Canceled “Gen V” season 3 story could be salvaged in a future spinoff: ‘Brainstorming a couple different ideas’

Key Points

• VCU executive producer Eric Kripke says the team is “internally brainstorming a couple different ideas” that could help salvage the canceled Gen V season 3 concept.

• Amazon canceled the college-set spinoff after two seasons.

• Of the spinoffs they’re brainstorming, Kripke says, “All have the opportunity to absorb at least some of the Gen V gang.”

Eric Kripke, the showrunner of The Boys and a chief architect of the Vought Cinematic Universe (VCU), wants to make something perfectly clear: He did not cancel Gen V.

Last week, Amazon made the decision to end the college-set spinoff, an offshoot of the satirical R-rated superhero drama, after two seasons. Since then, Kripke, who serves as an executive producer on the project, says disgruntled viewers have been “flooding” his mentions on social media with insults.

“I did not cancel the show. One, I don’t have the power to do that,” he tells Entertainment Weekly. “Two, I was fighting to keep the show, almost more than anybody else on Earth. So I’m as bummed as everybody else out there.”

More than that, Kripke is now trying to find a way to keep at least the characters going somewhere in the VCU.

Showrun by Michelle Fazekas, Gen V season 1 introduced Marie Moreau (Jaz Sinclair), a supe with the power to manipulate and weaponize blood. She’s enrolled in Godolkin University, American’s premier college for supes, where she befriends other super-powered individuals her own age but becomes embroiled in a mystery surrounding off-the-books experimentation on kidnapped members of the student body.

The show’s storyline mingled with the events of The Boys, which then teed up a Gen V season 2 arc that revealed Marie and Homelander (Antony Starr) as the only two survivors of Project Odessa, a program dedicated to creating godlike supes. Marie and gender-shifting Jordan Li (London Thor) are now set to appear in later episodes of The Boys‘ fifth and final season (currently releasing weekly on Prime Video).

Kripke previously confirmed there was a Gen V season 3 concept that excited him. When asked what that concept was, he replies, “We’re still hopeful we can find a way to do it. So, unfortunately, I can’t share it.” He does, however, mention “this idea that Marie is powerful, but that’s not the end of her story. She has to learn how to control it.”

When pressed further on the matter, he adds, “It’s very early days, because we’re focusing on getting Vought Rising out into the world, but Amazon has expressed an interest and they want to hear more potential stories in the world. So we’re internally brainstorming a couple different ideas. We’ll see which ones get traction, but they all have the opportunity to absorb at least some of the Gen V gang, and that’s very much by design.”

So far, Vought Rising, the 1950s-set prequel starring Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy and Aya Cash as Clara Vought (the future Stormfront on The Boys), is the only spinoff remaining. It’s set to premiere sometime in 2027 with the potential to go on for multiple seasons.

Kripke calls the Gen V cancelation “a bummer” but explains “these things are based on business decisions that are above my pay grade, among Amazon.”

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“It’s based on amount of viewers versus how expensive the show is to make, and does it make business sense for them, ultimately?” he says. “And, unfortunately, they decided that it didn’t.”

Sinclair is one of the few Gen V stars that responded to the cancelation news. In a post on her Instagram Story, she wrote, “There’s so much I wanna (and will) say, but for today I just want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart. I’m so happy you’re here and I’m so grateful for this incredible experience.”

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