Seth Rogen Wants To Bring Garth Ennis' THE BOYS To Cable TV

Actor/writer/producer/director Seth Rogen is already hard at work on one TV adaptation of a Garth Ennis comic — he and his writing/producing partner Evan Goldberg were able to get Preacher off the ground as an AMC series — but it looks like he's not content with just that one adaptation making its way to the small screen. Birth.Movies.Death is reporting that Rogen, Goldberg, and Supernatural creator Eric Kripke are shopping an adaptation of Ennis' The Boys around to different cable networks.

Here's the plot synopsis for The Boys:

This is going to hurt! In a world where costumed heroes soar through the sky and masked vigilantes prowl the night, someone’s got to make sure the “supes” don’t get out of line. And someone will! Billy Butcher, Wee Hughie, Mother’s Milk, The Frenchman, and The Female are The Boys: A CIA-backed team of very dangerous people, each one dedicated to the struggle against the most dangerous force on Earth – superpower! Some superheroes have to be watched. Some have to be controlled. And some of them – sometimes – need to be taken out of the picture. That’s when you call in The Boys! The Boys Vol. 1: The Name of the Game collects the first six issues of the hit series The Boys by Garth Ennis (Preacher, The Punisher) and drawn by Darick Robertson (Transmetropolitan, Wolverine)!

If that plot sounds familiar, that's because there seems to be a little resurgence in off-beat anti-superhero stories similar to this one lately with things like Suicide Squad and PlayStation's Powers. You might also remember that a film adaptation of The Boys was in the works for years with Anchorman director Adam McKay attached, but he couldn't ever quite get it off the ground. (At one point, he was eyeing Russell Crowe and Simon Pegg for two of the lead roles.) If Rogen and Goldberg were the guys who finally pushed Preacher to the finish line after years in development hell, maybe they can do the same to this Ennis project as well. The comic is super violent, so it'll be interesting to see which network (if any) decides to bite on this one.

Have you read The Boys? Do you think it would make for a good TV series?