Sumith Prasad
Amazon Prime Video has renewed the superhero series ‘The Boys’ for a fifth season. The filming of the upcoming installment will start in Toronto, Ontario, in November 2024. Eric Kripke, who developed the project based on the comic book of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, continues to serve as the showrunner.
The fourth season ends with Billy Butcher killing Victoria Neuman with his superpowers to steal a virus. Meanwhile, Homelander rises to new heights as Steven Calhoun swears in as the President of the United States and expresses his allegiance to the former. The reign of martial law is declared in the country for Homelander and his army of superhumans to establish their dominance. Even though the Vought troopers capture The Boys, Annie escapes, and Butcher disappears with the virus. Ultimately, Homelander learns the location of Soldier Boy from Calhoun.
In the fifth season, we will see the relationship between Homelander and Soldier Boy explored in detail. “He [Soldier Boy] is going to be in Season 5 quite a lot. We want him to be a big character. There’s a lot of good father-son emotion between him and Homelander that we never really got a chance to play that we’re really interested in,” Kripke told Variety about Soldier Boy, one of the protagonists in the upcoming prequel series ‘Vought Rising,’ alongside Stormfront.
As far as the cast is concerned, we can expect most of the regulars, including Karl Urban (William “Billy” Butcher), Jack Quaid (Hugh “Hughie” Campbell Jr.), Antony Starr (John/Homelander), Erin Moriarty (Annie January/Starlight), Jessie T. Usher (Reggie Franklin/A-Train), Laz Alonso (Marvin T. “Mother’s” Milk/MM), and Chace Crawford (Kevin Moskowitz/The Deep), in season 5. Jensen Ackles is also confirmed to return as Soldier Boy as a series regular. Claudia Doumit’s involvement is uncertain following the death of Victoria Neuman.
Jared Padalecki, who previously starred in Kripke’s ‘Supernatural,’ will also star in an undisclosed role. “I have been talking to Jared; we’ve been texting back and forth. I don’t know yet if it’ll be a one-episode guest spot or something bigger. We’re still trying to figure out what would be the best role for him. But I’m gonna bring in Jared. Everyone says you’re collecting your ‘Supernatural’ Pokémon, but the truth is, I love him, and you try to work with people that you love, and it makes the job more fun. And I just love those guys,” he added.
Toronto hosted the shooting of the show’s previous seasons earlier. ‘Suits,’ ‘Black Mirror,’ ‘What We Do in the Shadows,’ ‘Reacher,’ ‘Wednesday,’ ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ ‘Schitt’s Creek,’ and ‘The Expanse’ are some of the other popular projects filmed in the city.
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