Prime Video’s The Boys spinoff, Gen V, explores how young superheroes learn to handle their special abilities. It’s not like they can practice setting themselves on fire or altering their size at a normal high school, so these budding superhero superstars attend Godolkin University. (Think Hogwarts but for supes.)
Prime Video promises this spinoff will retain the dark humor of The Boys while focusing on the next generation of supes.
“I think part of the thing that audiences love is that they’re taking the piss out of all of the exhaustive superhero explorations that we’ve seen and turning it all on its head,” explained Vernon Sanders, head of television at Amazon and MGM Studios in an interview with EW. “But I actually think they’ve done it so well that they have earned the right to expand and explore. So, the same irreverence that The Boys has is in Gen V.
Prime Video promises this spinoff will retain the dark humor of The Boys while focusing on the next generation of supes.
“I think part of the thing that audiences love is that they’re taking the piss out of all of the exhaustive superhero explorations that we’ve seen and turning it all on its head,” explained Vernon Sanders, head of television at Amazon and MGM Studios in an interview with EW. “But I actually think they’ve done it so well that they have earned the right to expand and explore. So, the same irreverence that The Boys has is in Gen V.
- 9/18/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Fans who have been eagerly anticipating the upcoming premiere of Prime Video’s “The Boys” spin-off “Gen V” get a first look at some of the collage supes we will meet in the new series which will debut on September 29, 2023!
Set in the diabolical world of The Boys, Gen V expands the universe to Godolkin University, the prestigious superhero-only college where students train to be the next generation of heroes—preferably with lucrative endorsements. You know what happens when supes go bad, but not all superheroes start out corrupt. Beyond the typical college chaos of finding oneself and partying, these kids are facing explosive situations … literally. As the students vie for popularity and good grades, it’s clear that the stakes are much higher when super powers are involved. When the group of young supes discover that something bigger and sinister is going on at school, they’re put to...
Set in the diabolical world of The Boys, Gen V expands the universe to Godolkin University, the prestigious superhero-only college where students train to be the next generation of heroes—preferably with lucrative endorsements. You know what happens when supes go bad, but not all superheroes start out corrupt. Beyond the typical college chaos of finding oneself and partying, these kids are facing explosive situations … literally. As the students vie for popularity and good grades, it’s clear that the stakes are much higher when super powers are involved. When the group of young supes discover that something bigger and sinister is going on at school, they’re put to...
- 8/23/2023
- by Kristyn Clarke
- Age of the Nerd
The universe of "The Boys" is expanding with "Gen V," a spin-off series set on a college campus full of superpowered students. The new trailer for the show reveals that this college is more like a raunchy, gory version of "The Hunger Games," with young heroes-in-training violently competing against each other for the top spot.
The show's protagonist Marie Moreau (Jaz Sinclair), for example, is vying to be the first freshman to get that top rank, and ultimately become the first Black woman in the Seven. Her fellow students appear to be more interested in using their Suped-up skills for partying, but it seems the moral and physical tests they face in college result in more than a few bloody incidents and/or murders.
While "Gen V" is something that "The Boys" showrunner Eric Kripke cooked up with fellow executive producers Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and Craig Rosenberg, the initial...
The show's protagonist Marie Moreau (Jaz Sinclair), for example, is vying to be the first freshman to get that top rank, and ultimately become the first Black woman in the Seven. Her fellow students appear to be more interested in using their Suped-up skills for partying, but it seems the moral and physical tests they face in college result in more than a few bloody incidents and/or murders.
While "Gen V" is something that "The Boys" showrunner Eric Kripke cooked up with fellow executive producers Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and Craig Rosenberg, the initial...
- 7/26/2023
- by Vanessa Armstrong
- Slash Film
Who's ready to see "The Boys" head to college? Amazon Prime Video's spin-off of the graphic superhero series is finally arriving this fall, and we finally have a first look at it. On Dec. 3, 2022, the streamer premiered a teaser trailer for the show, titled "Gen V," at the Brazilian Comic Con Experience, and the new series looks every bit as diabolical as the original. While the voiceover promises the students of Godolkin University that the campus will offer them a "safe space to thrive," it appears matriculating at this college is dangerous business.
On July 24, the streamer released another teaser trailer showing Marie Moreau, played by Jaz Sinclair, as a blood-bender who apparently has a "target on her back." We also catch glimpses of Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sean Patrick Thomas, and Clancy Brown.
The series preview, of course, features blood, guts, but also . . . puppets? Without context, it's hard to tell exactly...
On July 24, the streamer released another teaser trailer showing Marie Moreau, played by Jaz Sinclair, as a blood-bender who apparently has a "target on her back." We also catch glimpses of Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sean Patrick Thomas, and Clancy Brown.
The series preview, of course, features blood, guts, but also . . . puppets? Without context, it's hard to tell exactly...
- 7/25/2023
- by Perri Konecky
- Popsugar.com
"The Boys" is arguably the biggest superhero show on television. Now that the Arrowverse is dead and gone, and with Marvel shows being really more like limited series (with increasingly fewer people talking about them), Prime Video's satirical drama based on the comic book of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson reigns supreme.
Just like any good modern superhero title, "The Boys" is already big enough to be at its cinematic universe stage, with an animated spin-off releasing last year to some acclaim, a new one just around the corner — and possibly more in the future. Sure, it seems ironic that a show so focused on pointing out the evils of capitalism and mega corporations turning superhero stories into massive franchises is becoming a franchise of its own, but "The Boys" manages to justify its expansion thanks to sharp writing and a love for cartoonish absurdism.
Now,...
Just like any good modern superhero title, "The Boys" is already big enough to be at its cinematic universe stage, with an animated spin-off releasing last year to some acclaim, a new one just around the corner — and possibly more in the future. Sure, it seems ironic that a show so focused on pointing out the evils of capitalism and mega corporations turning superhero stories into massive franchises is becoming a franchise of its own, but "The Boys" manages to justify its expansion thanks to sharp writing and a love for cartoonish absurdism.
Now,...
- 7/24/2023
- by Rafael Motamayor
- Slash Film
School is in session for a new generation of superpowered individuals in Prime Video’s Gen V trailer. After the monumental success of Prime Video‘s The Boys, a new crop of potential heroes and villains rule the halls of a university designed to shape the alpha and omegas of tomorrow. Like any college setting, the Godolkin University campus houses students with big dreams, each capable of taking over the world if they apply themselves. Competition to be the best in class is fierce, and only some survive the experience. The halls run red with the blood of lesser classmen, and the race to become a member of the Seven, the world’s premiere superhero team, is as deadly as they come.
“From the world of The Boys comes Gen V, which explores the training of the first generation of superheroes to know about Compound V, and that their powers were injected into them,...
“From the world of The Boys comes Gen V, which explores the training of the first generation of superheroes to know about Compound V, and that their powers were injected into them,...
- 7/24/2023
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Beginning Friday, September 29, Prime Video will welcome fans of The Boys to Godolkin University in the spinoff series Gen V which follows a group of young Supes as they perfect their powers at the prestigious school, and a new trailer is teasing bloody good times. The good times are juxtaposed with an eerie sense of danger though as Marie Moreau (Jaz Sinclair) settles into academic life at the institution. During a sit down with what appears to be the Dean or some sort of authoritative figure at Godolkin (played by Shelley Conn), Marie is told that Godolkin has “trained the best and brightest young heroes since 1965” and that it’s “a safe space for you to thrive.” (Credit: Prime Video) “You could be the first top-ranked Freshman in history,” Conn’s character says enthusiastically. But Marie one-ups her, saying, “I think you meant to say first Black woman in The Seven.
- 7/24/2023
- TV Insider
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