Boys has become one of Prime Video exclusive television series; It garnered thousands of views and has already spawned two different spin-off shows. But all of that would never have happened if the creators’ original plans for the franchise hadn’t fallen through.
Once upon a time, Boys It almost became a big screen movie trilogy. The franchise is based on an independent comic by writer Garth Ennis and artist Darick Robertson, which ran from 2006 to 2012.
Just a few months after the book’s publication, a Children The adaptation began to attract interest from Hollywood. A new piece in Rolling Stone reveals that after executive producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg read Boys In the debut issue, they helped bring the material to Sony for the first time.
From there, the project was developed at Sony for a full decade before ending as Boys Television series (developed by Eric Kripke). In fact, the article states that “for a time, the director Adam McKay I was trying to turn Boys into a trilogy of films (the first even reached a finished script and even animated demonstrations of scenes), but could not get the green light in a pre-MCU Hollywood.”
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It’s a wild thing to imagine Boys in a world before the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it’s been so long since the original comic debuted. And maybe that’s why the show took so long to make; It really made a lot more sense as a response to and satire of the world of comic books and comic book movies after they pushed even further into the mainstream thanks to the MCU and the similar proliferation of DC Comics adaptations in recent years.
Boys was recently renewed for a fifth season on Prime Video, which will also be its last batch of episodes.
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