Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. On the surface this project, HENCH, based off of a graphic novel by Adam Beechen and Manny Bello, seems like familiar territory for Danny McBride, who has just been attached to the film version according to Michael Fleming at Variety.
EASTBOUND AND DOWN is probably my favorite thing to appear on television since LOST began. In that show McBride plays a baseball star who loses his mojo and has to return home and takes a job as a PE teacher.
In HENCH McBride will play a football star who suffers a career-ending injury and is forced out. He ends up taking a job as a henchman to a super villain.
McBride will be scripting alongside Shawn Harwell who also worked on EASTBOUND AND DOWN. If the humor is as fucked up as that show then I don't really give a shit about the small similarities in plot. I'm not at all familiar with the graphic novel, but I'd imagine the lead isn't going to be as hilariously ignorant as Kenny Powers. It sounds to me like the comedy should come from McBride's character's immersion into this bizarre new world.
In fact, reading up on the original story it seems to have a lot to say about the superhero/villain dynamic, showing that the superheroes might be closer to the supervillains than they may think.
McBride is shooting the amazing-sounding YOUR HIGHNESS with David Gordon Green and will come back for Season 2 of EASTBOUND AND DOWN before heading off for this one, so we have some time.
What do you folks think?
-Quint
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