Amazon’s The Boys will end with season 5, as showrunner reveals why and promises to have a ‘bloody’ ending

THE BOYS showrunner Eric Kripke announced that the series will end with season 5.

Amazon’s The Boys is a satirical superhero series developed by Kripke based on the comic book of the same name.

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On Tuesday, Kripke announced on X, formally Twitter, that the Amazon Prime Video series will end with a fifth and final season.

“#TheBoys Season 4 premiere week is a good time to announce: Season 5 will be the last!” Kripke said in the social media post.

The post also included a screenshot of an edited copy of the script for the Season 4 finale, titled Assassination Run.

Kripke, who also produced The Boys spin-off Gen V, continued: “Always my plan, I just had to be cautious until I got the final OK from Vought. Thrilled to bring the story to a bloody, epic, wet climax.

“Watch season 4 in 2 DAYS, because the end has already begun!” he teased.

The Boys revolves around a team of vigilantes as they battle “supers” who abuse their super-powered abilities.

The Amazon Prime original features a cast of seasoned actors, including Karl Urban as Billy Butcher, Jack Quaid as Hughie Campbell and Antony Starr as the series’ big bad, the Superman-esque Homelander.

Erin Moriarty, Dominique McElligott, Jessie T. Usher, Chace Crawford, Laz Alonso, Tomer Capone, Karen Fukuhara and Nathan Mitchell also star.

The fourth season, which will be released soon, will follow a terminally ill Billy Butcher, with just months to live, as he discovers a man-made virus that can eliminate his super-powered enemies.

A LONG WAY TO GO

Last month, Kripke revealed that the new spin-off of The Boys, set in Mexico, had hit a major roadblock in its quest to become a series.

Actors Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna are producing The Boys: Mexico under their La Corriente del Golfo banner.

Last year, Gael, 45, confirmed that the spinoff had been greenlit, as well as his involvement with the new series, when speaking to Variety.

The Coco star told the outlet, “I’m really excited about what we can do because we can do something really interesting in Latin America.”

In May, however, Kripke provided a disappointing update on the spin-off during an interview with Weekly entertainment.

“They are still closing the deal with the pilot writer,” he revealed.

Kripke added, “It has an incredible tone, and we all laughed and thought how fun it would be. But there are a lot of hurdles for this show before it can be a real show.

“He has to write an amazing pilot, he probably has to write an amazing episode two. I think it can and will, but we’re a while away from actually starting to roll out the Easter eggs and the settings and stuff.”

The creator of Supernatural confessed that in addition to being just an “incredible pilot”, the program has to be able to stand on its own, without viewers needing to watch the other series in The Boys universe.

He told EW: “I really don’t want people to feel like they have to watch a [show] to understand the other.

“I never want it to feel like homework or required viewing. I think it hurt Marvel in a lot of ways, and I don’t want to do that.

“I want you to watch both shows. It certainly expands your enjoyment and experience of both shows because you understand some of the history of where things came from, but by no means is it necessary,” Kripke added.

THE BOYS: MEXICO

In November last year, Variety reported that Amazon has greenlit a The Boys spinoff set in Mexico.

The Spanish-language series will be in the same universe as the Amazon Prime original series, based on Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s comic books of the same name.

As with The Boys, the new series will be produced by Sony Pictures Television and Amazon MGM Studios.

Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer, co-writer of the DCEU film Blue Beetle and the person with whom a deal has not yet been made, is attached to write.

Kripke will produce the series along with Point Gray Pictures’ Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and James Weaver and Original Film’s Neal H. Moritz and Pavun Shetty.

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