Eric Kripke Assures ‘The Boys’ is Nonetheless Getting a Mexico Spinoff

Prime Video’s been feeding superhero audiences with The Boys and its Gen V spinoff, however the franchise has different reveals within the works. Up on the docket is one set in Mexico that’s gone quiet for the reason that preliminary reveal again in 2023.

However in line with Boys showrunner Eric Kripke, that collection stays alive and kicking. In a latest Collider speak, he promised the present is in energetic growth and is “very cool. […] I feel the script is nice, and the world itself meets the usual of all our spinoffs.” He additional teased it as providing one thing completely different from the same old proceedings present in its siblings reveals: “It’s our world, however a very completely different tone, and it’s tremendous enjoyable. Gael [Garcia Bernal] and Diego [Luna] are govt producers, which is wonderful and [they’re] actually engaged with it.”

Kripke’s beforehand talked about his goals of retaining The Boys franchise alive with out making it the butt of its personal jokes. They’re utilizing different franchises at reference factors, observing the locations the place they’ve failed and succeeded, and guaranteeing any extension covers territory the opposite reveals can’t: the overall plot of The Boys: Mexico is correct there within the title, whereas Gen V is about in a superhero school and the upcoming Vought Rising is a prequel set within the Fifties. As for Kripke’s point out of Mexico having a “completely diffferent” tone, we’ll have to attend and see what which means.

Whereas we wait to listen to extra about The Boys: Mexico, we have now Gen V coming again on September 17, adopted by the ultimate season of The Boys in 2026 and Vought Rising presumably someday that very same yr.

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