The Boys Star Wants Season 5 to Set Up a Franchise-Ending Movie
It’s coming Homelander.
The Boys TV series ends with Season 5 — that much showrunner Eric Kripke and Prime Video have confirmed. But could it also tease a franchise-ending The Boys movie?
That’s what Laz Alonso, who plays The Boys team leader Mother’s Milk, wants, although his attempts to convince Kripke to make it happen appear to have failed so far.
Speaking on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Alonso said he’s “unsuccessfully pitching” a The Boys film to wrap up the series.
“Make the last episode of Season 5 a cliffhanger and announce the film that we’ve been filming since the beginning of the series,” Alonso said. “But [Kripke] always somehow gets out of that one.”
"I'm down!" Homelander actor Antony Starr responded.
It’s fun to imagine what a The Boys movie might look like. Perhaps it would involve an Avengers-style superhero and supervillain battle with The Boys themselves caught in the middle?
Or perhaps it would be more understated, instead focusing on what happens to the world and the characters following the events of The Boys Season 5. For a show that revolves around parodying real-life events, including the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a mega teamup might perhaps be off the cards. After all, The Boys has its own Avengers movie within the show: Dawn of the Seven.
Kripke announced Season 5 would be the last for The Boys last month, ahead of the start of Season 4. “Always my plan, I just had to be cagey till I got the final okay from Vought,” Kripke said at the time.
The Boys began in 2019 and was an instant smash hit for Prime Video, with its super gory action and dark humor delivering a standout satire of the superhero movies and TV shows of our time. It’s based on the comic book of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, and follows the eponymous team of vigilantes who work to bring down a group of supervillains led by an anti-Superman character called Homelander.
In addition to the main series, The Boys has inspired two spinoffs: animated series The Boys Presents: Diabolical, as well as Gen V, which has been renewed for Season 2.
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