As fans of Prime Video’s The Boys prepare for the series’ eventual end, one star, Laz Alonso, is hoping the finale receives an extension. Deadline reports the Avatar actor detailed on recent live-taping of the Happy Sad Confused podcast that he wants the show to end with a feature film. This contradicts showrunner Eric Kripke’s (Supernatural, Timeless) recent announcement that the series will warp with season five.
“Like, make the last episode of season 5 a cliffhanger and announce the film that we’ve been filming since the beginning of the series, pretty much,” Alonso explained according to Deadline. He’s been “unsuccessfully pitching” the idea to Kripke, hoping to create the parody film within the show, The Dawn of the Seven.
According to Deadline, Alonso, who plays The Boys’ grounded leader, Mother’s Milk, was joined by fellow co-stars Chace Crawford (Inheritance, Blood & Oil), Colby Minifie (Homebody, Fear the Walking Dead), Antony Starr (Cobweb, Without a Paddle), and newcomers Susan Heyward (Powers, Orange is the New Black) and Valorie Curry (Kara, The Tick). Starr, who portrays the Superman-esque villain, Homelander, explained his reasoning for ending the show next season.
“I think everyone wants to go out on a strong note, and I think there’s nothing worse — and I’ve been involved in a show that did this, it was fucking horrible — you do that last season and it’s shit,” Starr claimed via Deadline. “And you get remembered very poorly and you have to kind of wear that. I like to think that we will go out on a really strong note and I think we all deserve that.”
Last month, Kripke announced season five would end the series, something he had originally envisioned for the graphic novel adaptation.
“Always my plan, I just had to be cagey till I got the final OK from Vought. Thrilled to bring the story to a gory, epic, moist climax. Watch season 4 in 2 DAYS, cause the end has begun!” Kripke stated according to Deadline.
The last two episodes of season four of The Boys are available to stream on Thursdays only on Prime Video.