‘The Boys’ Showrunner on New Spinoff, Soldier Boy’s Big Role in Final Season and ‘Horrible Coincidences’ in Assassination Storyline

variety.com:

The Boys” showrunner Eric Kripke says that newly announced spinoff series “Vought Rising” will be “‘L.A. Confidential’ with superheroes” — and that he’s been planning the prequel show, led by Jensen Ackles’ Soldier Boy and Aya Cash’s Stormfront, for quite a while. “We’ve actually had this idea in our pocket for a really long time,” Kripke told Variety during an interview after the show’s Comic-Con panel Friday. “And in fact, when I went to Amazon, to pitch spinoffs, I came with two spinoffs, ‘Gen V’ and ‘Vought Rising.’ And at the time, they said, ‘Let’s start with “Gen V,”‘ and we’ll see how it goes and then maybe we’ll do ‘Rising.’ It turns out it went OK.

I’m just fascinated with the history of how we became who we became. ‘The Boys’ itself is basically a film noir. It’s like cops and robbers.

So to really do it classically with like fedoras and trench coats and salacious stuff, and like ‘L.A. Confidential’ with superheroes, is just going to be super fun.

And Jensen and Aya, they’re superstars. They’re gonna blow the doors off.” Along with the announcement of the “Vought Rising” prequel series, it was confirmed during “The Boys” panel that Ackles will also be reprising his role as Soldier Boy for the mothership’s fifth and final season — something that was teased in a mid-credits scene in the Season 4 finale.“He’s going to be in Season 5 quite a lot,” Kripke said. “We want him to be a big character.