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Screenshot: Marvel StudiosGuillermo del Toro waxes lyrical about what he’d do with At the Mountains of Madness. The cast of Dune: The Sisterhood keeps growing. Plus, what’s to come on the series finale of Stargirl, and The Boys casts amysterious figure. Spoilers, go!At the Mountains of MadnessDuring a recent interview with IndieWire, Guillermo del Toro revealed he’s had conversations with Phil Tippet (Mad God) to rework his canceled adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness into a stop-motion animated…

Image: Prime VideoAmazon’s The Boys has always been audacious from the jump, and has never been afraid to put its cast of supers and normal pissed-off civilians through several wringers. Being an adult-oriented show, it loves itself some sex, and this week’s episode had plenty of that on hand, as the show tackled the long-awaited “Herogasm” arc from Darick Robertson and Garth Ennis’ much beloved comic book the show’s based on.In the comics, “Herogasm” is exactly what it implies: the world’s superheroes go to town on each…

Image: Prime VideoYou can say a lot of things about Amazon’s The Boys, but you can’t exactly call it subtle. The show, based on Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s acclaimed comics from Dynamite Entertainment, focuses on a group of corporate owned superheroes called The Seven, and a semi-covert group of average people named The Boys who’ve taken it upon themselves to kill the heroes. Across the show’s three seasons, it’s always been pretty upfront with the kind of satire it’s going for and who it tears down. In the case of…

Years before the TV series got the green light, there was the idea of making "The Boys" as a film. Adam McKay was one of the directors attached. The studios couldn't make it work in their minds, however, so the project never came to fruition. According to Darick Robertson, Simon Pegg already felt too old to play the part of Hughie back in 2009. The actor told Robertson that he felt the character was in his '20s and he was simply not the right age for the part. When the show finally got made, Simon Pegg…