The Boys universe continues to expand, with a third spin-off series announced this evening during the Prime Video's show's San Diego Comic-Con panel.
Vought Rising will be a prequel series focusing on the origins of the all-encompassing corporation from the main series, with both Jensen Ackles and Aya Cash set to reprise their respective roles as Soldier Boy and Stormfront.
Spoilers for the season 4 finale of The Boys ahead.
Ackles also made an appearance on stage at Hall H, confirming that Solider Boy will return as a series regular for the fifth and final season after making a brief appearance in the season 4 finale's post-credits scene.
“From the very beginning, I wanted to wrap it out around season five,” said showrunner Eric Kripke. “You can have your calm-before-the-storm moment, which is kind of what season four is for me. I say calm… you know what I mean. It’s about the characters and then you kick off into a climax.”
Check out the first official key art for Vought Rising below, and let us know what you make of the concept of this spin-off series in the comments section.
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Introducing the next deranged entry into the world of The Boys: VOUGHT RISING, starring Jensen Ackles and Aya Cash. Set in the 1950s, exploring the early exploits of Soldier Boy and a supe you know as Stormfront. Only advice for now is keep your hands off the [frick]ing shield. pic.twitter.com/Ss9lqnnbP3
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"The world is on the brink. Victoria Neuman is closer than ever to the Oval Office and under the muscly thumb of Homelander, who is consolidating his power," reads the official season 4 synopsis. "Butcher, with only months to live, has lost Becca’s son as well as his job as The Boys’ leader. The rest of the team are fed up with his lies. With the stakes higher than ever, they have to find a way to work together and save the world before it’s too late."
Returning cast members include Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Tomer Capone, Karen Fukuhara, Colby Minifie, Claudia Doumit, and Cameron Crovetti, along with new recruits Susan Heyward, Valorie Curry, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
The first three episodes of The Boys season 4 will be available to stream from June 13th, with new instalments dropping weekly through to the season finale on July 18.
Marvel Studios held a special Deadpool & Wolverine screening at Comic-Con yesterday evening and spoiled the movie's biggest cameos by bringing Jennifer Garner, Channing Tatum, Chris Evans, and Wesley Snipes out on stage.
In the movie, they play Variants of Elektra, Gambit, the Human Torch, and Blade. Snipes, now 61, first suited up the Daywalker in 1998 and bid farewell to the role in 2004 when he starred in the disappointing Blade: Trinity...alongside Ryan Reynolds.
Talking to Entertainment Weekly, the iconic actor addressed his MCU debut. "Over the years, we've had very interesting conversations, some of them very substantive and some of them not," he explained. "So I kind of resided that I was moving on from them, which is okay. I did three of them, and I thought they turned out pretty good. Not so bad... So we move on to other things, and bigger and better things, as well."
However, everything changed when Reynolds - who Snipes famously didn't get on with while making the Blade threequel - sent a text message to his old co-star saying, "I want to talk to you."
Snipes recalls, "I did not think it was possible. I didn't think we would be able to pull it off. I didn't think that Marvel was into it, Disney was into it — also because they had Mahershala cast for the next upcoming version of it."
"I thought it didn't make sense to me, but [when] you get a call from Ryan Reynolds out of the blue after 20 years, you go, 'Okay, I got to take this call. Let's see what this is about,'" the actor adds. "He told me the idea... They said 'yes' and 'it's a go.' 'If you're in, we're in.' Here we are."
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After detailing the work he put into getting back into Blade shape, Snipes opened up on moving on from any differences he and Reynolds might have had once upon a time.
"Some of the things he did back in those days, that's not really my humor," he says of their time working together in 2004. "I'm not tuned in that way. So I thought, 'Well, it's a little over the top for me.' But seeing him do it in this context [in Deadpool & Wolverine] made a lot of sense. And seeing him do it and do it well, Ryan does something that most people can't do."
"He's unique in that way, and he's found a fantastic niche for himself doing what he does. Deadpool is Ryan Reynolds all day long. So it was enjoyable. It was enjoyable to work with him. It was enjoyable to revisit."
Snipes has also shared some comments on X about returning as Blade for what will presumably be the final time...well, until Avengers: Secret Wars, perhaps!
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