Released in 2019, The Boys is clearly one of Prime Video’s biggest hits. And the cult series seems very far from wanting to stop any time soon, to the delight of fans.
In any case, this is what the showrunner of The Boys, Eric Kripke, indicated. In 2020, he planned a story that he estimated could last five seasons. Four years later, his plans seem to have changed greatly, in a good way. Which is certainly not to displease Prime Video and fans of the series.
The Boys won’t be hanging up its bloody superhero cape anytime soon
Prime Video has no shortage of quality programs (and others that are much less good either…). But few have reached the level of popularity of The Boys. The adaptation of the comics by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson has been delighting the platform and fans for five years now, without any sign of fatigue. Its season 4 is also impatiently awaited on July 18, and a season 5 is already in the works.
For Eric Kripke in 2020, this should have been The Boys’ last. He then stated the following: “ For my last series, Supernatural, I said that five seasons would be enough to tell the story I had in mind. And then this crap lasted fifteen! So I’m going to shut up for this one. But from a creative standpoint, I think five is a good number “.
The showrunner of the present is now certain: five seasons will not be enough. “ No one in all of human history was as wrong as I was in speculating about how many seasons this series would need. So I’m not going to make the same mistake again. If there was a Guinness World Record for the stupidest person to estimate how long their show would last, there would be a photo of me “. In any case, Eric Kipke clearly does not lack humor, and therefore reassures fans about the future of The Boys. We will thus still have many opportunities to find Butcher, Hughie, the Cream, the Frenchman, Kimiko, Starlight, Homelander and a whole clique of characters as crazy as they are endearing, guts and guts included on Prime Video.