Popular Amazon Prime Video series The Boys starring Antony Starr and Karl Urban will end with Season 5, showrunner Eric Kripke has announced on social media ahead of the June 13 premiere of the show’s fourth season.
“#TheBoys Season 4 Premiere Week is the perfect time to announce: Season 5 will be the Final Season! Which was always my plan, I just had to be cagey about it until I got final permission from @voughtintl. But I’m thrilled to bring this story to a gory, epic, emotional climax,” Kripke posted on Instagram on Tuesday.
Sharing a snap of the script, the showrunner wrote, “So check out Season 4, premiering THIS THURSDAY, because the end has begun! Hop in for the ride. Which will be bumpy. And probably a little moist.”
Dropped by the makers early last month, the Season 4 trailer of The Boys revealed that Urban’s Billy Butcher is determined to release a lethal virus targeting the Supe community in cahoots with a new character portrayed by Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Starr’s Homelander, on the other hand, is exploiting claims of patriotism to transform his band of “beloved celebrities” into “wrathful gods”, who will pit themselves against protesting humans.
Based on the eponymous comic book series by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, The Boys also stars Jack Quaid, Erin Moriarty, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Tomer Capone, Karen Fukuhara, Colby Minifie, Claudia Doumit and Cameron Crovetti.
Susan Heyward, Valorie Curry and Jeffrey Dean Morgan are also set to join the cast of the upcoming instalment.
The Boys Season 4 will begin streaming on Prime Video on June 13 with three episodes. After that, a new episode will be released each week, leading up to the season finale on July 18.
The satirical superhero drama series is produced by Sony Pictures Television, Amazon MGM Studios with Kripke Enterprises, Original Film and Point Grey Pictures.
