The Boys' Simon Pegg Recasting Is Finally Fixing An Original Hughie Issue
Casting Simon Pegg as Hughie in The Boys: Diabolical finally does what Amazon's live-action adaptation never could. An 8-part anthology, The Boys: Diabolical brings Compound-V insanity into animation. Most episodes exist within Amazon's continuity, but to the delight of long-time fans, The Boys: Diabolical also includes a story in the style of Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's original comics, set inside the source material's canon.
This nostalgic effort features a cameo from Hughie Campbell, but rather than Jack Quaid playing the character — as he does in The Boys — the voice belongs to Simon Pegg. The Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Star Trek actor is no stranger to The Boys, having portrayed Hughie's dad in season 1, and it's amusing/touching that The Boys: Diabolical casts Hughie's live-action father as the voice of cartoon Hughie himself — a neat thread of familial continuity. However, the true meaning behind Pegg's The Boys: Diabolical casting calls back to Ennis and Robertson's comics, and delivers on a promise Amazon's live-action series sadly couldn't.
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Drawing up initial designs for Billy Butcher's crew in the mid-2000s, Darick Robertson based Hughie's comic appearance on Simon Pegg, who had recently found worldwide fame for throwing vinyl at zombies and badly jumping over fences. The resemblance isn't exactly subtle, and others might've been tempted to release the lawyers, but Pegg got a kick out of having a comic book-a-like, and even wrote a foreword for The Boys' first trade paperback release. Had a TV series happened in 2006, Pegg likely would've been cast as live-action Hughie. By the time someone finally got around to
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