The Boys may have just aired its series finale, but Prime Video is wasting no time keeping the Vought Cinematic Universe alive.
The streamer dropped the first trailer for Vought Rising, the 1950s-set prequel series that charts the sinister origins of the Vought corporation and the dawn of the superhero age. Jensen Ackles returns as a young Soldier Boy, here going simply by Ben, suiting up for the first time in a retro green costume, wide-eyed and eager before the inevitable fall from grace. Alongside him is Aya Cash, back as Clara Vought, the Nazi wife of Vought founder Frederick Vought and the woman who would one day become Stormfront.
The trailer also offers the first glimpse at several new cast members. KiKi Layne and Jorden Myrie join the ensemble, with Myrie appearing in the footage as one of, if not the first, Black test subjects injected with V1, the original superpower-inducing serum that predated Compound V. Brian J. Smith appears to be playing a detective, while Nicolo Pasetti, seen in close proximity to Clara in the footage, may be portraying Frederick Vought himself, though that hasn’t been confirmed.
Also featured are Mason Dye returning as Bombsight, Will Hochman as Torpedo, and Elizabeth Posey as Private Angel. Ricky Staffieri rounds out the cast.
Described as a noir-tinged murder mystery set against the gritty underbelly of 1950s New York City, the series is being compared to L.A. Confidential — only grimier. “There would be heroin dens and gay bars and this underbelly of popular culture at the time,” executive producer Eric Kripke told The Hollywood Reporter. “History is a circle, and a lot of what was happening then are the same things that are happening now.”
Paul Grellong serves as showrunner and executive producer, with Kripke, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver, Neal H. Moritz, and others also executive producing. Ackles and Cash produce as well. The series is produced by Sony Pictures Television and Amazon MGM Studios.
Vought Rising premieres on Prime Video in 2027.