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Revision as of 07:05, 13 June 2022
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| Name | Soldier Boy |
| Actor | Jensen Ackles |
| Dates | |
| Location | |
| Occupation | Superhero |
| Episode(s) | |
In Development
In April 2016, it was announced that Eric Kripke, along with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, were developing a TV series based on the comic book The Boys. The comic series was written by Garth Ennis and co-created, designed, and illustrated by Darick Robertson between 2006 and 2012. The comics are based in a world where superheroes exist as the tools of a corporation called Vought International. The top echelon of heroes are know as "The Seven" with some key characters broadly parodying DC/Marvel characters: Homelander is a pastiche of Superman and Captain America, Queen Maeve is Wonder Woman, A-Train is the Flash and the Deep is Aquaman. Soldier Boy, the character that Jensen will play, references Captain America. Also in this world are a group known as "The Boys", led by Billy Butcher, who seek to bring Vought down. There had been numerous development attempts at the comics over the years including as as a movie at Columbia Pictures and Paramount.
Seasons One and Two
In November 2017, Amazon ordered the first, eight episode, season of The Boys. Ahead of the series premiere, on July 19, 2019, Amazon Video renewed the series for a second season which premiered on September 4, 2020. Unlike the first season, where the whole season was dropped at once, Eric Kripke insisted that the second season drop one episode a week. Kripke said of the problem with the full season drop “People burn through it in a week or two. There’s an intense amount of activity and then it sort of fades…. There’s so many great moments in season 2, we want to give it time to marinate so people can reflect on it and talk about it before they move on to the next thing and be in the conversation a little longer. I think a little anticipation for the fans is healthy.”
Season one was both hugely popular and well-received by the critics. Viewers loved the sardonic humour along with the high levels of violence, gore and sex which provided a contrast to the more anodyne MCU and DEC movies. The second series was even more successful, and it became the first non-Netflix show to rate in the Nielsen Top 10 streaming shows.
Season Two became the first comic book adaptation to score an Emmy nomination for Best Drama ever!
Season Three
Filming
As filming started on Season 3 of The Boys in February 2021, it was announced that a number of Supernatural alumni are joining the series. In addition to Jensen, they include writer Meredith Glynn who is fresh off Supernatural, and David Reed who left Supernatural in 2012 and has since worked on Revolution, Aquarius and The Magicians. They will both join the series as who joins as executive producers. Jim Michaels who was a co-executive producer based in Vancouver for Supernatural took on the same role, but left the show partially through the season. Already on-board alongside Eric Kripke are executive producer and director Phil Sgriccia who left Supernatural at the end of Season 14, and composer Christopher Lennertz.
Kripke posted a reaction shot from a production meeting for the "Herogasm" episode. In the comics, "Herogasm" is an annual Vought-sponsored bacchanalian weekend of sex, drugs and anything goes.
Episodes
| Title | Director | Writer | Air Date | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.01 Payback | Phil Sgriccia | Craig Rosenberg | June 3, 2022 | Hughies is working with Victoria Neuman's Bureau of Superhero Affairs, sending The Boys, sans Mother's Milk, out to bring in Supes who are causing problems. Maeve visits Butcher and urges him to investigate Payback the original Superhero team, in particular their leader Soldier Boy who she thinks was killed by a weapon called B.C.L. RED, She also gives him some vials of V24, which imbues the user with powers for 24 hours. Hughie discovers that Victoria is secretly a Supe. |
| 3.02 The Only man in the Sky | Phil Sgriccia | David Reed | June 3, 2022 | Highie discovers that Victoria was taken from Supe children's home and raised by Stan Edgar. Butcher confronts Gunpowder, Soldier Boy's sidekick, but is shot by him. After taking the temporary V, Butcher returns and find out that Soldier Boy died in Nicaragua while on a mission for the CIA led by Mallory. He then kills Gunpowder using his powers. An unfiltered rant by Homelander proves a hit with the public. Mother's Milk whose parents were killed by Soldier Boy, returns to The Boys. |
| 3.03 Barbary Coast | Julian Holmes | Anslem Richardson & Geoff Aull | June 3, 2022 | Mallory tells The Boys how she was part of the CIA operation in Nicaragua where the US was backing right wing militia against the leftist government, and funding their efforts by selling cocaine in black neighborhoods in the US. When Payback turns up, they give away their position to Nicaraguan and Russian forces. Black Noir is injured and Soldier Boy is apparently killed by a Russian superweapon. |
| 3.04 Glorious Five Year Plan | Julian Holmes | Meredith Glynn | June 10, 2022 | Through Frenchies old boss Little Nina, The Boys travel to Russia. Meanwhile Stan Edgar asks Victoria to help pull Homelander into line, but she double crosses him, and Edgar is removed as head of Vought. Her payment is a dose of V which she injects into her daughter so she can better protect herself. Homelander learns of the alliance of Starlight, The Deep, A Train and Supersonic against him. AS a warning Homelander kills Supersonic, Starlight's childhood boyfriend, and announces to the world that he and Starlight are dating. In Russia, Hughies gets Butcher to give him some V24, and the team break into the lab where they believe the B.C.L. RED weapon is stored. Instead the accidentally release Soldier Boy from his cryogenic storage. After unleashing his power on them, Soldier Boy leaves. |
| 3.05 The Last Time to Look At This World Of Lies | Aprill Winney | Geri Carillo | June 17, 2021 | |
| 3.06 Herogasm | Steve Robin | Bret VandenBos & Brandon Willer | June 24, 2021 | |
| 3.07 Here Comes A Candle To Light You To Bed | Amyn Kaderali | Anna Fricke & Katherine Alyse | July 1, 2022 | |
| 3.08 The Instant White Hot Wild | tba | tba | July 8, 2022 |
Promotion
- "Diabolical" is an eight episode animated series set in The Boys universe, with episodes written by Awkwafina, Garth Ennis, Eliot and Ilana Glazer, Simon Racioppa, Justin Roiland and Ben Bayouth, Andy Samberg, Aisha Tyler, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. The series will air in early 2022.
