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 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. |
