• Prime Video has released the first trailer for Vought Rising, The Boys prequel series set in 1950s New York City.
• Jensen Ackles and Aya Cash return as Soldier Boy and Stormfront, both also serving as producers on the show.
• The series is described as a noir-style murder mystery exploring the twisted origins of Vought International.
• Paul Grellong serves as showrunner, with Eric Kripke, Seth Rogen, and Evan Goldberg among the executive producers.
• Vought Rising is set to premiere on Prime Video in 2027, with The Boys: Mexico also in development.

The Boys may be over, but the Vought Cinematic Universe is just getting started. Two days after the series finale of Prime Video’s superhero satire wrapped up its five-season run, Amazon dropped the first official trailer for Vought Rising — and it turns the clock back 76 years to show us exactly how this whole supe nightmare began.

Set in 1950s New York City, Vought Rising brings back Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy and Aya Cash as Clara Vought — the woman fans know better as Stormfront — in what creator Eric Kripke has described as “a twisted murder mystery about the origins of Vought in the 1950s, the early exploits of Soldier Boy, and the diabolical maneuvers of a Supe known to fans as Stormfront, who was then going by the name Clara Vought.”

The roughly minute-and-a-half teaser opens with a younger, wide-eyed Soldier Boy making his intentions clear. “I want to fight for the flag,” he says. “I want to be a hero.” It’s a far cry from the foul-mouthed, morally bankrupt version of the character we’ve come to know — and that gap between who he wanted to be and who he became is clearly the whole point.

The footage is atmospheric and retro, leaning into the period with a visual palette that’s brighter and more colorful than the grimy modern-day world of The Boys. But don’t let the vintage aesthetic fool you — it’s still very much in the franchise’s wheelhouse. Blood spatters, someone explodes, and Private Angel gets absolutely drenched in gore. The trailer also teases the early V-One experiments being conducted on would-be heroes, with results that look predictably chaotic. According to reports, some of those trials are taking place at Sage Grove Manor — likely the same facility as Sage Grove Center, which first appeared in The Boys Season 2.

A New Squad of First-Gen Supes

Alongside Ackles and Cash, the trailer introduces the first generation of superpowered heroes. Mason Dye returns as Bombsight, who got a brief introduction in The Boys Season 5. Joining him are Will Hochman as Torpedo and Elizabeth Posey as Private Angel — both characters who were namedropped in the main series but never fully explored. The trailer ends on Soldier Boy and Clara in conversation, with just enough heat between them to remind viewers that their relationship was never strictly professional. Soldier Boy revealed his feelings for her in Season 5, and Vought Rising will apparently dig into how that twisted romance developed.

The full cast is stacked. KiKi Layne, Cecily Strong, Mark Pellegrino, Brian J. Smith, Ethan Slater, James Wolk, David Hewlett, and Aaron Douglas are all on board, among others. Ackles and Cash also serve as producers. Paul Grellong, an EP on The Boys who wrote the Season 5 premiere among other episodes, takes over as showrunner. Eric Kripke, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and the rest of the original producing team are all executive producing.

Noir, Grit, and Satirical Teeth

Kripke has been candid about what makes Vought Rising feel distinct from its parent show. “It’s definitely got some Boys’ DNA in that it’s irreverent and graphic,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “But it has this sort of lovely, almost noir-like murder mystery — not Black Noir but actual noir. There are detectives and twists, and there’s a murder that then opens up into a bigger conspiracy.”

He’s also been deliberate about the period setting. “We’re trying to do a very gritty version of the ’50s,” Kripke explained. “Most people’s sense memory of the ’50s is from movies, which are very sanitized. We wanted dirty and grimy. There would be heroin dens and gay bars and this underbelly of popular culture at the time.” And yes, the satirical edge is still there — just pointed at different targets. “History is a circle,” he said, “and a lot of what was happening then are the same things that are happening now — from weaponized religion to the way media is self-absorbed and self-centered.”

Jensen Ackles, for his part, is excited to show a side of Soldier Boy fans haven’t seen. “In The Boys, in modern times, he’s a fish out of water — an analog guy trapped in a digital world,” Ackles told Entertainment Tonight. “So now we see him in his element. We see what made him who he was.”

One question the trailer pointedly doesn’t answer: whether the show will stick entirely to the 1950s or also pick up with Soldier Boy in the present day, given that he survived The Boys and was last seen being shoved back into his cryo chamber by Homelander. When Deadline pressed Kripke on the dual-timeline speculation, he offered only a two-word response: “No comment.” He did, however, tease that “we have a few surprises and tricks up our sleeve in V Rising” — which isn’t nothing.

The trailer had its first screening earlier this week at the theatrical premiere of The Boys series finale, before going wide online Friday morning. Vought Rising doesn’t have a specific premiere date yet beyond a 2027 window on Prime Video. And it won’t be the only new corner of this universe — The Boys: Mexico is also currently in development.

Soldier Boy wanted to be a hero. We’re about to find out, in full bloody detail, exactly how that worked out for him.

