Though an exact premiere date has yet to be set, Prime Video has announced that The Boys will return for its fourth season next year, and we also have a first look via a pair of promo posters spotlighting the show's ever-opposing forces for bad and... slightly less bad!
It's already been confirmed that season 4 will pick up almost immediately after the events of the Gen V finale, and it looks like Homelander (Antony Starr) backed the right horse in vice presidential candidate Victoria Neuman (Claudia Doumit) and her running-mate, presidential candidate Robert Singer (Jim Beaver).
In stark contrast, we also see a dejected-looking Billy Butcher (Karl Urban), who has clearly suffered a major setback. Thankfully, he knows about a certain Supe virus that was created in Gen V's "Woods."
"For Butcher, by the time they were making the finale, we were pretty deep into breaking Season 4," said showrunner Eric Kripke in a recent interview with Variety. "We knew that we wanted that virus to be a pretty big part of Season 4, and we knew that we wanted Butcher to be aware of it. It seems crazy that he wouldn’t be aware of it. It became kind of tricky, because how do we show that he knows about it without it just being dialogue? This idea came up that it probably shouldn’t even happen in The Boys, it should happen in Gen V.”
"The value of having the [two shows’ writers] rooms be in coordination is, our room took it to Michele and her room and said, ‘Can we put Butcher in the end, so we can show that he’s really hot on the tail of the virus?’ It was really cool, because it does a nice little preamble to what’s coming next. And Karl and Ant both were willing to come in on their days off to go work on the other show. But the Homelander part was Michele’s team."
Check out the promo art at the link below.
Specific season 4 plot details are still under wraps, but we do know that new recruits will include Susan Heyward as Sister Sage, and Valorie Curry as Firecracker. Cameron Crovertti (Ryan) has also been upped to series regular, which is hardly surprising after the sinister final shot of season 3.
Kripke recently confirmed that The Boys will not finish up after four seasons.