Looks like the dams are overflowing with movie announcements today … Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s excellent series The Boys has been optioned by Columbia Pictures:
Moritz characterized the series as an original take on the superhero genre. “Rather than begin with a romantic idea of superheroes out to save the world, ‘The Boys’ imagines a world in which superheroes really exist, with all of the flaws that real people have,” he said. “The boys are there to make sure that people with superhuman powers don’t get out of line.”
The comicbook is published by Dynamite Entertainment. Rights were initially optioned by Kickstart Comic Art Studios. Kickstart’s Jason Netter and NightSky Entertainment’s Ken F. Levin will produce the film with Moritz; Original’s Ori Marmur exec produces.
The book started out at Wildstorm, but was canceled due to content concerns. Ennis and Robertson then took the book to Dynamite, where the duo continues to turn the superhero genre on its head and do bad, bad things to it.
February 21st, 2008 at 9:58 am
You mean Warner Bros. didn’t snap this up? AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
There’s something funny and ironical about the mispelling in the title of this entry (Holywood) and the subject matter but I’m in a drug induced haze and can’t quite put my finger on it.
If they don’t at least make an effort to get Simon Pegg I’ll have to consider passing on this film.
February 21st, 2008 at 10:04 am
Oooh, I wonder if they’ll get Stan Lee to cameo?
February 21st, 2008 at 10:17 am
Heh … I thought about leaving it like that.