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Jul 26, 2019 · The Name of the Game: Directed by Dan Trachtenberg. With Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty. When a Supe kills the love of his life, A/V salesman Hughie Campbell teams up with Billy Butcher, a vigilante hell-bent on punishing corrupt Supes -- and Hughie's life will never be the same again.
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- Action, Comedy, Crime
- Dan Trachtenberg
- 2019-07-26
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When a Supe kills the love of his life, A/V salesman Hughie Campbell teams up with Billy Butcher, a vigilante hell-bent on punishing corrupt Supes— and Hughie’s life will never be the same again.
Downtown, two kids discuss who would win in a fight between the Deep and Translucent. A large van transporting money, which has been hijacked, speeds towards the kids, who try to run, but are unsuccessful. Just before the van hits the kids, it is stopped by Queen Maeve, who fights off the assailants with Homelander's assistance. News agencies repor...
Locations
1. New York City, New York 1.1. Vought Tower 1.2. Bryman Audio-Visual 1.3. Gramercy Tavern (mentioned) 1.4. Times Square 1.5. Central Park 1.6. Rockefeller Center (mentioned) 2. Des Moines, Iowa 2.1. January Residence 3. Paris, France (mentioned) 4. Washington, D.C. (footage) 4.1. United States Capitol (footage) 5. Yonkers, New York (mentioned) 6. Baltimore, Maryland (mentioned) 7. Detroit, Michigan (mentioned)
Items
1. Translucent: Invisible Force 2 (poster) 2. The Deep: Rising Tide (poster) 3. T. J. Hooker 4. G-Men: World War (mentioned) 5. Speeding Bullet Ale 6. Frosted A-Trains 7. The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 8. Teddy Bear Nanny Cam 9. Black Noir: Insurrection (poster) 10. Compound V (mentioned)
Organizations
1. Vought International 1.1. Vought Studios 1.2. Vought News Network 1.3. The Seven 2. American Secure Transport 3. Sony (poster) 4. Federal Bureau of Investigation (mentioned) 5. Oceanland (billboard) 6. Samsung (billboard) 7. Red Bull (billboard) 8. Capes for Christ (mentioned) 8.1. Believe Expo (billboard) 1. NNC 2. Uber (mentioned)
The episode shares the same title as the first volume of the comic series. The show's poster is a recreation of the first book cover.In the comics, Starlight performs sexual acts with Black Noir, Homelander , and A-Train, in this episode, she only performs them with the Deep, and the rest of the Sevenare unaware.Production designer Dave Blass added a Latin inscription to the relief carving of the Sevenin the hallway. It reads: "Fiat justitia ruat caelum," which translates to: "Let justice be done though th...Translucent is an Eric Kripke creation, made up for the show, and does not appear in the comics version. In the comics, the original Seven include: Homelander, Queen Maeve, A-Train, The Deep, Black...According to an earlier draft of the script from October 15, 2017, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldbergwere supposed to direct this episode back then.For the shot where Queen Maeveshatters an armored truck, SPX filmed a real truck smashing into a steel pole that was later removed by VFX. Queen Maeve was then shot in front of a green screen in th...All the flying blood and guts, including the viscera that hits Hughie's face was 100% computer-generated. The shot took just under 8 months to complete.To pull off a fight sequence with Translucent, VFX had a stunt double in a green, VFX-tracking suit stand-in for the invisible superhero for the majority of the fight rehearsal and VFX reference. T...It is set in a universe where superpowered individuals, known as Supes, are portrayed as corrupt individuals instead of the heroes the general public believes they are. The episode was written by the series showrunner Eric Kripke and directed by Dan Trachtenberg.
Jul 26, 2019 · Hughie and Annie couldn’t be more different when it comes to personality types — he’s a ball of fear and she’s been a fearless hero since birth — but they are both violently exposed to the...
- Brian Tallerico
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Volume 1: The Name of the Game is the first volume of Wildstorm/Dynamite's The Boys that includes issues 1-6. An Englishman named Billy Butcher sits in the park with his pet bulldog, Terror, and, suddenly, a group of superheroes fly overhead.
Jul 26, 2019 · That reality would probably be a bit closer to what Amazon’s The Boys offers in its cynical, blood-soaked first episode, “The Name of the Game”: set in our current state of late-era capitalism, it presents a world where heroes have become a byproduct of society, rather than an embodiment of what it aspires to be.
Jul 26, 2019 · The Boys. “The Name of the Game” Available on Prime Video, Amazon Freevee. S1 E1: When a Supe kills the love of his life, A/V salesman Hughie Campbell teams up with Billy Butcher, a vigilante hell-bent on punishing corrupt Supes -- and Hughie’s life will never be the same again. Sci-Fi Jul 26, 2019 59 min. Information. Released. 2019. Run Time.
