The Boys Season 4: What We Know About The Next Season
The Boys Season 3 wrapped up its final episode in July 2022. Through its eight episodes, we saw some intense and bloody moments, including some crazy scenes in “Herogasm," and so much more. Now we’re waiting for the Prime Video series to return with its fourth season.
That’s right, Season 4 of The Boys is confirmed to be happening, and the news came out in June 2022, right after the Season 3 premiere. Prime Video was quick to renew this major hit for the platform, which we consider to be one of the best Prime Video original shows, so it’s no surprise we’re all just waiting for The Boys Season 4. If you’re like me and you are anxiously wondering what is going to happen next, here is what we know so far about the next season.
Season 4 Is Announced - But A Premiere Date Has Not Been Set
While Season 4 of The Boys has been announced, don’t get your hopes up for a 2022 TV release, because a premiere date has not been set yet. This shouldn’t come as a surprise, considering Season 3 ended in July 2022, and it would be pretty damn shocking if they somehow got all of Season 4 done before the end of the year, but at least we know Season 4 is coming, eventually.
Filming Has Finished
However, while Season 4 isn’t going to be premiering anytime soon, The Boys has finally finished fliming. Karl Urban mentioned in an interview with Collider that they expected to start filming in late 2022, specifically around the end of August.
Yeah, we're starting I think August the 22nd, we're going to be starting season four. So I'm getting back, getting my Butcher back on, and I can't wait.
Not that long after, it was confirmed that filming and production had started on Season 4 from several stars on Instagram, via GamesRadar, where they would share their excitement for the beginning of next season. One of the posts featured came from Karl Urban’s Instagram, toasting with co-star, Jack Quaid, to the start of Season 4.
In April 2022, the official The Boys Twitter page posted a picture celebrating the end of filming, saying that just finished filming the craziest stuff that they could "legally" be allowed to put on our television screens - so we're getting closer by the day!
Jeffrey Dean Morgan Has Signed On As A Recurring Guest Star
This was something that seriously had me smiling for a whole entire day. According to Deadline, it’s been confirmed that Jeffrey Dean Morgan would be hopping on The Boys cast for Season 4, in an undisclosed role, and that it would be a recurring guest star role.
This isn’t the first time that Morgan and The Boys showrunner, Eric Kripke, have worked together, having previously paired up for another popular show, Supernatural, on the CW. In that show, he also acted alongside Jensen Ackles, who portrayed Soldier Boy in The Boys, who has teased on his Instagram that he might be back for the show, saying, "Love these peeps. Can’t wait to throw the suit back on. That’s my Christmas wish," in December 2022.
Prior to the news being confirmed, Kripke spoke about how much Morgan was a fan of the show in an interview with E! News, saying that they were trying to figure something out for him.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan is a superfan of the show, so he and I are talking. We're trying to figure out something for season four. Nothing finalized yet, but he and I are chatting and e-mailing and seeing if we can make it work with his busy schedule. So, stay tuned on that.
Morgan even shared his excitement over the role, tweeting out how excited he was on Twitter.
Morgan certainly does have a busy schedule, most recently with his main role in The Walking Dead cast, where he has played Negan for several years – and plans to reprise the character in a spinoff called Dead City after the original show finishes in November 2022. However, it’s super exciting to see him come to another gory, fun-as-hell show, and I can’t wait to see who he plays. In March 2023, Morgan even posted a selfie on Twitter at The Boys filming area, captioning the tweet, "At work."
Also announced in December 2022 was that another Supernatural alumni was coming to The Boys, and that's Rob Benedict. His role has been kept under wraps but wouldn't that be amazing to see both of them in the same scene together?
Judging from Jensen Ackles comments in an interview with Awards Radar, he said that Soldier Boy is "not dead" in Season 4, so does that mean we could get the ultimate Supernatural reunion? Only time will tell.
