Columbia Pictures has acquired the rights to indie comicbook "
The Boys" and will develop a feature adaptation along with producer Neal H. Moritz and his Sony-based Original Film banner.
Created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, the contemporary-set comicbook series follows a CIA squad, known informally as "the boys," whose job is to keep watch on the proliferation of superheroes and, if necessary, intimidate or eliminate them.