THE BOYS TV Series Receives Script Order from Amazon

One step closer to achieving Herogasm.

Variety reported that the live-action adaptation of Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's The Boys has landed at Amazon, after being reported in development at Cinemax last year.  

According to the article, The Boys has "received a script order from Amazon and is being eyed for a possible straight-to-series pickup."  The project is the first from Amazon's event-series unit, which is responsible for creating limited series, not ongoings set over several seasons.

The 2016 article revealed that the TV adaptation is being developed by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and Supernatural creator Eric Kripke, and written by Kripke.  Rogen and Goldberg, who helmed the Preacher pilot, are set to direct.  Serving as executive producers are Original Film’s Neal Moritz, Pavun Shetty and Ori Marmur; Point Grey’s Rogen, Goldberg and James Weaver; Kripke; as well as Ken Levin and Kickstart’s Jason Netter (Preacher).  Ennis and co-creator Darick Robertson will serve as co-executive producers.

The series is set "in a time where most of the superheroes are corrupted by their celebrity status and often engage in reckless behavior, compromising the safety of the world.  It centers on a CIA squad, known informally as 'The Boys,' whose job is to keep watch on the proliferation of superheroes and, if necessary, eliminate some of them."

The Boys, which ran for 72 issues and three 6-issue limited series from 2006-2012, was published initially by Wildstorm (#1-6) and then by Dynamite Entertainment.  Filled with extreme violence, sexual situations and dark humor, the series began with an Englishman named Billy Butcher who learns of a presidential directive charging the CIA with monitoring all superheroes.  He uses the directive to get the backing required to reform "The Boys," a black ops team designed to police the superhero community.  Butcher brings together Mother's Milk, the Frenchman, and the Female (of the Species), but the Boys' fifth member, Mallory, refuses to return as his grandkids were murdered due to his involvement with the group.  Requiring five in the team, Butcher recruits a Scottish conspiracy theorist named "Wee Hughie" Campbell, whose girlfriend was accidentally killed by A-Train, a reckless member of major superhero team The Seven.