Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

The Boys

2/23/10 – SCI FI Wire reported that screenwriters Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi are adapting a new comic property, Garth Ennis' The Boys.  The screenwriters have turned in an adaptation of Garth Ennis' The Boys for Kickstart Productions and Columbia Pictures. Ennis began the ongoing series in 2006, about a group of super-powered CIA agents who basically keep watch over the superheroes of a contemporary society. When a superhero steps out of line, "The Boys" take the necessary steps to police them in no-holds-barred fashion. Rife with sex and violence, the series was canceled after six issues by DC's Wildstorm because, as Ennis has stated, they found the anti-superhero tone to be a little bit unsettling. The series later found a home at Dynamite Entertainment.  Hay and Manfredi say Ennis has been great to work with, inviting them to make changes as they feel necessary. "We're just huge fans of the book and of Garth Ennis," says Manfredi. "It's very faithful to the original. It has been a really good experience to work on."

08/27/08 - Writers Matt Manfredi and Phil Hay have been hired to adapt the comic-book series The Boys for Columbia, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Neal H. Moritz and his Columbia-based Original Films are producing the project, based on the comic book created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. The story follows the adventures of a CIA squad, known informally as "the boys," whose job is to keep watch on the proliferation of superheroes and, if necessary, intimidate or eliminate them.

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