The boys are back in town, one last time.
The first trailer for The Boys arrived Saturday at CCXP in São Paulo — and things look more dire than ever for Billy Butcher and his crew, who after the events of the season four finale, are living in an America under a Homelander dictatorship. (And almost as bad, at least for this world’s journalists, Ashley Barrett appears to Homelander’s White House press secretary.)
“You wouldn’t be the first throwing your life away in a war, but you would be the first saving the world doing it,” Karl Urban’s Butcher tells his crew in the trailer.
The show has a new release date of April 8, 2026, when the first two episodes bow, leading up to a series finale on May 20, 2026.
The series has become a flagship property for Prime, spawning the spinoff Gen V and being at the center of the zeitgeist for the streamer. It also has history of unintentionally being prescient, mirroring real-life events like the Jan. 6 riots, for example. Creator Erik Kripke recalled to The Hollywood Reporter last year how he and executive producers pitched the show in 2016, amid the political rise of Donald Trump, something that altered the course of The Boys.
“We just wanted to do a very realistic version of a superhero show, one where superheroes are celebrities behaving badly. Trump was the, ‘He’s not really getting the nomination, is he?’ guy,” he recalled. “When he got elected, we had a metaphor that said more about the current world. Suddenly, we were telling a story about the intersection of celebrity and authoritarianism and how social media and entertainment are used to sell fascism. We’re right in the eye of the storm. And once we realized that, I just felt an obligation to run in that direction as far as we could.”
Kripke was joined onstage in Brazil by stars Erin Moriarty, Laz Alonso, Karen Fukuhara, Tomer Capone and Colby Minifie.
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