Fans have been waiting for Garth Ennis’ The Boys to become a live-action movie or television show for years. Several people have tried to make it happen – but now, finally, it’s being adapted for Amazon, and casting is in full effect.
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg will be directing the pilot of The Boys for Amazon, and while Erin Moriarty (Captain Fantastic) was cast as Starlight a few months back, here are some new additions:
- Antony Starr (American Gothic) is Homelander
- Dominique McElligott (Moon) is Queen Maeve
- Jessie T. Usher (Independence Day: Resurgence) is A-Train
- Chace Crawford (Gossip Girl) is The Deep
- Nathan Mitchell (Supernatural) is Black Noir
The Boys is about a world where superheroes live among us but regularly overstep their bounds; the Boys are a black-ops group that’s tasked with keeping superheroes in check.
All of these new castmembers are part of the Seven, kind of this story’s equivalent of the Justice League or Avengers, who regularly clash with the Boys. That means there’s plenty more casting to come before Rogen and Goldberg get the show in front of cameras. But after years of talk about people adapting the comic, it’s now only a matter of time before we’ll actually get to see that happen.
[Deadline]