by Ani Bundel
Day two of San Diego Comedian-Con 2024 kicked off with a double dose of The Boys and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy panel in Corridor H, a part of Amazon Prime Video taking on the most important panel room of the venue. First up was The Boys, which opened with a full-blown musical quantity. A whole phalanx of forged members got here out and sang with the official movies projected on the partitions across the room. Maybe it will be the one approach to see a life-sized efficiency of the supes on ice (The Boys gained’t be staging their model of Rogers: The Musical anytime quickly, regardless of Amazon’s billions.)
After the Broadway-by-way-of-Corridor H, it was time to introduce large-scale together with showrunner and government producer Eric Kripke and the dozen forged members who make up the ensemble of the satirical collection. Moderated by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, the panelists included Jack Quaid, Erin Moriarty, Karen Fukuhara, Tomer Capone, Lazy Alonso, Jessie T Usher, Claudia Doumit, Chace Crawford, Antony Starr, Valorie Curry, and Susan Heyward.
Unsurprisingly, the panel began with the query of what had shocked the actors most, which after all, then devolved into R-rated discussions about “butt stuff” and “breast milk.” Quaid summed it up properly: “It’s a present about superheroes, however a f***d up one.”
This was the primary time The Boys had paneled at SDCC since 2019, which was earlier than the collection debuted, so the panel questions didn’t simply cowl the present Season 4 however all the present up to now. For a collection about black humor, the actors (and Kripke) have been humorous themselves, cracking jokes about discovering their characters’ trajectories, discovering a number of the scenes they’d be filming, and simply how far the present was prepared to go.
Contemplating The Boys’ on-line repute, it was not stunning that sure viewers members thought it acceptable to heckle the panel. Morgan was invaluable in conserving the gang in test, turning and giving anybody the evil eye who dared to aim to derail his panel.
After all, the primary questions have been about Homelander and the characters coping with his ego and out-of-control conduct. Season 4 spelled out simply how a lot of a villain the character is (a lot to the misery of sure sections of the fandom), and for many of the forged, it was past time for them to have the ability to take him on.
Then it was time for blooper reels and ridiculousness, as every of the actors broke in flip on the ludicrous moments of the brand new season earlier than transferring on to the viewers questions, which Morgan learn aloud, proving that Amazon was going to be very cautious to display screen what acquired requested within the room. (That being mentioned, when the questions began, Crawford identified that considered one of them got here from a hardcore fan who attends each panel dressed as a feminine model of Homelander and had her arise. It was an additional good contact in any case the boys interrupting from the peanut gallery.)
The panel additionally confirmed the primary take a look at Gen V Season 2, which followers who didn’t make it in will hope arrives on YouTube quickly, earlier than bringing out Season 5’s vital addition to the present, Jensen Ackles, the place It was confirmed that his character, Soldier Boy, could be a collection common for the fifth and remaining season, although no phrase on if he’ll seem within the character’s well-known codpiece.
He then revealed a brand new spinoff prequel, Vought Rising, set within the Nineteen Fifties and chronicling the corporate’s rise, which he’ll star in together with Aya Money, who returns as Stormfront.
Keep tuned for extra SDCC ’24 protection from The Beat.
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