Dark and Gritty Trailer For Karl Urban's Amazon Comic Book Series THE BOYS

Amazon has released a new trailer for their upcoming adaptation of Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s comic book series, The Boys. As you’ll see, this is going to be a dark and gritty series and this trailer teases some of the brutality that it will entail.

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg have been developing the series and it stars Karl Urban as Billy Butcher, Jack Quaid as "Wee" Hughie Campbell, Karen Fukuhara as The Female, and Laz Alonso as Mother's Milk. It was also reported that Simon Pegg has joined the series as the father of Hughie, which was modeled after him in the comics. Here’s the synopsis:

In a world where superheroes embrace the darker side of their massive celebrity and fame, THE BOYS centers on a group of vigilantes known informally as “The Boys,” who set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than their blue-collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty. THE BOYS is a fun and 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 Vought – the multi-billion dollar conglomerate that manages these superheroes.

Billy Butcher (Urban), who is described as "mysterious and brutal with a personal but secret agenda. He approaches Hughie (Quaid), claiming to be a shadowy government operative. Butcher capitalizes on Hughie's rage over his girlfriend Robin’s accidental death at the hands of Superhero A-Train (Jessie T. Usher) and enlists Hughie as part of his plan to bring down the superhero system."

Supernatural creator Eric Kripke also helped create this series and he will serve as the showrunner. The series will also star Karen Fukuhara, Erin Moriarty, Antony Starr, Dominique McElligott, Chace Crawford and Nathan Mitchell. Enjoy the trailer!

The Boys season 1 will debut on Amazon in 2019.

THE BOYS Trailer #2 (2019) Karl Urban Superhero Series HD PLOT: In a world where superheroes embrace the darker side of their massive celebrity and fame, The Boys centers on a group of vigilantes known informally as "The Boys," who set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than their blue-collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty.