• 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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