The Boys Spinoff: Updates, Release Date, Cast & Story Details
Here's everything we know about The Boys spin-off series. Although the idea for another Supe series had been in the works for a while, in September 2020, it was announced that Amazon was fast-tracking the spin-off of The Boys, undoubtedly hoping to capitalize on the original's success. Season 2 of The Boys was the most-watched global launch of an Amazon original series ever, doubling its season 1 audience in just the first two weeks. The series, a subversive take on the superhero genre, The Boys was created by Eric Kripke and is based on the comics of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson.
Season 3 of The Boys began filming in Toronto in February and is expected to wrap sometime in September. Season 2 ended with Nazi Stormfront's plans for ethnic cleansing derailed when she was reduced to a stump by Ryan, Vought Industries and The Seven had survived another PR nightmare, Homelander was completely unhinged, Billy Butcher was mourning the death of Becca, all of The Boys had been cleared of criminal charges, and Hughie Campbell was going to work for congresswoman Victoria Neuman at the Office of Supe Affairs. Fans have even more reason to be excited for season 3 with Supernatural's Jensen Ackles joining the cast as Soldier Boy (the original Homelander), the return of season 2 fan-favorite Love Sausage, and the inclusion of a raunchy Herogasm story arc that could introduce a controversial new villain.
There's no better time to introduce a spin-off series into the mix with mania surrounding The Boys at a fever pitch. The still-untitled project has the potential to become another jewel in Amazon Prime's crown, and details about the planned upcoming series continue to emerge. Here's everything we know about the highly-anticipated spin-off so far.
The Boys executive producer Craig Rosenberg, who wrote the season 2 episode, "Over the Hill With the Swords of a Thousand Men," is penning the pilot as well as serving as showrunner and executive producer along with fellow The Boys EPs Kripke, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver, Neal H. Moritz, Pavun Shetty, Ken Levin, and Jason Netter as well as Ennis and Robertson. On March 11, THR reported that Amazon was getting closer to formally greenlighting the spin-off and that Lizze Broadway (The Rookie, Splitting Up Together) and Jaz Sinclair (The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) have been cast in leading roles. Broadway's character is a college student/superhero named Emma, and Sinclair will play a similar character named Marie.
Amazon announced it had ordered eight episodes of The Boys on November 8, 2017, and the series released on Amazon Prime on July 26, 2019. Even without the pandemic slowing things down, there was a 14-month lapse between seasons 1 and 2 of the hit series, with season 2 premiering on July 23, 2020. Even if Amazon orders episodes of the show that will expand the Vought universe in the next few months, filming won't likely begin until 2022 after production on season 3 of The Boys concludes. Eager fans will probably be waiting until 2023 for the spin-off to air.
The Boys spin-off will be set on a college campus attended exclusively by Supes. In a 2020 interview with TheWrap, Kripke said the show will be loosely based on the G-Men, a parody of the X-Men from The Boys comics: a super team assembled by pedophile John Godolkin. "Part of the G-Men is there’s sort of an educational, college experience. And we just used that as a jumping-off point, kind of similar to The Boys, where we sort of take an initial notion, and then we are going to run with it in our own weird direction,” Kripke said. The series looks to be part Hunger Games part sex comedy with an infusion of the same satire that has made The Boys so popular. Kripke hopes that the series will be "one of the most realistic college shows anyone's made." The spin-off will exist in the same universe as its predecessor, with no current crossover plans.