‘the Boys’ Season 5 Launch Date, Solid, Plot & What to Know

• Prime Video’s “The Boys” will finish with its upcoming fifth season.
• “Supernatural” stars Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins could have roles within the ultimate season.
• There is no launch date but, however filming is underway and anticipated to proceed by mid-2025.

All good issues should come to an finish, together with Prime Video’s common superhero satire sequence “The Boys.”

The present was formally renewed for a fifth season in Might 2024. Two days earlier than the season 4 premiere, creator and showrunner Eric Kripke revealed through X (previously Twitter) and Instagram that the upcoming fifth season could be the present’s final.

“#TheBoys Season 4 Premiere Week is the right time to announce: Season 5 would be the Last Season! Which was all the time my plan, I simply needed to be cagey about it till I bought ultimate permission from @voughtintl,'” Kripke wrote on Instagram.

“However I am thrilled to carry this story to a gory, epic, emotional climax. So try Season 4, premiering THIS THURSDAY, as a result of the tip has begun! Hop in for the journey. Which might be bumpy. And doubtless somewhat moist. @theboystv @primevideo.”

This is every part we learn about season 5 of “The Boys,” to date.

Season 4 is designed to be a darker, extra introspective season forward of the all-out motion of season 5

Season 4 explores the characters’ largest fears and unresolved traumas. Kripke in contrast the present to a three-act movie and mentioned that season 4 serves as act two.

“It is just like the darkest level, probably the most introspective level,” he informed Deadline. “It is the one the place the characters should emotionally face their existential trauma. So then they’re capable of leap onto the curler coaster journey that’s the climax of the film.”

In an interview with LADbible, Kripke mentioned that the season 4 finale makes the five-season plan even clearer.

“There is no approach a present goes yet one more season after the occasions of that finale,” the showrunner mentioned.

“So far as we’re involved, it is our present’s model of the apocalypse,” he mentioned of season 5.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan hopes to return as Joe Kessler

Morgan joined season 4 of “The Boys” as one in every of Butcher’s previous buddies who reenters his life. It isn’t till episode six that followers be taught that the true Joe is definitely lifeless, and Butcher has been hallucinating the entire time — a facet impact of his mind tumor.

In season 4, the hallucination model of Joe serves because the manifestation of Butcher’s bloodthirsty facet, the a part of him that desires to wipe out all supes. Over the past moments of the finale, Butcher is seen driving off with the final dose of the supe-killing virus, with Joe smiling with satisfaction within the rearview mirror.

“I do not understand how you do season 5 with out an look, no less than,” Morgan informed Selection when requested if he’ll return for the ultimate season. “That is my feeling. I’ve by no means had any official talks about it, however I feel it might be actually exhausting to hold on with out some kind of decision — and hopefully that’ll be an entire season!”

Jensen Ackles will return as Soldier Boy, and he’ll be joined by his ‘Supernatural’ costars Jared Padalecki and Mischa Collins

Jensen Ackles joined “The Boys” throughout season three as Soldier Boy, an obnoxious supe and the organic father of Homelander (Antony Starr). Ackles was absent from season 4 however had a cameo on the very finish of the season.

Ackles made a shock look at a panel for “The Boys” at San Diego Comedian-Con in July 2024, the place it was introduced that he could be a sequence common for season 5.

“You understand, what we realized was we actually hadn’t explored the father-son relationship a lot between Homelander and Soldier Boy,” Kripke informed online game weblog Gamesradar+ at SDCC. “There’s plenty of materials there, how Soldier Boy feels about Homelander, how Homelander feels about his dad, and so we actually needed to dig into that relationship.”

There’s additionally going to be one other “Supernatural” reunion.

In February 2025, the social media accounts for “The Boys” posted a video revealing that Ackles’ “Supernatural” costars Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins will even seem in season 5.

Extra new solid members for season 5 embody “Hamilton” star Daveed Diggs and “Stranger Issues” actor Mason Dye.

Selection reported that Diggs might be a sequence common. Dye will play a supe named Bombsight, who’s already been referenced in “The Boys” as one of many oldest identified supes in historical past.

Kripke already has concepts for the sequence finale ending

Kripke informed Deadline that the writers’ room spent weeks discussing the present’s mythology and broad concepts for season 5, and he has a good suggestion of how the sequence will conclude.

“I do know that second the place the title card comes up, and it says six months later, and also you see the place all people is,” he mentioned. “I do know that. I can actually write the final 10 pages of this story proper now.”

He defined to The Hollywood Reporter that every part hasn’t been mapped out intimately but as a result of he needs to permit the writers to counsel concepts and twists.

“I do not completely understand how we’ll get there, however I do know the vacation spot,” he mentioned.

Season 5 of ‘The Boys’ will definitively wrap up the present’s story

“The Boys” juggles many characters and storylines, however the coronary heart of the present is the dynamic between sworn enemies Butcher (Karl City) and Homelander (Antony Starr).

Homelander already teased a “scorched” earth” future for him and Butcher within the season three premiere. It seems like followers will doubtless see that play out in season 5.

“The present is a serialized story that’s about Butcher and Homelander slowly crashing into one another, and the present would not work with out both of these,” Kripke informed The Hollywood Reporter. “So, you simply cannot hold that happening without end, you must allow them to smash into one another.”

“What I might say is, this specific story is ending, the Butcher-Homelander is ending,” he informed Selection. “However there could be different tales and different corners of the universe.”

There are already numerous “Boys” offshoots in numerous levels; the college-set “Gen V” was renewed for a second season in October 2023, and a Mexico spin-off is within the works. There’s additionally the prequel spin-off sequence “Vought Rising,” which is able to star Ackles and Aya Money, reprising her position as Stormfront. Leisure Weekly reported that Dye will return as Bombsight in “Vought Rising.”

However the upcoming fifth season of “The Boys” would be the finish of the street for the present.

“This story of ‘The Boys’ is not going to proceed on,” Kripke informed Leisure Weekly, including that another potential spin-offs in growth have but to be introduced.

There is no launch date but for season 5

In July 2024, Kripke informed Selection that season 5 would start filming round mid-November.

“And I do not know when it’s going to premiere but, however we’ll be taking pictures nicely into center of ’25,” he mentioned.

The showrunner added that, like previous seasons, the ultimate installment might be comprised of eight episodes.

Since season 5 is anticipated to movie by 2025, meaning it doubtless will not premiere till 2026.