Fans, get thrilled: "The Boys" showrunner, Eric Kripke, promises the series' return with a fourth season, following the conclusion of "Gen V"

Fans of "The Boys" have been waiting a long time for an update on the status of this popular comic series. Now that the first season of "Gen V" has come to an end, Eric Kripke, the showrunner of the project, promises the return of "The Boys". But the fourth season will have to wait a bit longer.

Here's What We Know

To celebrate the end of "Gen V," which is a spin-off of "The Boys," showrunner Eric Kripke decided to share with Variety whether there will be a long-awaited sequel to the original show, which, by the way, was one of the most successful projects on Amazon Prime Video and one of the most recognised works in the superhero genre:

"You will not know when The Boys Season 4 is airing by the time the Gen V finale airs. But most of the editing is done, we’re now deep into the music and visual effects. Marketing is starting to taxi their planes on the runway. There’s a lot happening behind the scenes of The Boys Season 4, I can say that."

The plot of "Gen V" is reportedly deeply connected to the fourth season of "The Boys". The story centres on a group of students at Godolkin University, designed to train future Supes, who uncover a complex conspiracy within the institution to study young people with superpowers. The labs hidden beneath the school are developing a virus capable of destroying the Supes, and this information will be very important to the future of the franchise.

This is something that Kripke himself has spoken about:

"For Butcher, by the time they were making the finale, we were pretty deep into breaking Season 4. 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."

Source : Movieweb