The Boys has been renewed for Season 3 ahead of the show’s Season 2 premiere on September 4, executive producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg announced during Amazon Prime Video’s Comic-Con@Home 2020 panel for the twisted superhero series. The Boys panel was featured as part of IGN’s Comic-Con@Home livestream – check out our full Comic-Con 2020 panel schedule for everything coming up over Comic-Con weekend.
“Because this show has fans and it is watched by people like you, they have decided to renew it yet again for a third season,” Rogen said. “So if you like The Boys, you got more of it, thank God!”
“We never know if things we make are gonna keep moving on forward or get shut down,” Goldberg laughed. “This one’s not shut down yet.”
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As for when the show will actually be able to begin filming Season 3, given the global production delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Rogen quipped, “Anyone’s guess – hope sometime this decade!”
He cheekily added, “Don’t be surprised if you see a lot of superheroes in what are essentially hermetically sealed outfits that do not allow any of their breath to interact with anyone else’s breath – it’s just a wardrobe choice, it has nothing to do with the current climate.”
The panel also revealed that the series will receive a weekly aftershow called Prime Rewind: Inside the Boys, hosted by Aisha Tyler.
Watch the full Comic-Con@Home panel for The Boys below:
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The release schedule for The Boys Season 2 will differ from its Season 1 release schedule, which saw the entire season premiere at once; instead, the first three episodes of Season 2 will be released on September 4, with the remaining episodes released weekly thereafter until the October 9 finale.
Showrunner Eric Kripke offered a tantalizing preview of Season 2 (along with a typically effed up sneak peek clip from the new season featuring a whale), promising, “When we pick up Season 2, it’s a lot more intense. We worked hard to make Season 2 crazier but also more emotional and higher stakes. Everyone’s in a really tight spot; The Boys are wanted fugitives coming off of last season, they’re hunted, they’re basically totally screwed and they’re doing their best to fight back at Vought however they can but Season 1 was a big loss for them. Conversely, Homelander killed the only person who could control him in Stillwell, so he’s increasingly out of control, he’s ascendant, he’s making Vought a scarier place, and Starlight is sort of trapped in this living nightmare, so I think everyone is pushed to the limits in Season 2.”
For more from The Boys, read about the Billy Butcher short film debuting in the middle of Season 2, and head over to Amazon’s VirtualCon hub if you want more content from the streaming service’s Comic-Con lineup, which also includes Utopia, Truth Seekers, and Upload.
Check out the teaser trailers for Amazon’s Truth Seekers and Utopia below.
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Source: IGN.com The Boys Renewed for Season 3