Oh No, Garth Ennis’ Grossest Story Is Becoming A Movie

Comic book writer Garth Ennis made a name for himself by scripting the most violent and depraved comics in the business, yet that hasn’t kept him from achieving Hollywood success with several adaptions of his books out there, most notably The Boys. You give a man like this that kind of power, you know what you get eventually? A Crossed movie.

I’m sure this is up for debate, but out of everything Ennis has ever cooked up, nothing is more demented than Crossed, a post-apocalyptic tale about a group of strangers who are running around, looking for a way to escape the infected hordes. It’s not EXACTLY a zombie story…it works like one, but instead of being shambling, groaning, slow-moving corpses, the Crossed are people who have lost all their inhibitions. They’re crazed psychopaths who will murder anyone they see, and that’s the best you can hope for because they do far worse things to those they keep alive.

Ennis’ ten-issue tale was garnished with covers that depicted the Crossed doing things like eating live babies (these events were usually sold in opaque bags to shield family eyes). We have no idea how a faithful adaption of Crossed would manage to get an R rating. We’d also say we have no idea who would want to watch it, but the Terrifier movies have tons of fans, so what do we know. Then again has Art ever eaten a baby?

The Crossed movie will star Devin Druid (13 Reasons Why) and Ash Santos (American Horror Story) as Stan and Cindy, the leaders of the survivors, alongside Bob Morley (The 100) as Randall, Steven Hack (Little Death) as Geoff, Ethan Jones Romero (Law & Order) as Thomas, Chido Nwokocha (Top Gun: Maverick) as Kitrick, Spenser Granese (Dope Thief) as Brett, Kyla Hee (Psychosis) as Kelly, Ana Mulvoy Ten (American Crime) as Sheena and Lorenzo Ross (no previous gig) as Patrick. It will be directed by Rob Jabbaz and currently does not have a release date.