Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson‘s The Boys comic put out by Dynamite, which is scheduled for a big screen release in 2011, might have a director. While it was originally reported by Collider that Samuel Bayer wanted to adapt the comic, they are now reporting that they have two sources that say that Adam McKay is in talks with Sony Pictures about directing the film.

Will this be a good move considering McKay’s previous work? Anchorman and the upcoming The Other Guys being a completely different style of film it will definitely make an interesting experiment. The Boys will definitely be a departure for him, but McKay has made it known that he has wanted to get his hands on a comic book movie for quite a while now. It is also immensely intriguing that McKay would choose such a polarizing comic book to start with. The Boys is more of a deconstruction of superheroes than a normal comics story.

Another perspective is how McKay would handle the graphic violence in this story well. Ennis’s series is one of the most graphic and violent comics out there. We saw this somewhat handled in this year’s movie Kick-Ass, but even then The Boys could turn out to be a bigger challenge. It seems that Samuel Bayer, who directed A Nightmare on Elm Street‘s remake, would have been a closer style match but he has come out saying that the studio is more interested in McKay.

What do you think about the direction of The Boys movie? Do you think it will translate at all to the big screen?