TV Show Discussion: The Boys by Garth Ennis on Amazon Prime (Fonz Approved!!!) Update: Gen V spin off airing new!

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Superheroes gone wild! Supernatural creator previews The Boys, his super-R-rated new show

By Nick Romano
May 24, 2019 at 01:49 PM EDT
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Who would’ve thought that a comic book with enough superhero orgy sequences to make Superman blush would bear any parallels to our current reality? But when Supernatural creator Eric Kripke sat down with comic writer Garth Ennis to talk about turning The Boys into a television series for Amazon, that’s what he wanted to unpack.

Recalling that dinner from “a couple years ago,” Kripke says Ennis was originally interested in exploring “what would happen if you combine the worst of celebrity with the worst of politics and how badly that would screw over the common man.” In 2019, when The Boys will now premiere on Amazon Prime Video as a super-R-rated superhero series on July 26, our real world has a former reality television star sitting in the Oval Office and social media has only exacerbated our celebrity-crazed culture.

“[Ennis] predicted the world we are now living in,” Kripke tells EW. “I don’t think the world’s improved.”

Written at the tail-end of the Bush Administration in 2005, The Boys, featuring graphic imagery from Darick Robertson, envisioned a world where superheroes are “the one percent of the one percent,” as the showrunner describes. They save people for the glory of their own image, they squabble over branding opportunities and the continuation of their respective movie franchises, and they have little regard for human life.

In come “The Boys.” Billy Butcher (Karl Urban), new recruit Hughie Campbell (Jack Quaid), Mother’s Milk (Laz Alonso), Frenchie (Tomer Capon), and the Female (Karen Fukuhara) are a street-level group of merciless blue-collar vigilantes who aim to keep these Gods in check — even if that means shoving a detonator up their butts. Yes, it gets that graphic, but it’s part of the freedom — the ability to “take my handcuffs off,” as Kripke puts it — that comes with producing a show like The Boys for a streaming platform and not network television.

“If you just want to watch a shocking superheroes-behaving-badly show, you can. If you want to get connected to the characters, you can,” Kripke says. “And then there’s also a lot of satire and commentary on the world we’re living in, on celebrity culture, on corporate culture, on where celebrity intersects with power and politics to the disadvantage of the general public. The superhero metaphor turned out to be endlessly durable the more we explored it.”



The problem was sometimes the original material proved to be too timely. Kripke, who’s dealt with the metaphors of genre television through Supernaturaland Timeless, didn’t want this to be a straight parody of the world in 2019. It couldn’t be about mimicking “what this politician or that celebrity is doing,” or else, he says, “we’re dead.”

“There’s been more than one situation where we’ve come up with a scene or storyline in the writer’s room and then something happened in reality that was crazier than the story we were pitching,” he adds. “So, we’ve had to erase stories ’cause reality outdid us in how insane things are.”

Part of that meant recognizing when the original material didn’t hold up now, more than a decade later.

For instance, in the first volume of the comics, published in 2006, Starlight, a female hero, becomes the latest to join The Seven, which is this world’s equivalent of the Justice League or the Avengers. While getting a tour of the headquarters, she is sexually assaulted when Homelander (a Superman/Captain America figure), A Train (a speedster like The Flash/Quicksilver), and Black Noir (the Batman figure) pressure her into oral sex. Without getting into too many spoilers, the writers felt “the #MeToo [movement] had to be a part of the show,” but Kripke notes this was one of those moments they needed to tweak for a more current audience.

“You approach something like that with an incredible amount of thought and conversation,” he says. “You welcome and need an incredible amount of diverse points of view from the women on the staff, from Erin [Moriarty], the [Starlight] actress… I’ve never done anything that heavy before, so I felt an extreme responsibility to get it right and to, in certain ways, step out of the way of peoples’ feelings about the issue and just try to accurately get it right — and hopefully we did.”

Yes, there’s the fun of Billy using a baby with laser vision as his own personal hand cannon, but the showrunner believes more poignant conversations need to be “pushed out” into stories like these.

“Sunlight,” he adds, “is the best disinfectant.”
 

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Here's the premise:

The show is an adaptation of the Garth Ennis comic series which takes place in a world where The Seven—the world’s most notorious superheroes—glob onto the limelight while their atrocities keep getting swept under the rug. So a man named Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) recruits a gang called The Boys, all of whom have been wronged by The Seven, to bring the superheroes down and put an end to corruption.



Shit looks insane!!!
 

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My homegirl auditioned for a major role on this. I can't wait to see it. I loved the comic series.
 

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I saw a screening of the first episode. It has promise. They could also easily mess this up. The main character has good motivation so it can end up being a cool journey. It sort of asks the same question as Brightburn but in a less serious tone:
If super-powered people existed and got out of hand, what could you do to make them accountable for their actions?

Also, if you see anyone wearing a hat that says "F**K SUPES", it came from the screening (or is merch for the show).
 

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https://variety.com/2019/tv/reviews/amazon-the-boys-1203199336/

TV Review: ‘The Boys’
By DANIEL D'ADDARIO
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In the first episode screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, Amazon’s new superhero series “The Boys” exhibits a fair bit of promise — as well as some frustrating tendencies. The best aspects of the pilot are all rooted in world-building, in thinking through a universe in which superheroes were actual celebrities, and monetizable at that. The worst pop up through a tendency to oversell the cynicism of such a universe, to work overly hard to convince us some of the characters we’re only just meeting are disgusting and corrupt.

Based on an ultraviolent comic book series, “The Boys” depicts its heroes as motivated not by the desire to help humanity but by a craving to help themselves to its spoils. Indeed, their exploits can end up causing serious harm, as when the hero A-Train (Jessie Usher), moving recklessly at super-speed, runs literally through the body of Robin (Jess Salgueiro), leaving her boyfriend Hughie (Jack Quaid) holding onto her disembodied hands as the rest of her body liquifies. Knowing that this scene transpires in lovingly shot slow motion may help you understand if this show is for you. It sets up Hughie’s quest for revenge (abetted by Karl Urban as a mysterious figure whose superpower may be charismatically making the labored script seem human) as explicitly as possible. Too explicitly, perhaps, by half.





Even when they’re not incurring a body count, the superheroes employed as a marketing tool for the show’s Vought firm are, at least, hurting the image of heroes: The Deep (a sort of Aquaman figure played by Chace Crawford) demands sexual favors from his newly recruited superheroine colleague Starlight (Erin Moriarty, optimistic and then broken), who follows through so as not to lose her position on this show’s version of the Justice League before it’s even begun. We later see her vomiting in shame in a bathroom.



It takes a taste for subversion to cast Crawford — a former teen idol possessed of good looks of a sort of lab-grown blandness — as a superhero, and then make that superhero not an avatar of American goodness but of the worst sort of male chauvinism and toxicity. (In another life, Crawford might have played Superman; now he’s acting out a vision of sexual coercion in Metropolis instead, and not convincingly. Pained throughout, not having as much fun as a real bad guy would.) But it doesn’t really take imagination. At least in its first episode, “The Boys” doesn’t so much reimagine the superhero genre — as, say, the book “Watchmen,” soon to be adapted for HBO did, or as “Preacher,” with which “The Boys” shares executive producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, does — as just imagine its polar opposite. Moral decay — the opposite of goodness — isn’t moral complexity; indeed, watching characters with no peskily complicating morality whatsoever is indeed a fairly simple endeavor.

All viewers at Tribeca had to go on was a first episode, and “The Boys” could become any number of things as it rolls on. But the tone it struck in its first outing was a dully familiar one — the sense that to transgress, alone, is enough. If this show is to actually satirize the wide-open target of superhero entertainments, it’ll need to find a second gear, and quickly.



“The Boys.” Amazon. July 26. Pilot screened at Tribeca Film Festival April 29.

Cast: Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Dominique McElligott, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Tomer Capon, Karen Fukuhara, Nathan Mitchell, Elisabeth Shue

Executive Producers: Eric Kripke, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver, Neal H. Moritz, Pavun Shetty, Ori Marmur, Ken F. Levin, Jason Netter
 

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PLOT: In a world where superheroes embrace the darker side of their massive celebrity and fame, The Boys centers on a group of vigilantes known informally as “The Boys,” who set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than their blue-collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty.

Teaser Number 2




Still waiting for the Full Complete trailer...

but this should be good... I loved this Comic book. It's hella violent.




Update...
Full Trailer

One of the best comics I've read. PREACHER was in that group too but that wasn't shown the love this obviously was. I can't wait. If anyone's read The Boys I wonder if they'll do the huge orgy that was Herogasm don't see how they could do that like the comic!
 

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Amazon has just released a full-length trailer for its upcoming series The Boys, produced by Seth Rogen and his partner in crime Evan Goldberg. The series — based on Garth Ennis’ best-selling comics — follows Karl Urban‘s CIA operative Billy Butcher on his journey to recruit a team of vengeful spirits known as “The Boys” to fight a corrupted and abusive gang of superheroes, called “The Seven.”


The two-and-a-half-minute trailer begins by showing Billy Butcher recruiting a series of members, alongside short snippets of superheroes killing innocent people and abusing their powers — a Flash-like speedster runs through a girl. The clip then introduces “The Boys”, consisting of Butcher, Frenchie, Mother’s Milk, and Female, with more violence and eye-gouging. After another sequence of high-octane scenes of brutal encounters between “The Boys” and “The Seven” against a Spice Girls background track, the trailer finally closes with a release date: July 26.
 

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Oops. Accidentally created a new thread for this because when I searched nothing came up.

Yeah, I’m in for day one. Karl Urban hasn’t disappointed me yet.
 
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