Amazon has given out an early season two renewal to The Boys ahead of its series premiere this week. The news was announced on Friday at San Diego Comic-Con.
The announcement was made during the series’ panel in Ballroom 20 which featured executive producers Seth Rogen and Eric Kripke and series stars Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Tomer Capon, Karen Fukuhara, and Elisabeth Shue.
The Boys is based the comic book by Garth Ennis (Preacher) and Darick Robertson and created by Supernatural creator and Timeless co-creator Kripke. The show is a bit of an irreverent take on what happens when superheroes – who are as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians and as revered as gods – abuse their superpowers rather than use them for good. It’s the powerless against the super-powerful as the Boys embark on a heroic quest to expose the truth about The Seven, and Vought – the multibillion-dollar conglomerate that manages these superheroes and covers up all of their dirty secrets. “The Boys” consist of Hughie (Quaid), Billy Butcher (Urban), Mother’s Milk (Alonso), Frenchie (Capon), and The Female (Fukuhara) while The Supes of The Seven is led by Homelander (Starr), who is joined by Starlight (Moriarty), Queen Maeve (Dominique McElligott), A-Train (Usher), The Deep (Crawford) and Black Noir (Nathan Mitchell).
The series premiere of The Boys is Friday, July 26 and will get an eight-episode run.
