The Boys may be ending this year, but this universe is far from being done. We aren’t sure if we are getting Gen V season three but we do know that Vought Rising, a prequel series about this evil corporation’s early days, is coming. The series takes place in the 1950s and features Homelander’s daddy Soldier Boy as well as Stormfront. While Soldier Boy is weird and mostly awkward in The Boys because he’s in a whole new time period, Vought Rising will show him in his ultimate element. And, according to star Jensen Ackles, Vought Rising puts Soldier Boy up front and is expected to run for multiple seasons.
“Listen, it’s going to feel familiar, as far as the format of it all, because I think that’s taking what really works with The Boys and trying to do something a little bit different with it, certainly as a period piece in the 1950s,” Ackles said in an interview with Collider, which we learned about via Deadline. “But I’ll speak personally. The Soldier Boy aspect of it is I’m used to playing and we’re used to seeing Soldier Boy in modern times, but he is a, I like to say, analog man in a digital world, so he’s a fish out of water with what we know of him now.”
We don’t know a ton about Soldier Boy’s past, but Vought Rising will give us a chance to dig into how he became such a jerk. “Now we’re getting to see him be relevant, getting to see him in his actual environment where he feels like this is where he belongs,” said Ackles. “He’s the top dog. But you also get to see the experience as to why he ended up the way he did. We get to kind of peel back the layers of what truly happened in that time.”
Unlike The Boys: Diabolical animated spinoff, the plan for Vought Rising is to run multiple seasons. There’s certainly enough drama and content in this universe to make that happen. Fans love (and love to hate) Soldier Boy, and it will be interesting to see other characters we know, like a younger Stan Edgar. Right now, there’s no release date for Vought Rising, but we’d imagine that it is coming sometime in 2027.