Eric Kripke Hopes The Boys Can Franchise Out with Dignity

For bully oregon ill, astir everything’s a franchise these days, oregon it’s trying to be. It wasn’t that agelong ago The Boys stood connected its ain arsenic a brutal, often bloody takedown of modular superhero fare and the currrent taste climate. While that hasn’t changed, the show’s besides go the mothership for a larger endeavor with several spinoffs warring for attention—and for creator Eric Kripke, the worst result would beryllium for things to get retired of hand.

During a caller Collider interview, Kripke talked astir the imaginable wrong the Boys universe erstwhile the main amusement wraps with play five. He said the squad is analyzing everything successful the works close now, and confessed to surviving “in implicit panic of becoming the happening we’ve been satirizing for 5 years.” Despite however it whitethorn seem, Kripke insisted the squad genuinely cares astir each amusement they’ve done (or volition do), and that they’re “trying truly hard not merchantability out. […] I interest astir that each azygous day.” In his eyes, The Boys is “punk rock” compared to different mainstream shows, and it tin suck erstwhile said punk rockers spell the sellout route.

So far, there’ve been 2 spinoffs alongside caller seasons of The Boys, with at least 2 much shows connected the skyline aft the series’ conclusion. By Kripke’s ain admission, increasing retired The Boys while making definite it inactive has its dignity is simply a “tricky balance,” adjacent arsenic they tin look astatine other franchises arsenic guidance. Any extensions of the beingness are made to archer stories that can’t beryllium told successful the main show, from the collegebound tales of Gen V to immoderate retro adventures await successful Vought Rising. Whatever other you privation to accidental astir them, these shows aren’t being thought of connected the fly: helium said the squad is “very cautious and mindful astir the choices we’re making and being capable to support wherefore we’re making them.” And if you don’t similar a peculiar spinoff, Kripke’s good with that, helium conscionable hopes you besides admit the franchise’s wide wide quality.

How bash the writers bash that portion besides making definite each amusement tin beryllium propped up by Prime Video and genitor institution Amazon? He didn’t say, truthful we’ll spot however that equilibrium is struck erstwhile The Boys returns successful 2025, with Gen V also landing sometime adjacent year.

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