According to Amazon’s trailer, The Boys stars Jesse T. Asher, Colby Minifie, and PJ Byrne are set to appear in Gen V.
The series is set in America’s only college for superheroes, where superheroes “test their physical, sexual, and moral limits as they compete for higher rankings in school.”
“Welcome to Godolkin University, a safe place for your development,” says a voice in the trailer against the backdrop of a school hallway where the word “murderer” is written in red paint.
The one-minute video, which features Chilling Adventures of Sabrina star Jazz Sinclair in the foreground, doesn’t reveal plot details, but does indicate that there’s going to be a lot of bloodshed.
Superpowered college students seem to be just as lightheartedly violent as the adult superheroes from the original series. Along with a shot of a character that looks like he’s been “marinated in a vat of blood” (reminiscent of The Boys protagonist Hughie Campbell’s many bloody mishaps), we also see brutally disembowelled puppets from an apparent parody of the musical Avenue Q (which itself is a Sesame Street spoof called Avenue V, wild college parties, and someone who can seemingly “shoot guts out of their hands” to choke opponents. Not bad.
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Also appearing in the trailer are Chance Perdomo, Liz Broadway, Shelley Conn, Maddy Phillips, London Thor, Derek Lu, Asa Hermann, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sean Patrick Thomas, and Marco Pigossi. Also set to appear on the show are Clancy Brown, Alexander Calvert, and Jason Ritter, as well as The Boys stars Jesse T. Asher, Colby Minifie, and P.J. Byrne, who will reprise their roles as their previous characters A-Train, Ashley Barrett, and Adam Burke, respectively. .
The series’ showrunners are Michelle Fazekas and Tara Butters. Eric Kripke, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver and Michaela Starr, among others, will also serve as executive producers on the series.
Amazon has yet to announce an official release date, but the show will premiere on Prime Video sometime in 2023, possibly before the fourth season of The Boys hits the screens.
Source: The Verge, The Hollywood Reporter
