

Warning: this article contains minor spoilers for Prime Video’s The Boys television series.
Actors Mason Dye (Stranger Things, Truth or Dare) and KiKi Layne (If Beale Street Could Talk, The Old Guard) will join the cast of Prime Video’s Vought Rising, a previously announced prequel series that will serve as a companion to satirical superhero drama The Boys, as series regulars. The news comes courtesy of a Thursday report by Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva.
Per Deadline’s report, Vought Rising is “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.” Within The Boys universe, Vought is a sinister megacorporation that is responsible for the creation of nearly all of the world’s superheroes and concealing their misdeeds from the public. It follows, then, that the show’s two leads, Jensen Ackles’ Soldier Boy and Aya Cash’s Stormfront, have plenty of skeletons in their closet — Soldier Boy is aggressively unstable, while Stormfront is an outright Nazi.
Whether Dye and Layne will be portraying corrupt supers like Soldier Boy and Stormfront or those opposing them is unclear; a previous report stated that Dye will play a superhero known as Bombsight in season five of The Boys, but additional information has been scant as Prime Video has remained tight-lipped about the series.
Mason Dye is most likely familiar to modern audiences for his role as minor antagonist Jason Carver in the most recent season of Netflix’s Stranger Things, but he also played the assassin Garrett in MTV’s Teen Wolf. Layne, meanwhile, won critical acclaim for her leading role in 2019’s If Beale Street Could Talk, and most recently starred as Nile Freeman in the newest entry of another superhero franchise, Netflix’s The Old Guard 2.
Vought Rising will release on Prime Video at an unknown date, while season five of The Boys will premiere sometime next year.