains a cheese quotient so high that if it were deep fried, it could form the basis of 75% of American cooking videos on YouTube.
Imagine, if you will, a story in which a priest is called upon to perform last rites at a hospital.
The dying patient confesses to being the head of the Irish Mafia and spills out all of his deepest, darkest secrets in his death bed confession.
The problem is, this patient then recovers and he needs to silence the priest, so he sends hitmen after him.
The complication? This priest is a ex-Navy SEAL who found his faith on the battlefield, so the Irish mafia are about taste the wrath of God.
See what I mean? So much cheese that the cows are exhausted. You know what? We are so fucking here for this!
Especially when it becomes clear that John Wick and Nobody writer Derek Kolstad will adapt this for the screen from a graphic novel and that it could be either a movie or a TV show, it is undecided at this point.
This feels like it should be right up the his alley.
Dinesh Shamdasani and Benjamin Simpson are both producing.
The original Robert Venditti wrote the original, with Raúl Allén and Antonio del Hoya illustrating.
Put Ordained on the list!