The debut trailer for the upcoming third season of Amazon Studios’ The Boys teased Karl Urban’s character Billy Butcher gaining superpowers. In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Urban said the dilemma is now what Butcher does with them.
“That’s the dilemma: does Butcher become a superhero or a supervillain?” Urban said. “In order to defeat the monster, do you become the monster? And I think that’s one of the cool things about this season is every character is faced with that choice. How far are they willing to go? What line are they willing to cross in order to achieve what they want to achieve?”
For fans of The Boys graphic novel, Butcher gaining superpowers will come as no surprise, as it’s a topic that gets handled throughout the graphic novel. Whether or not they will deviate much from the source material is unknown, however, so fans will have to tune in later this year to see.
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The Boys is an irreverent take on what happens when superheroes, who are as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians, and as revered as gods, abuse their superpowers rather than use them for good. It’s the powerless against the super powerful as The Boys embark on a heroic quest to expose the truth about the supergroup known as “The Seven.”
The Amazon Studios series stars Jack Quaid, Laz Alonso, Tomer Capon, Karen Fukuhara, and Karl Urban along with Erin Moriarty, Antony Starr, Dominique McElligott, Jessie T. Usher, Chace Crawford, and Nathan Mitchell. Claudia Doumit and Colby Minifie have both been upped to series regulars for Season 3 and are being joined by Supernatural’s Jensen Ackles as the infamous Soldier Boy and Katia Winter as Little Nina.
Also joining Season 3 are Miles Gaston Villaneuva (Law & Order True Crime) as Supersonic, Sean Patrick Flanery (The Boondock Saints) as Gunpowder, Nick Wechsler (Revenge) as Blue Hawk, and Laurie Holden (The Walking Dead) as Crimson Countess.
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The series, based on the comic book series created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, was created by Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen who are responsible for another subversive comic book-inspired series, AMC’s Preacher, and Supernatural creator Eric Kripke.
Season 1 and 2 are available for streaming on Prime Video.