THE BOYS Showrunner Teases What We Can Expect from College-Set Spin-Off
Mike Sprague
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Amazon’s hit adaptation of Garth Ennis’ The Boys is getting a college-set spinoff, and today, showrunner Eric Kripke teased what we can expect from it.
He tells THR: “First, it didn’t come from Amazon telling us, ‘Hey, you’re a hit, you must do a lot more of the same.’ It came from me, [The Boys executive producers] Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and Craig Rosenberg just talking. We stumbled on to this corner of the universe that we really loved and we took it to them.”
Kripke continues: “So it’s a college show. It’s a Vought-owned college where young kids with powers are trained as to how to be proper superheroes, all leading to an NBA-style draft at the end of the year. It’s sort of like a college sports show meets Fame, because they also have to go to acting classes and marketing classes. It’s going to be a very character-driven, hopefully incredibly realistic, college show.”
Sounds like fun to me!
The Boys season 3 will begin filming in early next year with Supernatural star Jensen Ackles as the Captain America parody Soldier Boy. In the meantime, remember, the first two seasons are streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
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