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THE BOYS IS SERVING UP EVEN MORE delicious, raunchy, hyper-violent, gory fun – but in animated form. The Boys Presents: Diabolical, an anthology spin-off, consists of eight episodes running at 12 to 14 minutes each. And, as you might expect, Diabolical’s writers crapped all over the Hollywood rulebook when telling their stories.
“Some of the stuff we were discussing back and forth, in the early development, I was like, ‘Really? We can do that? Okay,‘” showrunner Simon Racioppa tells SFX. “[The Boys creator] Eric Kripke was just into it. All he wanted was for it to be true to character and true to the world. If we did those two things, he was pretty good with everything else.”
To bring Diabolical to life, executive producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg contacted friends or people they knew were fans of The Boys. The show boasts an all-star roster of writers, including Rogen and Goldberg, Justin Roiland and Ben Bayouth, Garth Ennis, Awkwafina, Andy Samberg, Aisha
Tyler and Racioppa himself. Then there’s the voice cast, which is a mix of familiar The Boys talents and interesting newcomers. Among them are Antony Starr, Chace Crawford, Simon Pegg, Elisabeth Shue, Christian Slater, Kieran Culkin, Awkwafina, Kumail Nanjiani, Michael Cera, Jason Isaacs, Kevin Smith, Samberg and more…
This story is from the March 2022 edition of SFX.
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