It’s just been confirmed that The Boys spin-off, Gen V, has been canceled by Prime Video after two seasons. The news was expected, and it comes six months after Season 2 launched on the streamer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The writing was on the wall for the series when one of its leads,\u00a0Asa Germann (Sam Riordan), booked a\u00a0series regular role on another streaming show, Paramount+\u2019s Frisco King.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gen V was renewed for Season 2 halfway through Season 1. The tragic death of star\u00a0Chance Perdomo led to a significant delay in production after the second batch of episodes underwent major rewrites. Both seasons received positive reviews (Season 1 has 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, compared to Season 2’s 91%), but as is typical with streaming platforms, viewership numbers are unknown.<\/p>\n
Ultimately, Season 2 didn’t quite soar in the same way as its predecessor. Quickly moving on from the big status quo change promised in the finale, it also ended in a way that closed the door on the show’s leads remaining at\u00a0Godolkin University School of Crimefighting (the main premise of the series).\u00a0<\/p>\n
“While we wish we could keep the party going another season at Godolkin, we\u2019re committed to continuing the Gen V characters\u2019 stories in The Boys Season 5 and other VCU projects on the horizon,”\u00a0said Eric Kripke and Evan Goldberg, executive producers of the Vought Cinematic Universe, today. “You\u2019ll see them again.”<\/p>\n
Gen V concluded with the young Supes being recruited by Starlight. They’ve yet to show up in Season 5 of The Boys, though we’ve heard the heroes will have a relatively minor role.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With the bad news comes some good, as Vought Rising is now confirmed for a 2027 debut.\u00a0The Boys: Mexico also remains in active development.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s definitely going to be insane, but in a very different way,” Kripke recently said of Vought Rising. “The language of the show is much more film noir \u2014 L.A. Confidential, James Ellroy novels \u2014 with a gritty detective-story vibe that really fits the 1950s. But it\u2019s not that sterile version of the \u201950s you usually see. It\u2019s heroin dens, gay bars, violence…\u00a0and I really love that.”<\/p>\n
“It plays like a mystery that slowly unfolds, and we still get to do some really shocking stuff. One thing I love, which I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve talked about before, is that with The Boys, if you want to use a famous person or character, you often need permission \u2014 especially if you\u2019re going to say bad things about them. That\u2019s not necessarily the case when someone is dead.”<\/p>\n
“So, because Vought Rising is set in the 1950s, we\u2019re able to bring in real-life figures like J. Edgar Hoover, Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan, and have them interact with our characters,” he added. “That\u2019s been really fun.”<\/p>\n
Stay tuned for updates on The Boys franchise as we have them.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s just been confirmed that The Boys spin-off, Gen V, has been canceled by Prime Video after two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,20108,43786,43787],"class_list":["post-626349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-gen-v","tag-the-boys","tag-vought-rising"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}