Season four of The Boys just ended, but that didn’t stop the cast from storming Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con. And while the mothership series waxed poetic about Homelander drinking breast milk, among other things, Jensen Ackles broke the news in person that he and Aya Cash, who joined by video, would produce and star in a prequel series called Vought Rising.
According to Deadline, Paul Grellong will serve as showrunner while Eric Kripke, the creative force behind the Amazon MGM Studios franchise, serves as Executive Producer.
“We are excited to bring you the next deranged series from the world of The Boys,” Kripke and Grellong said (via Deadline) before lifting the veil on the time period and premise of the prequel.
“It’s a twisted murder mystery about the origins of Vought in the 1950s, the early exploits of Soldier Boy, and the diabolical maneuvers of a Supe known to fans as Stormfront, who was then going by the name Clara Vought,” they said.“We cannot wait to blow your minds and trouble your souls with this salacious, grisly saga drenched in blood and Compound V.”
This prequel is just the latest installment in The Boys universe. There’s the mothership show, of course, as well as the animated series The Boys Presents: Diabolical and the collegiate spinoff, Gen V, which was picked up for a second season. Another series, The Boys: Mexico, is also in production.
