As The Boys put together for the top with a fifth and last season, it’s only the start for Soldier Boy, whose origin story is but to return.
Jensen Ackles, who originated the position of the cryogenically frozen early Supe in Season 3 of the Prime Video collection, will reprise the character in Vought Rising, just lately teasing that he’s “the top dog” within the prequel collection.
“Listen, it’s going to feel familiar, as far as the format of it all, because I think that’s taking what really works with The Boys and trying to do something a little bit different with it, certainly as a period piece in the 1950s,” he defined to Collider. “But I’ll speak personally. The Soldier Boy aspect of it is I’m used to playing and we’re used to seeing Soldier Boy in modern times, but he is a, I like to say, analog man in a digital world, so he’s a fish out of water with what we know of him now.”
Ackles continued, “Now we’re getting to see him be relevant, getting to see him in his actual environment where he feels like this is where he belongs. He’s the top dog. But you also get to see the experience as to why he ended up the way he did. We get to kind of peel back the layers of what truly happened in that time.”
The actor additionally famous that “the intent is to do multiple seasons,” including, “When they pitched it, they were like, ‘Hey, we’re thinking about doing this prequel thing, going back to the 1950s with Soldier Boy.’ I don’t think I let them finish the sentence before I was like, ‘Yes!’ But I know that the intent is to have it be a multi-season show.”
Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy in ‘The Boys (Jasper Savage/Amazon/Courtesy Everett Collection)
In the fifth and last season of The Boys, premiering April 8 on Prime Video, the world utterly topic to Homelander’s (Antony Starr) erratic, egomaniacal whims. With Hughie (Jack Quaid), Mother’s Milk (Laz Alonso) and Frenchie (Tomer Capone) are imprisoned in a ‘Freedom Camp’, Annie (Erin Moriarty) struggles to mount a resistance towards the overwhelming Supe power. Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara) is nowhere to be discovered. But when Butcher (Karl Urban) reappears, prepared and prepared to make use of a virus that may wipe all Supes off the map, he units in movement a series of occasions that may ceaselessly change the world and everybody in it.
Paul Grellong serves as showrunner on Vought Rising, with Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal govt producing The Boys: Mexico, from Blue Beetle author Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer. Prime’s faculty spin-off Gen V just lately concluded its second season, which units up The Boys finale. The animated The Boys Presents: Diabolical shouldn’t be more likely to get a second season.
