The Boysone of the most representative productions of Prime Video, is preparing to return to the screens with its fourth season in the month of June. Last year Gene Vits first live-action spin-off series, paved the way for what is to come and showed that there is still much to explore within its universe.
Along with the success that came with this production, it was also announced that a new spin-off set in Mexico was in the works, but since then news about it has been scarce. Now him showrunner from the main series, Eric Kripkeshed some light on this project and, although he acknowledged that there are very good ideas, he said that there may still be a long way to go before we see it materialized.
In a recent interview, Kripke explained that Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer (co-writer who has credits in Blue Beetle) is still working on the pilot episode and that is only the first step in a series of challenges that the series must go through. “He has an amazing proposal and we all laugh and think how fun it would be. But there are many obstacles before it becomes a real series. You have to write an amazing pilot, you probably have to write an amazing second episode. I think it can and will, but there’s still a while before we start dropping easter eggs and stuff.“, he acknowledged Kripke.
In turn, the creator of The Boys He assured that the new series will not continue if it is not strong enough to stand on its own. In this section he compared it with Gene V that was able to generate close links with the main series, but that does not force the viewer to have to see it in order to understand its universe. “I never want it to feel like a chore or required viewing. I think that has hurt Marvel in many ways and I don’t want to do that.“, complete.
In addition to the supervision of Kripke and from the script Dunnet-Alcocer, The Boys: Mexico has the executive production of Gael Garcia Bernal (Babel) and Diego Luna (Andor). As it happened in The Boys with the duo of producers composed of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldbergif the project prospers, it is expected that they will have some appearance on camera but in small roles.
In the short term, The Boys will return to Prime Video on June 13 and a fifth delivery has already been confirmed.
