The satirical superhero series The Boys just wrapped up its five-season run on Prime Video – and while the spinoff series Gen V also came to an end after two seasons, Amazon isn’t done with the franchise. A prequel series called Vought Rising is on track to premiere sometime in 2027, and today a teaser trailer for the show has dropped online! You can watch it in the embed above.
What is Vought Rising about?
Deadline lets us know: Set in the 1950s, Vought Rising explores the twisted origins of Vought International, with the teaser offering a diabolical first look at the next evolution of the franchise, including undercover investigations, some early Compound V testing and more of the bloody battles we’ve come to know and love.
Jensen Ackles and Aya Cash reprise the roles of Soldier Boy and Stormfront. Also in the cast are
- Mason Dye
- Will Hochman
- KiKi Layne
- Jorden Myrie
- Nicolò Pasetti
- Elizabeth Posey
- Ricky Staffieri
- Brian J. Smith
- Cecily Strong
- Mark Pellegrino
- Eric Johnson
- Annie Shapero
- Raphael Sbarge
- Romi Shraiter
- Aaron Douglas
- David Hewlett
- James Wolk
- Dylan Arnold
- Josh Randall
- Chad Willett
- Ethan Slater
The show is produced by Sony Pictures Television and Amazon MGM Studios, in association with Kripke Enterprises, Point Grey Pictures and Original Film. Ackles and Cash are producers on the show, with Eric Kripke, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver, Neal H. Moritz, Pavun Shetty, Ori Marmur, Ken Levin, Jason Netter, Garth Ennis, Darick Robertson, Michaela Starr, and Jim Barnes serving as executive producers.
Kripke has said Vought Rising has “definitely got some Boys DNA in that it’s irreverent and graphic. But it has this sort of lovely, almost noir-like murder mystery. There are detectives and twists, and there’s a murder that then opens up into a bigger conspiracy. We’re also trying to do a very gritty version of the ’50s. Most people’s feeling or sense memory of the ’50s is from movies, which are very sanitized. Even L.A. Confidential, as much as I love it, is visually a pretty clean movie. We wanted dirty and grimy. There would be heroin dens and gay bars and this underbelly of popular culture at the time. So to explore all that is a blast, as well.“
The showrunner on Vought Rising is Paul Grellong, an executive producer on The Boys who also wrote three episodes (Season 3, Episode 7; Season 4, Episode 7; and Season 5, Episode 1) of that series.
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