- Video of the cast of The Boys at the end of filming Season 3 including Drunk Jensen! (aka Nesnej)
- Kripke tweeted : "I just saw dailies with @JensenAckles that are SO FUCKING WEIRD & FUNNY & a scene I've always wanted to do! I wiped a tear laughing. So happy to be working with him again. Wait till you meet Soldier Boy"
- Why the superhero genre is the perfect vehicle for a satire for our perilous times. An interview with Kripke by The Hollywood Reporter
- There is now an official podcast for The Boys with interview with the cast, writers and producers.
- Interviews with Kripke and the cast about Season 3 by Den of Geek
- The Boys had a panel at SXSW in Austin featuring Jensen and Karl Urban, Laz Alonso, Karen Fukuhara, Jessie T. Usher, Chace Crawford, and executive producer Eric Kripke.
- Trailer for Season 3 of The Boys featuring a new song “Bones” by Imagine Dragons.
- Review of the Season 3 trailer by Den of Geek
- The Cast of ‘The Boys’ At Variety SXSW Studio
- Clips of Jensen on the panel
- Gaittlin Griffith played Jesse Turner the Antichrist in 5.06 I Believe The Children Are Our Future and also the young Gunpower - Soldier Boy's sidekick - in The Boys!
Jensen as Soldier Boy
On the 17th August, Jensen announced via his Instagram that he will be joining Season 3 of Eric Kripke's series The Boys as the character Soldier Boy.
- “When I was a child, I had a crazy, impossible dream — to provide Jensen Ackles with gainful employment. I’m happy to say that dream has come true. Jensen is an amazing actor, an even better person, smells like warm chocolate chip cookies, and I consider him a brother. As Soldier Boy, the very first superhero, he’ll bring so much humor, pathos, and danger to the role. I can’t wait to be on set with him again, and bring a bit of ‘Supernatural’ to ‘The Boys.’”
Danneel and the kids sent their best wishes via a cute video. Jared commented with:
- "Couldn’t be happier for my brother from another mother!! Thrilled you’re gonna keep kicking ass and takin names. They’re lucky to have ya."
And on Twitter added:
- "We’ve been “The Boys” for fifteen years, so it’s nice to see the tradition live on. Congrats on your superpowers brother, you deserve it!"
From late 2020, Jensen took at least six trips to Los Angeles for fittings, as the costume for Soldier Boy was constructed. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Jensen mentioned that, coincidentally, he would be wearing the same boots as Soldier Boy that Dean Winchester wore although a different color. The costume was from a concept by Greg Hopwood and designed and made by Laura Jean Shannon who said of the costume:
- "Soldier Boy is the original bad ass. Our goal was to highlight a bygone era of overt masculinity and grit. With that pedigree we dove headfirst into baking in an all-American quality grounded in a military soldier’s practicality with a heavy dose of old school cowboy swagger. We knew that the actor had to have Steve McQueen looks and chops with a John Wayne attitude, luckily Jensen Ackles embodies all of that."
Jensen also impressively grew out his beard between the end of filming Supernatural in September 2020 and the start of The Boys production in May 2021, and will sport it in the early appearances of Soldier Boy. Due to COVID restrictions, Jensen was required to quarantine in Toronto for 14 days before being able to start filming. He is expected to be in Canada filming the series until August, and will not be able to travel home to Austin during that time.
Eric Kripke talked to The Wrap about working with Jensen again:
- “It’s been awesome. I mean, I love the guy so much. And just to have him read my words again is such a treat. I mean, on the first day of dailies, I reached out to him. Funny enough, his very first scene as Soldier Boy was taking place in a shitty motel room. And so he’s in this shitty motel room reading my words. And I just was like, ‘This is great. This feels like coming home.’ It’s been awesome. The cast loved him. They saw immediately what a good dude and what a really fine actor he is. And really all of our conversations have been about how to make sure that this is not Dean Winchester. How do we give him a look that feels a little different and register of voice and mannerisms? I think he and I are both really interested in creating a different character. So it’s been a blast. I mean, he’s such a good actor. The metaphor I use is he just has a lot of Crayons in his Crayon box and you can really use all of them to do something, I think, really nuanced.”
Video of the cast of The Boys at the end of filming Season 3 including Drunk Jensen (aka Nesnej).
- "I just saw dailies with @JensenAckles that are SO FUCKING WEIRD & FUNNY & a scene I've always wanted to do! I wiped a tear laughing. So happy to be working with him again. Wait till you meet Soldier Boy"
Diabolical
- "Diabolical" is an eight episode animated series set in The Boys universe, with episodes written by Awkwafina, Garth Ennis, Eliot and Ilana Glazer, Simon Racioppa, Justin Roiland and Ben Bayouth, Andy Samberg, Aisha Tyler, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. It is now screening on Prime.
Season 4
On June 10 2022, Amazon announced that The Boys had been renewed for a fourth season.
