The Boys’ Stars Want the Show to Go Out With a Movie-Sized Bang

The Boys has spent the past 4 seasons brutalizing, grossing out, and making its assemblage laughter astatine the absurd antics playing retired connected their TVs. But present that the show’s got a definitive end successful sght, immoderate of its formed deliberation it should spell large to wrapper up its story. And what’s bigger than a movie?

Talking to Josh Horowitz, actors Laz Alonso (Mother’s Milk) and Antony Starr (Homelander) discussed however the show’s earned a changeable to grow into a film. Alonso said he’s pitched this thought to creator Eric Kripke aggregate times implicit the years, and without overmuch success. His approach? “Make the past occurrence of play 5 the cliffhanger and denote the movie that we’ve been filming since the opening of the series,” helium said. If helium had his way, the would-be movie would besides beryllium a large theatrical film, which was capable for Starr to get down the idea. Kripke’s managed to duck that idea, but Alonso told the assemblage to propulsion the thought to the showrunner connected Twitter arsenic a mode to amusement support.

Laz Alonso is openly campaigning for a movie for THE BOYS.

My afloat chat with the cast: https://t.co/riVuOF9W4P pic.twitter.com/ugTZJQENtE

— Josh Horowitz (@joshuahorowitz) July 10, 2024

Plenty of TV shows person made the leap to movies, often to proceed the show’s communicative oregon relation arsenic immoderate benignant of epilogue oregon definitive end. It wouldn’t beryllium that retired of the question for The Boys to get the movie treatment, since it’s beauteous fashionable and it’d beryllium a decent flex connected Prime Video’s extremity to accidental its superhero amusement tin basal with the large leagues. It’d besides bring things afloat circle, since the amusement was adjacent to becoming a film trilogy. But Alonso’s dreams person a spot of a roadworthy block: past year, Amazon got into it with manager Doug Liman implicit Road House and it skipping theaters for a streaming launch. Exceptions could ever beryllium made, but Amazon astir apt doesn’t privation to marque that benignant of gamble with 1 of its large franchises…or astatine slightest not without seeing assemblage effect to The Mandalorian & Grogu first.

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