Could The Boys be getting their own Avengers-style blockbuster moment?
After showrunner Eric Kripke teased his plans for the upcoming fifth and final season, Mother’s Milk actor Laz Alonso revealed he’s been “unsuccessfully pitching” a feature film to wrap up the Prime Video series.
“Like, make the last episode of season 5 a cliffhanger and announce the film that we’ve been filming since the beginning of the series, pretty much,” Alonso said during a live taping of the Happy Sad Confused podcast with his co-stars. “But [Kripke] always somehow gets out of that one.”
Would that mean a full-length version of the Dawn of the Seven movie-within-a-movie that was previously teased on the show? Since Kripke has already revealed he has “an ending in mind” for The Boys, it’s unlikely.
Last month, Kripke confirmed that “season 5 will be the final season,” adding: “Always my plan, I just had to be cagey till I got the final OK from Vought. Thrilled to bring the story to a gory, epic, moist climax. Watch season 4 in 2 DAYS, cause the end has begun!”
During the cast’s Happy Sad Confused appearance, Homelander actor Antony Starr explained that Kripke “started the show saying that it was always in his head to go five seasons,” after the showrunner told fans back in 2020 that his “rough idea” for the show was “five seasons total.”
“I think everyone wants to go out on a strong note, and I think there’s nothing worse — and I’ve been involved in a show that did this, it was fucking horrible — you do that last season and it’s shit,” added Starr. “And you get remembered very poorly and you have to kind of wear that. I like to think that we will go out on a really strong note and I think we all deserve that.”
New episodes of The Boys season 4 are available to stream Thursdays on Prime Video.