The Boys Was Almost a Movie Trilogy Before It Was a TV Show

The Boys is simply a bigger deed than ever for Prime Video in its 4th season, with a fifth and last season already connected the way—not to notation the upcoming season 2 of spin-off Gen V, plus The Boys: Mexico coming soon. But according to a caller report, the fashionable TV bid was astir a movie bid instead.

According to a Rolling Stone nonfiction which calls The Boys “secretly the champion amusement connected television,” the beloved comic book-turned-film bid dragging superheroes done the mud was this close to becoming a movie trilogy from manager Adam McKay. The outlet reports that Sony bought the rights to the spot successful 2008 aft Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg—who are present among the Prime Video series’ enforcement producers—excitedly brought a transcript of the archetypal contented of the Garth Ennis-Darick Richardson comic to a transportation meeting.

Speaking to the magazine, Rogen said, “We were like, ‘Holy shit, this is fucking crazy. And that week we went to Sony and we’re like, ‘You guys should marque this.’” The spot yet went to manager McKay—who’s since made The Big Short and Don’t Look Up, but successful 2008 was mostly known for his Will Ferrell collaborations, including the Funny oregon Die tract and features Anchorman and Step Brothers—who thought lone a trilogy of films could bash justness to the communicative of Butcher, Homelander, and company. The outlet states the archetypal of which “went arsenic acold arsenic a finished screenplay and adjacent demo animatics of scenes,” but “the satellite wasn’t ready” successful 2008— the twelvemonth superhero movies similar Iron Man and The Dark Knight were lone conscionable opening to overtake theaters similar an invasive species.

In the words of Robertson, “it conscionable came down to it being 2008, not 2018. I conscionable don’t deliberation they were acceptable for it yet.” However, Robertson feels nary sick volition for Sony. “I wouldn’t alteration however it worked out, due to the fact that the amusement is amazing. But [McKay] was doing truly chill stuff.”

The Boys play 4 is streaming present connected Prime Video.

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