By Chris Evangelista/April 6, 2018 8:30 am EST
Urban will play Billy Butcher, the leader of a team of agents who monitor fame-hungry superheroes. THR says the show’s take on the character is being described as someone “mysterious and brutal with a personal but secret agenda” who “approaches Hughie (Jack Quaid), claiming to be a shadowy government operative. Butcher capitalizes on Hughie’s rage over his girlfriend Robin’s (uncast) accidental death at the hands of Superhero A-Train (Jessie T. Usher) and enlists Hughie as part of his plan to bring down the superhero system.”
Supernatural creator Eric Kripke will serve as showrunner on the series, which will be directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. The series is an adaptation of the Garth Ennis/Darick Robertson comic with the following description:
I’ve seen some people suggest Artist Darick Robertson drew Billy Butcher to resemble actor Vinnie Jones – an actor you might remember from various Guy Ritchie movies, and also X-Men: The Last Stand, where he had the opportunity to make audiences groan by shouting, “I’m the Juggernaut, bitch!” Robertson, however, based the character’s look off of Robert Shaw, of Jaws and The Sting fame. The only actor Robertson directly referenced for his art is Simon Pegg, with Pegg’s blessing.
