It would appear that Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are the people to go to if you want to actually put an adaptation of a Garth Ennis comic on to screens. Following their success with Preacher, their collaboration with Supernatural creator Eric Kripke to bring The Boys is springing to life at Amazon.
The Boys, which Ennis created alongside Darick Robertson, is set in a world where superheroes are a widely-mistrusted annoyance – "absolute scum" in Ennis' own words – leading to the creation of the only marginally preferable anti-cape vigilante group of the title. Membership includes murderous black-ops marine Billie Butcher; Gallic madman The Frenchman; super-strong psychopath mute The Female (Of The Species); and the incongruously decent – but psychologically scarred – Wee Hughie.
Adam McKay was in discussions to make a film of the comic for Sony back in 2010, but that didn't go very far, possibly because of the violent, graphic content and the fact that Deadpool hadn't yet cracked the door open again for harder-edged comic book adaptations. Rogen, Goldberg and Kripke have been involved in trying to turn the idea into a small screen series since at least 2015, following their deal for Preacher at Sony's TV arm, and had struck a deal at US cable channel Cinemax which didn't end up generating anything. According to Deadline, the show has been in development for a few months at Amazon (which carries Preacher outside the States) and the streaming service has now ordered an initial run of eight episodes. Prolific producer Neal H. Moritz is also involved, with Kripke running the writers' room and Rogen and Goldberg on to direct at least one episode.