Hughie's Parents Have Been Cast
Another new piece of news that has come out recently is that the parents of Hughie are going to be coming into the fray for Season 4. According to Prime Video (via Collider), Simon Pegg is going to be returning as Hughie's father, but the new news is that Rosemarie Dewitt is taking on the role of Hughie's mother, a newcomer to The Boys.
Black Noir Is Going To Be “Whole New Character” In Season 4
If you watched the end of Season 3 and were wondering what the heck they are going to be doing with Black Noir on The Boys, don’t fret. While the person that was in the Black Noir costume was killed, that doesn't mean Black Noir is gone...if that makes sense.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, showrunner Eric Kripke confirms that Black Noir is very much going to be in Season 4, played by the same man, Nathan Mitchell, but the literal character beneath the mask is going to be a different person.
Mitchell will play a different character who wears the Black Noir suit. It's definitely not the last we've seen of Black Noir as a hero. It's just that the guy who was inside [the Noir suit] in season 3, he's gone. But we have Nathan playing a really interesting and hilarious character who wears the suit next season.
So that means that Black Noir isn’t going to be completely gone - just the last guy that portrayed Black Noir is gone now. I’m eager to see exactly who this new character is going to be - and what he’ll bring to the table after the craziness that was the last season.
The Carnage In Season 4 Is Going To Be ‘Surprising’ To Everyone
The Boys has always prided itself on being your not-so-typical superhero show, straight from the first couple of minutes of the first episode of Season 1. But how far can The Boys take it with its carnage? According to Jessie T. Usher, the audience is going to be quite surprised.
In an interview with Collider, Usher spoke about the upcoming season, which they are filming in Toronto, saying that Season 4 is going to be unlike anything we have ever seen in terms of carnage for the show’s standards.
I can’t say if it’s more or less. What I can say is it’s surprising. It’s surprising. It’s surprising for everyone. That’s all I can say!
I won’t lie, this sort of scares me because I really didn’t think we could get any bloodier than Season 3 because wowie was that season a lot when it came to carnage and how much fighting there was, but here’s hoping that Season 4 will find a way to somehow top that – whether it be less or more.
A VFX supervisor for the show, Stephan Fleet, also recently tweeted out on Twitter and admitted that he can’t “unsee” what he just saw during Season 4’s production. Okay, mark me down as extra scared right now.
Butcher’s Life Is A “Ticking Time Clock” In Season 4
At the end of The Boys Season 3, Butcher (Karl Urban) is on a bit of a time-crunch. Informed by a doctor at the very end of the episode, he’s told that he has about 12 to 18 months to live, due to the effects of Temp V in his system. And now, he has amends to make, and a boy to somehow save from Homelander, since Ryan is now distant from him after Butcher exploded towards the boy in Episode 3.
Eric Kripke, in an interview with Variety, talked about Butcher’s storyline in Season 4, and that now, his life is a bit of a “ticking time clock” and that he needs to fix what he’s done before it’s too late.
That’s part of the fun of getting into Season 4, which we’re just figuring out for this, but he’s got a crazy ticking clock. He’s got so much to do that he hasn’t done. And everything that he’s tried to do up to this point has exploded in the most horrible way. What we find fascinating about the question we’re asking about Butcher is, is he self-aware enough to realize that he’s causing his own misfortune? Is he self-aware enough to actually see if he can change? Those are some of the interesting conversations we’re starting to have for Season 4.
With Butcher’s grim future ahead, who knows if he’ll be able to turn his life around. Maybe he’ll even somehow make it out of this alive - but with how many deaths happen on the boys, I wouldn’t be surprised if this show ended with his.
Starlight May Be Trying A Different Way To Seek Justice
During the Season 3 ending of The Boys, Starlight both physically and mentally threw away her uniform, deciding that it was better to try and find justice by working with the Boys rather than trying to take them down from the inside out. In an interview with Newsweek, Erin Moriarty, the actress behind Starlight (Annie), spoke about that decision, and how it’s going to be a big catalyst for her character going forward.
