Matt Manfredi and Phil Hay will adapt Garth Ennis' comic "The Boys" for Sony Pictures and Original Films says The Hollywood Reporter.

The comic follows the adventures of 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.

Neal H. Moritz will produce. Manfredi and Hay also adapted the comic "R.I.P.D." which is in develoament at Universal.