Is the world ready to see John C. Reilly in spandex? The Other Guys director Adam McKay is reported to be in talks to direct an adaptation of the über-violent Garth Ennis comic, The Boys. The comic follows a secret CIA team that monitors and punishes hard partying, out-of-control superheroes.

McKay is a strange pick for this dark and gruesome material, so I would expect him to add a comedic element that makes the film more family-friendly. Like Will Ferrell running around naked except for a Superman cape. He can study my neighbor’s kid for the role. Seriously, though. Put some pants on that kid. He’s six. (EW)

Ryan Reynolds is going to die. It’s a fact of life that we all need to be prepared for. I feel like you’re at an age where you’re mature enough to handle that news. I’m talking about in the movies only of course. The real Ryan Reynolds will never die. He will be around forever. You hear me God?

Producer Neal Moritz announced that Reynolds will follow Change-Up with a starring role in the upcoming adaptation of the graphic novel R.I.P.D.. In the film, he will play a recently-deceased cop who joins the Rest In Peace Department – which is the police department for the dead, naturally. Reynold’s dead partner in the buddy cop film is described as a gunslinger who’s been dead for hundreds of years. I take that to mean he wasn’t that good of a gunslinger. (Collider)