CBR: Columbia Drops "The Boys" Movie

**Simbob4000** · 02-11-2012, 05:55 AM

I didn't know Adam McKay was going to do The Boys, I would have loved to see that movie.

**CBR News** · 02-11-2012, 06:32 AM

Columbia Pictures has abandoned development of "The Boys," an adaptation of the superhero satire comic by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, and put the project into turnaround.

Full article here.

**Rod G** · 02-11-2012, 06:40 AM

Considering the series' content, no wonder Columbia dropped it.

**Dark-Flux** · 02-11-2012, 08:02 AM

Cant really imagine a movie version being that accurate an adaptation so maybe its for the best.

**Rollo Tomassi** · 02-11-2012, 08:59 AM

Oh. Darn. Phooey. Shucks.

**fever00** · 02-11-2012, 10:34 AM

Originally Posted by Dark-Flux

Cant really imagine a movie version being that accurate an adaptation so maybe its for the best.

See, unlike Preacher, this could be done well as a movie. It would lose a lot of the depth, but two hours of Butcher beating the shit out of superheroes would be perfect.

**Legato** · 02-11-2012, 11:11 AM

Double post.

**Legato** · 02-11-2012, 11:12 AM

Personally the comic would be more suitable as a HBO series than a actual movie.

**nightwing1982** · 02-11-2012, 11:25 AM

Glad this was dropped. Some series are just meant to be the way their are.

**Legato** · 02-11-2012, 11:52 AM

Originally Posted by nightwing1982

Glad this was dropped. Some series are just meant to be the way their are.

I really don't see this adapted well as a movie. Especially since it will be a dumbed down PG-13 version.

**Surtur** · 02-11-2012, 02:09 PM

Damn, and I was oh so looking forward to that scene where the Superman, Batman, and Flash analogues "initiate" the new female member.

**Mr_Wayne** · 02-11-2012, 02:39 PM

Originally Posted by Legato

I really don't see this adapted well as a movie. Especially since it will be a dumbed down PG-13 version.

Adam McKay ("Anchorman," "Talladega Nights") came on board to direct and rewrite what he described in March 2011 as "a $100 million, rated-R, anti-superhero movie."

What PG-13 version are you referring to? By the way, if people like Adam McKay are taking interest then a proper adaption can be done. It's not impossible.

**earl** · 02-11-2012, 10:43 PM

Vinnie Jones would be pretty perfect as Butcher.

That said, the series is way too insane to make as a TV show or a movie.

Even cleaning out the whole sex humor stuff, which is all over the comic, you think the whole Vaught angle storyline with 9-11 as a backdrop would fly?

You can't do the movie without that and I don't think the general US population is ready for any kind of movie like The Boys that uses this as a backdrop.

Preacher is edgy and has things that wouldn't make it into TV, but I could see it somehow being made. I just don't see the Boys ever working that way.

**Simbob4000** · 02-11-2012, 11:15 PM

Originally Posted by earl

Vinnie Jones would be pretty perfect as Butcher.

That said, the series is way too insane to make as a TV show or a movie.

Even cleaning out the whole sex humor stuff, which is all over the comic, you think the whole Vaught angle storyline with 9-11 as a backdrop would fly?

You can't do the movie without that and I don't think the general US population is ready for any kind of movie like The Boys that uses this as a backdrop.

Preacher is edgy and has things that wouldn't make it into TV, but I could see it somehow being made. I just don't see the Boys ever working that way.

I like Vinnie Jones, but no, he wouldn't be.