Garth Ennis Says The Boys Is Simpler Than Preacher To Make Into A Movie

Garth Ennis Says The Boys Is Simpler Than Preacher To Make Into A Movie

The award winning writer thinks it would be difficult to make Preacher. Would The Boys be the easiest of his original works to move forward with?

By DogsOfWar - May 25, 2010 02:05 PM EST
Filed Under: The Boys
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Garth Ennis realizes that alterations need to happen for most comic book movie adaptations. That seems to be one of the main reasons Preacher has had so much trouble getting off the ground. Another is much of his work has very adult themes and images. The writer feels one of his other works, The Boys, has a much easier path to the big screen.



"Once you start plucking enough of 'Preacher' to make a two-hour film, you have to leave so much out of it. And once you start taking bits out of it, the whole lot collapses. On the other hand, it would be quite easy to take 'The Boys' and take the core team of five and just have them as a team that surveils and occasionally beats up superheroes," he explained. "That's a simple enough concept that you could isolate it and put into a two-hour film as a self-contained story."

The Boys follows a superpowered CIA squad, known informally as "The Boys", whose job it is to keep watch on superheroes and, if necessary, intimidate, blackmail, or kill them.

Asked if he has been involved with the writing team (Matt Manfredi and Phil Hay) at all, Ennis replied:

"I did have one initial conversation with the writers and we seem to be on the same page, but since then I’ve not really been involved. Unless I’m in something from the beginning, as with 'Crossed,' I tend to just sit back and just let whatever’s going to happen, happen. It’s crazy to worry about something you have no control over."

Crossed, by the way, is a series that follows a group of survivors beset by victims of a disease that makes people engage in all manner of deranged, vile and inhumane acts upon each other. The title of the series comes from the cross-shaped rash that develops on the faces of victims. Ennis is working directly on a screenplay for that.
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Loganace
Loganace - 5/25/2010, 3:35 PM
I've read the comic and at first I liked the idea behind it but then it just went way overboard for me,

this is probably the only time I'll say this about a comic adaptation, but whenever this gets made I sure do hope they tone it down, cause this is seriously the most ridiculously over the top violent and over sexed comic I've ever read...

Haven't read Crossed though
longbowhunter
longbowhunter - 5/25/2010, 3:38 PM
Agreed, The Boys is nowhere near as layered as Preacher. I'd love to see a Boys movie.
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 5/25/2010, 4:38 PM
Just hurry up an make the [frick]ing thing!

.... On both counts! : P
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 5/25/2010, 4:42 PM
The Boys has gotten tired. The first couple of trades were good..then Ennis went and disappeared into his own ass! Preacher remains his masterpiece for me. Make it, even if they have to leave it open for a sequel, I mean its not like every [frick]ing Hollywood movie doesn't do that nowadays anyway!
P862010
P862010 - 5/25/2010, 4:48 PM
the boys they could probably go a different route story wise as long as they keep the characters and themes right and no one would complain
Colton
Colton - 5/25/2010, 6:31 PM
i would love to see preacher! look wat they did with watchmen, which i tot was excellent. loads of shit in watchmen but dey still pulled it off. ennis.... MAKE PREACHER FOR THE BIG SCREEN!!!
bleedthefreak
bleedthefreak - 5/25/2010, 8:10 PM
damn i could go for a boys movie that would be awesome. never read preacher any good?
chasesuperremey
chasesuperremey - 5/25/2010, 8:52 PM
Man the boys would be hard core would realy like to see.
AlexDeLarge87
AlexDeLarge87 - 5/26/2010, 6:57 AM
PREACHER IS LEGEND!!!:)
The Boys is awesome too but Preacher is the winner to me!!
Proinsias Cassady is one of the most vicious vampire in the world!:D

Ps. Preacher should be a trilogy!
marvel72
marvel72 - 5/26/2010, 9:44 AM
yeah the boys maybe easier to make into a film but i'd rather see the preacher get made.

@ bleedthefreak16 i'd put the preacher up their with the watchmen,the dark knight returns,the uncanny x-men 137(the death of phoenix.).
as one of the greatest comics ever written.
derberg49
derberg49 - 5/26/2010, 12:21 PM
I would love to see Crossed or the Boys. How about Just a Pilgrim? Ennis is one of the best writers going in comics these days. I will get anything with his name on it! Pride & Joy would make a great adaptation too. I would really like to see the Boys or Preacher as a series. For Preacher it's the only way to go. As to the Boys - we need some an anti-hero story like this. Watchmen and Wanted just didn't get it right.
Crossed would be interesting, but it has to remain gritty and vile, or it will just be a zombie movie. The crossed are a reflection of our deepest darkest thoughts and actions and there's just no toning that down or it loses it's impact.
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