{"id":13280,"date":"2011-03-29T19:10:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T00:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=13280"},"modified":"2014-05-09T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T15:58:00","slug":"crowe-in-discussions-for-mckays-the-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/29\/crowe-in-discussions-for-mckays-the-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe In Discussions For McKay&#8217;s THE BOYS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/RussellCrowe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13281\" title=\"RussellCrowe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/RussellCrowe-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Russell Crowe is reportedly in discussion to star in <strong>Step Brother<\/strong>&#8216;s director Adam McKay&#8217;s in development comic book adaptation <strong>The Boys<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Crowe would play Billy Butcher, the head of an elite CIA black ops group of misfits who are charged with policing the world&#8217;s superhero population and who often fulfill their duty with excessive force. The original comic series was created by writer Garth Ennis and artist Darick Robertson as a dark satire on standard superhero fare.<\/p>\n<p>McKay has previously stated that Simon Pegg is already attached to play another one of the Boys, Hughie. Pegg was the visual inspiration for the character in the comics.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, McKay is working on the screenplay for the project.<\/p>\n<p>Via It&#8217;s On The Grid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Russell Crowe is reportedly in discussion to star in Step Brother&#8216;s director Adam McKay&#8217;s in development comic book adaptation The Boys. Crowe would play Billy Butcher, the head of an elite CIA black ops group <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/29\/crowe-in-discussions-for-mckays-the-boys\/\" title=\"Crowe In Discussions For McKay&#8217;s THE BOYS\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[2718,914,306,1789],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-comicsandfilm","7":"tag-adam-mckay","8":"tag-garth-ennis","9":"tag-russell-crowe","10":"tag-the-boys"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13280"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=13280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}