Out today on Prime Video is the aptly titled “The Boys Presents: Diabolical,“ an animated anthology spinoff of the popular series based on Garth Ennis’ violent comics.
The short, eight-episode anthology collects diverse animation styles and stories from within the violent universe to enhance the unpredictable storytelling, gags, gore, and fun (our review). Executive producers Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen kicked the series off with a short they penned, “Laser Baby’s Day Out,” directed by Crystal Chesney-Thompson and Derek Thompson.
In a recent chat with Goldberg and Rogen, the pair revealed the inspiration behind their episode and its classic, Chuck Jones-like animation style. Goldberg said, “For last few years, have really wanted to do some dialogue-free comedy; just tell a story without dialogue. When we realized that we could do an “Animatrix” style TV show out of “The Boys” Universe, we just instantly came to this idea. It is heavily based on the movie Baby’s Day Out and the start of Roger Rabbit. That animation is the direction we were going in the whole time because it just played best to the comment and the gag in relation to the violence.”
It’s not the first time the pair brought up the “Animatrix” concerning this spinoff, either. When “Diabolical” was first announced, Goldberg and Rogen told IndieWire, “Ever since we saw the animated film ‘The Animatrix,’ a series of short animated films set in the universe of ‘The Matrix,’ we’ve wanted to rip it off. Today that dream has come true.”
When asked if working on “Diabolical” lived up to their “Animatrix” dream, Rogen answered without hesitation, “I’d say it has lived up to this dream.”
Goldberg added, “It is a literal dream come true, and the good people at Amazon Prime let us do exactly what we wanted. We got our friends and told them they could do whatever they wanted, and they got to do exactly what they wanted. It’s been a real win-win situation for everyone.”
The carte blanche approach resulted in a wildly entertaining, easily digestible spinoff that features everything from heartfelt (Andy Samberg’s “John and Sun-hee”) to wacky (Awkwafina’s “BFFs”). Goldberg and Rogen’s hyper gory slapstick story based on classic animation kickstarts it all.
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