Simon Pegg joins Amazon's The Boys

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When Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson started publishing their uber-violent superhero fantasy The Boys back in 2006, they chose to make the sort of Hollywood called shot that’s paid off so well for Marvel and Samuel L. Jackson: Basing their main character, “Wee” Hughie, off of then-semi-known Shaun Of The Dead star Simon Pegg. On the one hand, that decision totally paid off (in so far as Pegg is now an internationally known face and name), but it also meant that, by the time a screen adaptation of the project was finally in production, he was a bit too experienced to play the black ops team’s youngest recruit.