The Boys - An Amazon Prime adaptation of the Ennis comic series

[Gay Sex Enjoyer]

They’re making a TV series based off Crossed.

 

[TheHarbinger]

They’re making a TV series based off Crossed. I have no fucking idea how they’re going to make that fit for TV short of toning it down to The Crazies levels of violence.

It's only a movie. They finished filming it last year and it's in post production (supposedly a lot of CGI).

 

[trent]

Are you new to Garth Ennis? Crossed has a scene where some guy gets his young daughter graphically torn to pieces because he thought salt repelled the zombies. This scene is framed like a comedy.

Ennis is Northern Irish so he is basically the closest thing to a cave dwelling savage that exists in the Western world.

Backwards mutants from a forbidden zone that no civilized country wants to take responsibility for.

 

[TheArtilleryman]

My post does of course assume there was some reason they weren't allowed to just do a straight adaption of the comic, like the people paying for the show wanting something different or something like that.

The comics are very anti-corporation, I would argue even more so than anti-superhero. All of the themes and evil characterisations of Vought in the comics can also be easily applied to Amazon in real life. They had to make it about Orange Man Bad or some other current day bullshit instead of publishing a work that is obviously extremely critical of their own existence (the megacorp who owns the show)

It's actually disgusting how a corporation took this venomous critique of corporate America and turned it in to more goyslop. Fuck Amazon.