Karl Urban Joins Amazon’s Comic Adaptation ‘The Boys’
Karl Urbanis going to crack open some cold ones withThe Boys. TheThor: Ragnarokactor is the latest addition to Amazon’s new series adapted from theGarth Ennis/Darick Robertsoncomic book. The series is set in a world where superheroes exist, and have grown corrupted by their fame. As a result, the CIA employs a secret team to monitor them. Urban will play the leader of the superhero monitoring team. Read on for more info onThe Boyscast.
Amazon is busy thinking aboutBoysas they assemble the cast of their anti-superhero series.Star TrekandThor: Ragnarokactor Karl Urban is the latest actor to join a line-up that already consists ofAntony Starr,Dominique McElligott,Chace Crawford,Jessie T. Usher,Jack Quaid,Nathan Mitchel,Erin Moriarty, andKarenFukuhara.
Urban will play Billy Butcher, the leader of a team of agents who monitor fame-hungry superheroes.THRsays the show’s take on the character is being described as someone “mysterious and brutal with a personal but secret agenda” who “approaches Hughie (Jack Quaid), claiming to be a shadowy government operative. Butcher capitalizes on Hughie’s rage over his girlfriend Robin’s (uncast) 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.”
SupernaturalcreatorEric Kripkewill serve as showrunner on the series, which will be directed bySeth RogenandEvan Goldberg. The series is an adaptation of the Garth Ennis/Darick Robertson comic with the following description:
I’ve seen some people suggest Artist Darick Robertson drew Billy Butcher to resemble actor Vinnie Jones – an actor you might remember from various Guy Ritchie movies, and alsoX-Men: The Last Stand, where he had the opportunity to make audiences groan by shouting, “I’m the Juggernaut, bitch!” Robertson, however, based the character’s look off of Robert Shaw, ofJawsandThe Stingfame. The only actor Robertson directly referenced for his art is Simon Pegg, with Pegg’s blessing.
