Chilling Adventures of Sabrina star Jaz Sinclair is set to lead the cast of Amazon’s planned The Boys spinoff.
The 26-year-old actress, who has also appeared in the likes of The Vampire Diaries, Slender Man and Paper Towns, will play "one of the young superheroes" named Marie. Sinclair joins Lizze Broadway as fellow supe in-training, Emma.
The untitled, R-rated series is being written by executive producer Craig Rosenberg, and is described as "part college show and part Hunger Games, [it] follows the lives of hormonal, competitive Supes as they put their physical, sexual, and moral boundaries to the test, competing for the best contracts in the best cities."
The logline prompted speculation that the show might be based The G-Men from the comic books, and Kripke recently confirmed that the controversial super-team will at least partially inspire the direction of the new series.
“I would say it’s loosely inspired by an element of the comics, which is the G-Men. Part of the G-Men is there’s sort of an educational, college experience,” Kripke said in a recent interview. “And we just used that as a jumping-off point, kind of similar to ‘The Boys,’ where we sort of take an initial notion and then we are going to run with it in our own weird direction.”
In the comics, The G-Men's equivalent of Charles Xavier is a twisted paedophile named John Godolkin who sexually molests the children under his care, so... yeah, let's hope they don't stick too closely to the source material this time.
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