THOR: RAGNAROK And DREDD Actor Karl Urban Will Play Billy Butcher In Amazon's THE BOYS TV Series

THOR: RAGNAROK And DREDD Actor Karl Urban Will Play Billy Butcher In Amazon's THE BOYS TV Series

Well, this show just got a lot more interesting. Amazon's upcoming adaptation of Garth Ennis' The Boys has cast Karl Urban (Dredd, Thor: Ragnarok) in the lead role of Billy Butcher. More past the jump...

By MarkCassidy - Apr 05, 2018 03:04 PM EST
Filed Under: The Boys
We recently found out who'd be playing Mother's Milk, The Female of The Species and Wee Hughie in Amazon's The Boys adaptation, and now Deadline reports that none other than Karl Urban will be bringing life to the ultra-violent leader of the team, Billy Butcher.

In the comics, Billy puts together The Boys in an attempt to shut down Homelander and the rest of his super-powered ilk. And by put down we mean murder in the most brutal ways imaginable.

It sounds like this small-screen take on the character will be pretty faithful to the source material:


Mysterious, brutal and with a personal but secret agenda, Billy Butcher approaches Hughie (co-lead Jack Quaid), claiming to be a shadowy government operative. Butcher capitalizes on Hughie’s rage over his girlfriend Robin’s accidental death at the hands of Superhero A-Train (Jesse T. Usher) and enlists Hughie as part of his plan to bring down the Superhero franchise.

Urban should need no introduction here, having appeared in the rebooted Star Trek movies as Dr, McCoy, donning the iconic helmet of Dredd, and most recently taking on the God of Thunder as Skurge in Marvel's Thor: Ragnarok.

The Boys hails from Supernatural creator and Timeless co-creator Eric Kripke, Preacher‘s Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen, and Sony Pictures TV.
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asherman93
asherman93 - 4/5/2018, 3:22 PM
Sorry, still too busy mourning the loss of Simon Pegg as Wee Hughie.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 4/5/2018, 3:23 PM
Nice!!! Love The Boys.
MarsivNayr
MarsivNayr - 4/5/2018, 3:27 PM
I agree with this casting but man do I wish he could continue playing Dredd.
lemric
lemric - 4/5/2018, 3:28 PM
freaking awesome
ThePott
ThePott - 4/5/2018, 3:29 PM
That is great casting!

Hopefully the series tones it down a little bit, The Boys tried to hard to be shocking in my opinion.
WaffeX
WaffeX - 4/5/2018, 3:30 PM
awesome, Antony Starr AND Karl Urban, can't wait
leethario
leethario - 4/5/2018, 11:24 PM
@IcemanX - but who is Starr playing? I thought he might have been Billy, but obviously not.
WaffeX
WaffeX - 4/6/2018, 6:07 AM
@leethario - Starr will play Homelander, the leader of the show’s primary superhero collective known as The Seven.
leethario
leethario - 4/6/2018, 7:24 AM
@IcemanX - Frick yes!! Now that is some good news.
regularmovieguy
regularmovieguy - 4/5/2018, 3:31 PM


Let’s hear it for the boys! This is awesome casting.
DillonEnnis
DillonEnnis - 4/5/2018, 4:02 PM
This is amazing
blitzburgh
blitzburgh - 4/5/2018, 5:43 PM
I'm not paying for another streaming service, don't care
case
case - 4/5/2018, 7:56 PM
He's doing TV? Do the [frick]ING Dredd show!!
CLTMAN29
CLTMAN29 - 4/6/2018, 2:28 AM
This is really really left field casting, I wouldn't have had on my list of top 20 choices. I'm a fan of Urbans's work but this could make or break this, if he can't get the accent down and perfect and really channel the London thug, then it'll fall flat on it's face. Saying that....who's to say they'll even make Butcher and Hughie English and Scottish respectively, which would be a [frick]ing shame.
N3lLiel
N3lLiel - 4/6/2018, 3:37 AM
Huge fan of The Boys, loved Urban in Dredd but I really can't see him as Billy.
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