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• The Boys series finale, titled “Blood and Bone,” drops Wednesday on Prime Video
• Butcher declares “superheroes are done” in the new trailer, threatening to unleash the supe virus
• Eric Kripke confirmed Soldier Boy’s story ended in Episode 7 — Jensen Ackles won’t appear in the finale
• Frenchie’s death in the penultimate episode sets up Kimiko’s revenge arc heading into the final showdown
• Kripke says the finale will deliver both massive fights and genuine emotional payoff

Billy Butcher has made up his mind — and it’s not just Homelander he’s coming for. In the trailer for The Boys series finale, Butcher looks straight into the abyss and says what no one on his team wants to hear: “We need to end the whole bloody notion of Supes.” And then, with the kind of quiet menace that’s defined Karl Urban’s entire run on this show, he delivers the line that’s been ricocheting across the internet all week: “Superheroes are done.”

Prime Video dropped the teaser with a message as blunt as the show itself — “Can’t show ya much without spoilin’ the whole kit and caboodle. But Wednesday, we’re going all the way. Til the job’s f-kin’ done.” The finale is titled “Blood and Bone,” and if the trailer is any indication, that title is not metaphorical.

The footage is a lot to process. Starlight attacks the Deep inside the White House. Homelander approaches Ryan in what looks like another emotionally loaded confrontation between the show’s most fractured father-son relationship. Butcher stalks through the chaos wielding a crowbar. And somewhere in all of it, the supe virus — the nuclear option that’s been looming over Season 5 like a storm cloud — appears ready to be unleashed.

Whether Butcher actually goes through with it, and whether anyone can stop him if he does, is the central tension the finale has to resolve. The show has spent the better part of this season building Butcher not just as a hero on a mission but as someone who might be just as dangerous as the thing he’s trying to destroy.

Soldier Boy’s Story Is Already Over

One character fans were hoping to see in the finale won’t be making it. Showrunner Eric Kripke confirmed to Collider that Jensen Ackles filmed his last scene as Soldier Boy in Episode 7, and that’s where the character’s journey ends — permanently, in the most Homelander way imaginable.

Kripke described Homelander’s decision to put Soldier Boy into a permanent sleep as rooted entirely in abandonment trauma. “He just couldn’t let his dad leave again or be without his father again,” Kripke said. “His son abandoned him, and I just don’t think he could handle being abandoned by his father.” The result, in Homelander’s broken logic, is a kind of victory. “Now, Soldier Boy is there forever. His father will always be there, sleeping and won’t talk back,” Kripke explained. “It’s a big win for Homelander” — which tells you everything you need to know about how warped this character’s inner world really is.

The production team did sneak in one last gift for Supernatural fans. Ackles originally delivered a line referencing “the old Ford” in the script, but Kripke and director Phil Sgriccia quietly changed it in post. “Phil was like, ‘Should it be Impala?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, it probably should be Impala,'” Kripke recalled. Ackles looped the new word in — one final nod to Dean Winchester, tucked into Soldier Boy’s last moment on screen.

Everything the Finale Has to Answer

The episode is expected to run just over 60 minutes, which sounds like a lot until you start counting what it needs to resolve. Frenchie is dead — murdered by Homelander in the penultimate episode — and Kimiko is carrying both grief and what may be a devastating new weapon. In Episode 7, she underwent the same radiation experiment that gave Soldier Boy his power-stripping blasts, with the goal of being able to depower Homelander even with V1 in his blood. We don’t actually see the result. The finale will have to show us whether it worked, and whether Kimiko becomes the most important person in the room when the final fight goes down.

Then there’s Ryan, who’s spent most of Season 5 getting beaten bloody by Homelander and emotionally neglected by Butcher. The trailer shows him standing alongside Homelander, which could mean almost anything — loyalty, manipulation, or a son who’s simply run out of better options. His choice in the finale might matter more than anyone else’s.

Marie Moreau from the now-cancelled Gen V has also been positioned as a potential threat to Homelander, her blood manipulation powers theoretically another avenue to strip him of V1. But her appearances in Season 5 have been brief, and Kripke has acknowledged that the finale wasn’t adjusted after Gen V‘s cancellation — the producers had expected those characters to have a future beyond this episode. Whether her arc lands as satisfying or incomplete is one of the finale’s genuine wild cards.

Sister Sage remains a puzzle. Set up as the smartest person alive and a master manipulator, her Season 5 arc has frustrated some fans with seemingly out-of-character decisions. The finale will finally reveal whether she’s been playing a longer game — or whether the writing just didn’t serve her well enough.

And then there’s the question that sits underneath all of it, the one Stan Edgar raised in one of the season’s most chilling scenes: even if Homelander falls, Vought will survive. Corporate power doesn’t die when its figureheads do. Something else always takes their place. The finale has to decide whether The Boys ends with genuine hope or with the more uncomfortable truth that the machine just keeps running.

Kripke Says the Heart of the Show Comes Home

For all the carnage the trailer promises, Kripke has been insistent that the finale isn’t just about the spectacle. “People don’t always seem to feel this way, but to me, the show has always had a lot of heart and hope,” he said. He’s promised big fights and confrontations alongside what he calls genuine, honest emotion.

The finale will also screen in theaters in the US — a rare move for a streaming show, and a signal that Prime Video understands what this ending means to the people who’ve been watching since Season 1.

“Holy fuck. A literal ride,” Kripke told fans after an early screening. “Those who scored tickets are in for a treat. Thanks for a moment I’ll never forget.”

The Boys series finale, “Blood and Bone,” premieres Wednesday on Prime Video.

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