Eric Kripke, the creator and showrunner of The Boys, simply gave a serious replace concerning the upcoming spinoff, The Boys: Mexico. The superhero franchise on Amazon Prime Video started in 2019, with post-production on the fifth and remaining season underway.
Since then, the Boys universe has expanded by way of the animated collection The Boys Presents: Diabolical and the live-action present Gen V, which is about to premiere its second season.
Extra spinoffs are at the moment being developed, together with a prequel known as Vought Rising with Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy and Aya Money as Stormfront from the unique collection, and spinoff The Boys: Mexico, which is being produced by Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal. Premiere dates have not been introduced for both present but.
Whereas being interviewed by Collider, Kripke revealed an replace about The Boys: Mexico. He confirmed that the pilot is at the moment in improvement.
Whereas he did not know what the longer term would maintain for this collection, he confidently claimed that Mexico meets the excessive requirements that the entire Boys spinoffs want to realize; the script for the pilot is “good” and “super fun.”
The Boys: Mexico has a “totally different tone” whereas nonetheless feeling at dwelling within the universe of The Boys franchise. As for Luna and García Bernal’s involvement, Kripke stated that they’re “really engaged” with the venture.
“The pilot of [The] Boys: Mexico is being developed right now. It’s very cool. I mean, who knows — obviously you never know, but I can say that the world itself meets the standard of all of our spin-offs. It’s our world but a totally different tone, and it’s super fun. Gael and Diego are executive producers, which is amazing and [they] really engaged with it, so — short answer is we’ll see, but I think the script is good.”
What Eric Kripke’s Thrilling Boys: Mexico Replace Means
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Primarily based on Kripke’s replace, it is clear that The Boys: Mexico remains to be within the very early phases of improvement. Solely the pilot is being created in the meanwhile, so this spinoff might be no less than a pair years away from premiering on Prime Video.
The showrunner made positive so as to add that Mexico meets their excessive requirements. That is an necessary level to make. It is easy for studios to lean on spinoffs when a franchise is profitable, however that does not imply they’re high quality reveals.
Thankfully, The Boys, The Boys Presents: Diabolical and Gen V all have very excessive Rotten Tomatoes scores (93%, 97% and 97%, respectively, to be precise).
The producers creating all of the reveals within the Boys franchise have an amazing observe file of success, and Kripke’s replace proved that they do not plan on messing that up anytime quickly.
Our Take On The Boys: Mexico’s “Cool” & “Super Fun” Pilot
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At this level, there are a number of Boys spinoffs within the works, a few of which have already launched and others in pre-production. With that many reveals in the identical universe, every one must be distinctive and stand aside from all the opposite ones.
Diabolical had the excellence of being an animated venture, which was enjoyable to see. Gen V is about at a university and brings a younger vibe the franchise. The Boys: Mexico is predicted to be essentially the most distinctive one of all of them since will probably be the primary spinoff set outdoors america.
Luna has starred in such motion pictures as Y tu mamá también, The Ebook of Life and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, in addition to the spinoff Andor, whereas García Bernal is understood for Y tu mamá también, Unhealthy Training, Babel, Coco, Mozart within the Jungle and Marvel’s Werewolf by Night time.
It is unlikely that both of these award-winning actors would connect themselves to The Boys: Mexico as government producers in the event that they weren’t dedicated to creating an distinctive present.
Gen V season 2 premieres Wednesday, September 27 on Amazon Prime Video.
The Boys: Mexico
Showrunner
Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer
Writers
Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer
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The Boys
