‘The Boys’ getting spinoff series
“The Boys,” the superhero TV drama that films in Toronto, is getting a spinoff described as part college show, part “Hunger Games.”
Yet untitled, the new “irreverent, R-rated” show will be set at America’s only college for young adult superheroes, Amazon Studios said in a news release.
“Much like ‘Mork & Mindy’ spun off from ‘Happy Days’ — which is an insane and true fact — our spinoff will exist in the Vought Cinematic Universe, yet have a tone and style all its own,” said “Boys” showrunner Eric Kripke, referring to the giant corporation that controls the superheroes in the parent series.
“The Boys,” which received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Drama this year, imagines a world in which superheroes are corrupt and self-serving, opposed by a band of vigilantes.
Production recently wrapped on the third season.
Debra Yeo