I loved throwing that cape down a trash chute symbolically. I gave up my cape, I threw it down the trash chute. I think it's great, I think that she's realized that wearing a mask is not the way that she's gonna go about seeking justice, fighting crime, doing all the things that she wants to do
Moriarty would further say that this releasing of her mask and her costume was going to be something that would define her moving forward.
I love that because I feel like the release of that fa?ade and that mask is going to be very defining for her and liberating for her.
Here’s hoping that Starlight learns to fly more with those powers that we saw at the end of Season 3 and she fights with The Boys more.
The Ryan Plotline Will Be Like 'Kramer vs. Kramer Meets Avengers: Endgame,' According To Eric Kripke
As mentioned before, Ryan, Homelander’s biological son, seems to be forming a bond with Homelander, and leaning away from Butcher, who lashed out at him after the death of Ryan's mother. And now, from the sound of it, the future for this story arc is going to be like the legendary Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman movie, Kramer vs. Kramer with an Avengers: Endgame twist.
In the same interview from Variety, Eric Kripke talked about the storyline between Homelander, Butcher and Ryan, and how important it is that Butcher gets Ryan back on his side.
And then Ryan. Ryan is a really important piece of the story because he’s half Becca, half Homelander. If Butcher can figure out how to get his shit together and get the kid back, that could be the single best weapon they have against Homelander. But vice versa. If Homelander wins the kid over, that’s apocalyptic because then there’s two Homelanders. It’s like a child drama with apocalyptic stakes. It’s like “Kramer vs. Kramer” meets “Avengers: Endgame.” So that will be a really rich story moving forward.
I mean, the last thing I want is two Homelanders’ so please, Butcher, get your stuff together in Season 4. I don’t want another version of the worst Supe imaginable.
The Boys Spinoff, Gen V, Will Tie Into Season 4
The Boys: Gen V was announced as a spinoff to the show, however, it was originally called The Boys Presents: Varsity, according to Variety. While there’s already one spinoff, called The Boys Presents: Diabolical, it’s an anthology series that seems there for laughs as an adult animated series.
But The Boys: Gen V is confirmed to have tie-ins that are going to affect Season 4 of The Boys, and the showrunner talked about this in an interview with Deadline before the title was officially change.
There’s definitely crossover, and we’re doing our best to design a universe that sees some of the issues and storylines in Season 3 hand off to the first season in Varsity. Like there’s a presidential campaign happening in the background of that season, and there’s certain things that are happening at that school that are both in reaction to Season 3 of The Boys. There’s Soldier Boy, etcetera, but also some new storylines that are happening in that season of the spinoff that we have to pick up and take into Season 4 of the show.
For those who don’t know, The Boys: Gen V is a college spin-off of the show that puts young Supes to the test and will have cameos from The Boys in it, according to CBR, so I’m super happy to see that plot points from Gen V will somehow carry over to Season 4 of The Boys.
And featured in the teaser trailer for The Boys: Gen V on YouTube, we see several characters from The Boys appear in the show, so that only further shows that the crossover is real. That show premiered on September 29th, 2023.
Later on, Eric Kripke spoke to Entertainment Weekly in October 2023, confirming that even The Boys Season 4 would hand off to Gen V Season 2, so now I'm even more excited to see what happens next.
The Boys' Showrunner Says That Season 4 Won't Be The End
If you were hoping that Season 4 isn't going to be the end of The Boys, you would be right, because it looks like Eric Kripke is prepping even more bloody goodness for us.
In a Tweet that he posted on Twitter, Kripke said that they were prepping the finale of Season 4 of The Boys, but that it most certainly wasn't the "series finale," saying that there will be more for fans to look forward to.
This makes me even more excited for The Boys Season 4, but I'm almost concerned as to how much bloodier it could get. Whatever the case, I'm here for it.
What are you looking forward to the most in the upcoming season of The Boys? Will our burning questions be answered? As long as it's not more strange bestiality from The Deep and and some squid, I think we’ll all be on the same page.
