Amazon debuted the teaser trailer for the fifth and final season of The Boys during their panel at Brazil’s CCXP, revealing it will premiere on Prime Video on Wednesday, April 8.
The official synopsis states, “In the fifth and final season, it’s Homelander’s world, completely subject to his erratic, egomaniacal whims. Hughie, Mother’s Milk, and Frenchie are imprisoned in a “Freedom Camp.” Annie struggles to mount a resistance against the overwhelming Supe force. Kimiko is nowhere to be found. But when Butcher reappears, ready and willing to use a virus that will wipe all Supes off the map, he sets in motion a chain of events that will forever change the world and everyone in it.” As well as all this, the trailer also gives us a brief look at Jared Padalecki (reunited here with showrunner and Supernatural creator Eric Kripke, and co-star Jensen Ackles) as a new, unnamed character.
The final season, which will consist of eight episodes, will have a two-part premiere, and continue once a week before the series finale on May 20. However, it won’t mark the end of the franchise, based on the original comic by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, with a prequel series, Vought Rising, in production, and The Boys: Mexico also in the works. (A third season of Gen V remains currently unconfirmed.) In the meantime, you can also check out the two pieces of key art released alongside the trailer:
In further news from CCXP, IGN reports Nicolas Cage will be playing Ben Reilly instead of Peter Parker in the Spider-Noir series. The live-action series, which will premiere on MGM+ and Prime Video outside the States next year, follows “an aging and down-on-his-luck private investigator in 1930s New York, who is forced to grapple with his past life as the city’s one and only superhero.” Cage previously voiced the Noir variant of Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. You can check out the teaser art, which much like how the show will be, is available to view in color and black-and-white:
