The Boys creator Eric Kripke explains how Gen V season two sets up series finale
With the series set to conclude next year, The Boys creator Eric Kripke has teased that Gen V season two will set up the franchise's finale.
The Boys creator Eric Kripke has detailed how the second season of Gen V will set up the series finale.
The Prime Video superhero show is set to conclude with its fifth and final season at some point next year, and the 51-year-old writer has now explained that the next instalment of the spin-off programme Gen V will show how characters like Antony Starr’s Homelander, Erin Moriarty’s Starlight and Chace Crawford’s The Deep have evolved since their last appearance in season four.
Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, Kripke said: “As season four of The Boys ended, Homelander sort of took over the country, so this is really the audience’s first glimpse of how the world has changed.
“Gen V season two really picks up the world from where Boys season four ended. You see how it evolves, you see what Starlight’s new role is, for example; where Stan Edgar is, where Sage is and where The Deep is - he’s somewhere stupid because that’s where The Deep goes.
“So we get to play with these characters and sort of position them on the chess board where we need them, so that when season five begins they’re where we need them to be.”
Kripke teased he is currently editing the final episodes of The Boys season five, and has received positive feedback from those he has shown it to.
He said: “I just showed people the series finale, which they appeared to not be horrified by it and they seemed to like it which is great.
“Obviously it’s really hard to land the plane and I’m anxious that we’ll be able to do it, but so far the signs seem positive.”
Gen V showrunner Michele Fazekas added that “diving into the last episodes, there’s going to be some team-ups, I will say”.
The Boys, which also stars Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Laz Alonso, Karen Fukuhara and Tomer Capone, follows a group of misfits as they attempt to bring down The Seven - a team of superheroes who are not as super as they seem.
After The Boys concludes, the franchise will be expanded with spin-offs like The Boys: Mexico and Vought Rising, which will explore the sinister superhero organisation’s origins in the 1950s.
Kripke revealed Vought Rising - which will see the return of Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles) and Stormfront (Aya Cash) - is currently shooting.
He said: “It’s a blast because sort of at its heart, The Boys is a film noir kind of detective story - it’s like scuzzy good guys and wealthy bad guys and it’s got a lot of that DNA, going back to the comics.
“So to be able to go right to the source of like trench coats and feds and G-men and superheroes and just be able to live in that world, but to do it in a world that is very Boys-ian and gritty and heroin and hookers, it’s just a really cool, fun playground.”
