“The Boys” star Jensen Ackles announces spinoff, “Vought Rising”, at Comic-Con

The new series will star Ackles and Aya Cash as their supes Soldier Boy and Stormfront.

Most of The Boys’ Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday morning was a victory lap celebrating the biggest moments of the recently-released season 4. Showrunner Eric Kripke couldn’t tease much about the next season, since he and the writers have only been working on it for two months. But the panel ended with a surprise cameo, who brought big news about another spinoff to further expand the universe of The Boys.

Moderator Jeffrey Dean Morgan was only too excited to bring out his Supernatural son Jensen Ackles in the final moments of the panel. Ackles’ return as Soldier Boy was teased at the end of season 4, and Kripke confirmed that he will indeed be a series regular in season 5. But that’s not all! Ackles will also be playing the character in a new prequel series called Vought Rising, set in the 1950s at the dawn of the superhero age.

Ackles teased that the new series "will be a lurid pulp prequel set in New York City at the dawn of the ‘50s about the humble beginnings of the Vought Corporation."

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Ackles will be joined by another former star of The Boys: Aya Cash, who will be reprising her role as Stormfront in the series. Although Stormfront was initially presented as a new member of the Seven, she was actually a long-lived Nazi and the very first subject of Frederick Vought’s superpower serum Compound V. So it makes sense that she would be a factor in this new ‘50s-set series.

Cash couldn’t be at the panel in person, but she did appear via video clip to further tease Vought Rising. “I am so excited about working with Jensen,” Cash said in the video. “I think this thing is gonna be incredible. We’ve got everything from Judy Garland to Joe McCarthy. How? I don’t know, I didn’t write it. But I have read it, and it’s really really good.”

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In a press release, Kripke and series showrunner and executive producer Paul Grellong described the upcoming series 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."

"We cannot wait to blow your minds and trouble your souls with this salacious, grisly saga drenched in blood and Compound V,” they added.

Vought Rising joins Gen V and The Boys Presents: Diabolical in the catalogue of The Boys spinoffs.

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