Based on the best-selling comics by Garth Ennis, Amazon Prime Video brings The Boys to life and it’s a revenge story where the nobodies take on the somebodies.
The Boys is set in a world where superheroes embrace the darker side of their massive celebrity and fame. It revolves around a group of vigilantes known informally as “the boys,” who set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than blue-collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty. The Boys is an irreverent take on what happens when superheroes, who are as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians and as revered as Gods, abuse their superpowers rather than use them for good. It’s the powerless against the super powerful as The Boys embark on a heroic quest to expose the truth about “The Seven,” and their formiddable Vought backing.
Starring Karl Urban (Star Trek) as Billy Butcher, Jack Quaid (The Hunger Games) as ‘Wee’ Hughie Campbell, Erin Moriarty (Jessica Jones) as Starlight, Chace Crawford (Gossip Girl) as The Deep, Antony Starr (American Gothic) as Homelander, Dominique McElligott (The Last Tycoon) as Queen Maeve, Jessie T. Usher (Survivor’s Remorse) as A-Train, Nathan Mitchell (Supernatural) as Black Noir, Laz Alonso (Avatar) as Mother’s Milk, Karen Fukuhara (Suicide Squad) as Female, Tomer Kapon (When Heroes Fly) as Frenchie, and Elisabeth Shue (CSI) as Madelyn Stillwell with a guest appearance from Simon Pegg.
Supernatural creator Eric Kripke will serve as creator and showrunner on The Boys, which will be directed by Seth Rogen and his longtime producing partner Evan Goldberg. The trio will exec produce with Original Film’s Neal H. Moritz (Prison Break), Ori Marmur (Preacher), Pavun Shetty (New Girl) and James Weaver of Rogen and Goldberg’s Point Grey Pictures. Comic author Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson are on board as co-executive producers.
The Boys premieres July 26th on Amazon Prime Video.
