Seth Rogen Is Bringing 'The Boys' To Cinemax

Much like the upcoming "Preacher," for years, the adaptation Garth Ennis' other acclaimed comic "The Boys," was a hard one to get made. The ultra violent source material follows a group of government grunts tasked with keeping superheroes in check, only to wind up being reckless and selfish themselves. For a while, Adam McKay had the project set up at Paramount, but as he told us last fall, they just weren't biting on his extreme script. Nor was anyone else.

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"I was trying to do Garth Ennis' 'The Boys' at one point, and I took it to every studio, every production financing place in town. And they were always like, 'No.' I had this crazy pre-viz reel that I'd done, and it was insane, like superheroes doing cocaine. And they all said, lazily, 'So it's like 'Watchmen'?' And then eventually I started realizing that no one was going to do it,...