In today’s Hollywood, if a TV show is a hit, it is a truth universally acknowledged that it will soon have a spinoff, and if possible, two or more. Just look what happened with The Witcher over on Netflix. The first season found an audience, and Netflix quickly got to work making a prequel series and a bunch of animated movies, all before the second season hit. We don’t want a successful TV show, we want an empire!
Amazon wanted a little bit longer to start franchising The Boys, its gleefully irreverent superhero satire, but it got there. The company is already working on a spinoff series set at a superhero college, and it’s now announced that it’s preparing an animated show called Diabolical, with eight episodes set in the demented world of the show.
Watch the announcement video below:
“There is no question that you guys are the greatest fans in the world,” says star Karl Urban (Billy Butcher). “As a special way of saying thank you to you, we’ve got a little surprise for you which is going to drop early next year… have asked a few of their celebrity mates to cook up eight deliciously unique, twisted, animated episodes set in the world of The Boys‘”
Those celebrity mates include Awkwafina, The Boys comic creator Garth Ennis, Broad City creator Ilana Glazer, Rick and Morty creator Justin Roiland, Andy Samberg and Aisha Taylor.
When does The Boys animated spinoff premiere on Amazon?
Kripke also weighed in:
"Surprise! We’re almost finished with eight episodes of our animated series, ‘Diabolical,’We gathered together some incredible creators and we gave them one rule… just kidding, there’s no rules. They blew the doors off it, delivering eight completely unexpected, funny, shocking, gory, moist, emotional episodes. You think ‘The Boys’ is nuts? Wait till you see this."
And Rogen and Goldberg got frank in another statement: “Ever since we saw the animated film The Animatrix, a series of short animated films set in the universe of The Matrix, we’ve wanted to rip it off. Today that dream has come true.”
We can’t be sure, but it sounds like Diabolical could arrive as early as next year. That’s when we’ll see the third season of The Boys as well. I wouldn’t be shocked if the college spinoff lands then too. It’s gonna be a Boys-heavy year!
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h/t Variety