Seth Rogen on Adapting 'The Boys' for Cinemax
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg have pulled off adapting Preacher, something that seemed less and less possible as the years added up. Now, with that one hitting screens and capitalising on hype by meeting and excelling expectations, the two long-time collaborators look to another of Garth Ennis' comic books for adaptation.
Speaking recently with THR, Rogen revealed that The Boys would be a project set up at Cinemax, where Robert Kirkman is launching his own comic book adaptation Outcast this week.
“We’re in a similar place with it now where we were with Preacher. Now that we’ve convinced everyone to let us adapt this into a show, what are we actually going to do?”
The Boys is the story of a government-supported task force that by any means necessary takes down any superhero who has seemingly gone rogue or lost their sense of duty. In this world, superheroes are no longer respected and admired, but are psychotic and perverse.
Preacher is a confronting book at times, but The Boys ramps that up to a hundred, and is genuinely unsettling and upsetting in parts. “Ten years ago, if you introduced The Boys to a mainstream audience, they would’ve been mystified, they would be able to identify roughly who was standing in for Batman, Superman, the Hulk, probably Spider-Man and Captain America. Not beyond that," Ennis said.
"Now, 10 years on, with the success of the various franchises, mainstream audiences have been educated in the world of superheroes. So when an Iron Man-esque guy pops up, they’ll know who that is. That’s going to be simpler.”
The idea of setting a story in the traditional world of superheroes has always been "very appealing" to the duo. There's no word on when we can expect to see the series, but should Preacher continue to do well, expect it sooner rather than later.
Source: Screenrant
