The Amazon Prime series "The Boys" is emerging as a success, with a third season to follow. Find out who is playing and how things will continue here.
When the days get shorter and the nights get longer, it's there again: the time for long evenings with series and films.
“The Boys” comes in handy: The Amazon original series * about supposed superheroes who keep dark secrets behind the beautiful facade and abuse their powers.
But this should not go unpunished.
Anyone who has seen the second season of the series soon to end can breathe a sigh of relief:
the third season is coming!
You can find out when the time will come here
.
Superheroes who secretly use their powers for themselves and who are only after money: The comic book adaptation "The Boys" is anything but a typical hero story.
The Supes, as the superheroes scattered around the world are also called, can be celebrated as stars, stir the drum for all kinds of products and their meetings are reminiscent of business appointments, which are purely about profit maximization.
But when one of the Supes kills an innocent woman, her friend seeks revenge and explains the fight to the superheroes
- together with a self-appointed special department of the CIA, led by Billy Butcher (played by Karl Urban).
When does the third season of "The Boys" appear?
Showrunner and executive producer of “The Boys”, Eric Kripke, is “thrilled” that the series is entering its third round, according to British portal Express: “Amazon has made a bold and historic foray to expand its 'crazy' demographics , given the green light for the third season of The Boys, ”said the series maker.
An exact release date has not yet been set, but Kripke gives the first indications:
"We hope to shoot in early 2021, but that depends on a microscopic virus".
The coronavirus pandemic could also delay the shooting of the third season of "The Boys" and thus also the first broadcast.
The first season of "The Boys" premiered in July 2019, the second season started in September 2020. If filming for the third season can start as planned in 2021, a release date in summer 2021 could even be realistic.
But the series makers are still keeping a low profile here.
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Third Season of "The Boys": Who Will Play Again?
In terms of the cast, there is good news for the fans.
The main cast will remain the same for the third season of "The Boys".
That means: Karl Urban
plays
Billy Butcher
, Jack Quaid plays Hughie Campbell and Antony Starr plays one of the Supes leading roles "Homelander".
Erin Moriarty returns as "Starlight", Tomer Capon as Frenchie, Karen Fukuhara as "The Female" and Nathan Mitchell as "Black Noir".
Most likely, too: Chace Crawford as "The Deep", Jessie T. Usher as A-Train and Dominque McElligott as Queen Meave.
Survey on the subject
Third season of "The Boys": What is it about?
The series is based on the bestselling comic of the same name, on which the authors orient themselves.
But which stories the series makers will pick is not yet officially known.
A trailer for the third "The Boys" season has not yet been released.
But Vernon Sanders as one of the people in charge at Amazon describes it as follows, according to the Express: “Eric Kripke and the incredible cast of“ The Boys ”continue to deliver a wild and action-packed series full of surprises and unpredictable moments that made the series a worldwide hit to have".
He is also curious: "
We couldn't be more excited to see where Eric is taking the boys and superheroes in the third season,
" says Kripke.
(Jg) * Merkur.de is part of the Germany-wide Ippen-Digital editorial network
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