EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios is continuous its relationship with The Boys creator Garth Ennis as it’s in improvement on a characteristic adaptation of Freddie the Repair, based mostly on the Hollywood horror-noir comedian collection from The Boys and Preacher creator. Considered one of Them Days director Lawrence Lamont is on board to helm.
Freddie the Repair is the inaugural launch from Ninth Circle, the creator-owned horror imprint at Picture Comics.
Kimberly Steward and Alex Foster will produce the movie for Okay Interval Media, alongside Kenya Barris for Khalabo Ink Society. Kalen Egan & Travis Sentell are writing the screenplay. Ennis, Jeremy Allen, Lamont, Adam Glass, Michael Bogner and David Stone will govt produce.
The movie will observe Freddie, a fixer to Hollywood’s supernatural elite, a person with an virtually magical present for making incriminating issues disappear.
The collection was launched by Ninth Circle in December 2024 and set the template for the imprint: an outsized, complete-in-one-volume story constructed to face by itself. Illustrated by Mike Perkins, the sold-out title was met with essential and shopper acclaim, drawing robust notices throughout the comics press. It established Ninth Circle — based by Ennis alongside fellow creators Ram V, Marguerite Bennett, Joe Pruett and Glass, with Steward as lead investor and Okay Interval Media partnering on choose titles — as a vacation spot for stand-alone style storytelling. It’s the first Ninth Circle property to maneuver to display.
Lamont most not too long ago directed the Sony Footage comedy Considered one of Them Days starring Keke Palmer and H.E.R. Egan and Sentell’s current credit embrace Philip Okay. Dick’s Electrical Goals and The Lunar Chronicles, set for launch in 2028.
Up subsequent for Barris and Khalabo Ink Society are a number of high-profile initiatives in numerous phases of improvement together with Teyana Taylor’s directorial debut characteristic Get Lite starring Storm Reid, and a documentary characteristic exploring the life and profession of multi-Grammy-winning artist Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds.
Ninth Circle is represented by David Stone of TFC Administration and Schreck Rose. Lamont is represented by WME, ColorCreative, and Johnson, Shapiro, Slewett, & Kole. Egan and Sentell are represented by CAA and Untitled Leisure. Ennis is represented by Ken F. Levin of NightSky Leisure.
