“I think it just speaks to how important it is to do something that’s different and feels original,” Lenart says. “And I think when you look at our bright colors, our characters, comedy, all of that stands in stark comparison to all the dark, grungy, serious stuff that mostly gets made every year.” Source link
Eric Kripke is accustomed to the real world aligning with the version he writes, where men and women fly. So of course the first trailer for James Gunn’s “Superman” dropped on the day I spoke with the man behind “The Boys.” Why wouldn’t it? Gunn’s vision of America’s greatest comic book hero is wrapped in optimism. Homelander, played by Antony Starr, is the Man of Steel’s gaudy, cruel inverse, an all-American apple pie with radioactive razor blades baked into the filling. The regular guys standing against him — and for actual truth, justice and the ideal of the American way — are a grubby band held together by Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) and Marvin Milk (Laz Alonso). “The Boys” began as a best-selling comic by “Preacher” co-creators Darick Robertson and Garth Ennis; Kripke’s adaptation uses the comic’s Übermensch to show us how omnipotent men would actually behave, inspired by Donald Trump and the far right’s oligarchic power structure propping him up. Homelander is also a product — an enhanced being created in a lab run by Vought International, …
