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A don’t-watch-it-at-work trailer for “The Boys”, the Amazon Original series from Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, has hit.
The thing was unleashed, funnily enough, on Reddit by Garth Ennis, writer and co-creator of the original comic book series. The show, which features ’80s hottie Elisabeth Shue, premieres July 26 exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories (those at Tribeca will be privy to a pilot preview on April 29 though).
“The Boys” is described as “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 and covers up all of their dirty secrets.”
The Boys are Hughie (Jack Quaid, “The Hunger Games”), Billy Butcher (Karl Urban, “Star Trek”), Mother’s Milk (Laz Alonso, “Detroit”), Frenchie (Tomer Capon, “Hostages”), and The Female (Karen Fukuhara, “Suicide Squad”). Simon Pegg (“Mission: Impossible – Fallout”) guest stars as Hughie’s father.
The Supes of The Seven are led by Homelander (Antony Starr, “Banshee”) who is joined by Starlight (Erin Moriarty, “Captain Fantastic”), Queen Maeve (Dominique McElligott, “House of Cards”), A-Train (Jessie T. Usher, “Independence Day: Resurgence”), The Deep (Chace Crawford, “Gossip Girl”) and Black Noir (Nathan Mitchell, “Supernatural”).
The aforesaid Ms Shue (“Leaving Las Vegas”) stars as Madelyn Stillwell, Vought’s Senior VP of Hero Management.
Eric Kripke developed and serves as showrunner and wrote and directed the season finale. The pilot episode was directed by Dan Trachtenberg (“10 Cloverfield Lane”).
