Looking to stretch their big screen comic book adaptations beyond Marvel Comics, Paramount is developing writer Garth Ennis and illustrator Darick Robertson's creator-owned, 2006 Dynamite Entertainment 'mature' graphic novel series "The Boys", with Adam McKay attached to direct.
The series is set between the years 2006-2008 in a world where superheroes exist, but corrupted by celebrity status, often engaging in illegal, immoral and reckless behavior, "...compromising the safety of the world."
Because of this, a CIA squad, called 'The Boys', artificially super-powered by the 'Compound V' drug 'Blue', is charged with monitoring and controlling the situation :
"...'Billy Butcher', learning of a presidential directive charging the CIA with monitoring all super-heroes, gets the backing required to reform 'The Boys', a black ops team designed to police the super-hero community, bringing together 'Mother's Milk', the 'Frenchman', the 'Female of the Species' and Scottish conspiracy theorist 'Wee Hughie'..."
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