Recently came the announcement of a planned spin-off of Amazon’s “The Boys,” a new series which will center on young adult superheroes in college competing to eventually work for Vought.
The spin-off will be set in America’s only college for young adult superheroes, and is dubbed an irreverent, R-rated series that explores the lives of hormonal, competitive supes as they put their physical, sexual and moral boundaries to the test – less 90210, more Hunger Games.
Today, creator and showrunner Eric Kripke has revealed to The Wrap that the new series is “loosely inspired” by the G-Men, a parody of the “X-Men” from Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s original “The Boys” comic being produced by Amazon Studios and Sony Pictures Television.
Of the new series, Kripke says:
“Part of the G-Men is there’s sort of an educational, college experience. And we just used that as a jumping-off point, kind of similar to The Boys, where we sort of take an initial notion and then we are going to run with it in our own weird direction.
Me and Seth [Rogen] and Evan [Goldberg] and Craig Rosenberg, we don’t feel the need to jam spinoffs out there. We were just talking and we stumbled onto this idea and we were so excited about it, we took it to Amazon.
Because we think there’s a real opportunity to see another part of the Vought world. But probably, more importantly, to make a show that isn’t really made that often, which is what we love about it, which is, as The Boys is an unflinching look at reality, the goal for this is to make this superhero show one of the most realistic college shows anyone’s made. And really deal with real college issues and really explore what it’s like to be that age.”
Craig Rosenberg, an executive producer and writer on the main series, is writing the pilot for the potential spin-off and is set to act as showrunner and executive producer alongside Kripke, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver, Neal H. Moritz and Payun Shetty.