LET’S HEAR IT FOR THE BOYS
Posted: 060518

10 Cloverfield Lane’s Dan Trachtenberg will step in for Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg to direct the pilot for Amazon’s adaptation of the Garth Ennis/Darick Robertson’s The Boys. Rogen and Goldberg had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts but remain as executive producers. The series will follow a CIA black ops team tasked with monitoring the ‘heroes’ who have become corrupt: spying on them, blackmailing them, and even occasionally roughing them up to force them to stay in line. The series will star Suicide Squad’s Karen Fukuhara as Female, a young Asian assassin; Jessica Jones’ Erin Moriarty as Annie January/Starlight; Rampage’s Jack Quaid as Hughie; Jessie Usher as A-Train; Detroit’s Laz Alonso as Mother’s Milk and Star Trek’s Karl Urban as Billy Butcher. The eight-episode first season is set to debut sometime in 2019.