Amazon has provided its first visual teaser for The Boys season 3 featuring Jensen Ackles in full costume as Soldier Boy.
Inspired by Captain America, Soldier Boy is a legacy mantle which has seen three different iterations in the original graphic novels written by Garthe Ennis and illustrated by Darick Robertson. The version which Jensen Ackles will portray in The Boys season 3 appears to be the first: among the first successful applications of Dr Voughtโs Compound V, World War II veteran famed for killing German soldiers by the dozens, and the leader of a team preceding The Seven, Payback.
Armed with distinctive shield โ not entirely unlike his Marvel counterpart โ it has been hinted that Soldier Boy will be โmuch stronger, darker, and more menacing supeโ than the one portrayed in the original source material. Homelander before Homelander with the same ego and ambition, show creator Eric Kripke has previously stated.
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โSoldier Boy is the original bad ass,โ says costume designer Laura Jean Shannon.
โOur goal was to highlight a bygone era of overt masculinity and grit. With that pedigree we dove headfirst into baking in an all-American quality grounded in a military soldierโs practicality with a heavy dose of old school cowboy swagger.โ
โWe knew that the actor had to have Steve McQueen looks and chops with a John Wayne attitude โ luckily, Jensen Ackles embodies all of that.โ
โIt took six months but the experience surpassed Jensenโs expectations,โ says Kripke.
โAnd if you think the photos are cool, just wait till you see Jensen in action.โ
โEvery dent, every scratch, every mark tells a story,โ the Supernatural star writes on Instagram.
โA story that ends with me winning.โ
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While Amazon Prime Videoโs hit superhero property has never shied away from graphic material, The Boys season 3 promises to up the stakes on just about every front โ from sex to violence and everything else in between. During a recent interview with Collider, series regular Laz Alonso (the actor behind Marvin T. Milk / Motherโs Milk) revealed the upcoming instalment will quite literally be three times as bloody as season 2.
โIโll put it to you this way,โ teases Alonso.
โI was talking to the head makeup artist and sheโs in charge of ordering the blood โ thatโs one of her many jobs. She told me that all of season 2.โ
โWhen you talk about bulk, I donโt think they used over a gallon of blood in season 2, believe it or not. [The Boys] season 3, weโre already at three and a half gallons of blood [so far]. So that should give you a little indication of where itโs going.โ
Earlier this year, Eric Kripke confirmed The Boys season 3 will also be tackling a notoriously R-rated X-rated storyline: โHerogasmโ. Slated for the sixth episode of season 3, Kripke announced the wildly NSFW event via Twitter accompanied by a picture of the script written by Jessica Chou in exceedingly appropriate fashion.
โFrom day one, everyone dared me to make this episode,โ writes Kripke.
โChallenge met, motherfuckers.โ
The story arc depicts Billy Butcher (Karl Urban), Hughie Campbell (Jack Quaid), Motherโs Milk (Laz Alonso), and Frenchie (Tomer Capon) sneaking into a secret annual party hosted by Vought โ the eponymous โHerogasmโ event. As briefly alluded to in the pilot episodeโs club scene, this raunchy and off-the-rails affair involves an entire weekend of superhero orgies, drug use, and general debauchery on a secluded island resort, away from the publicโs prying eyes.
Last month, it was announced the production for The Boys season 3 had officially wrapped. Taking into account how season 1 premiered in July 2019 and season 2 premiered in September 2020, based on the seriesโ production historyโฆ The Boys season 3 may very well be staring at the barrel of a November 2021 release date. To avoid getting your hopes up and hearts broken, however, itโd be best to widen those parameters (late 2021/early 2022).
