The Boys showrunner has an "ending in mind", but won’t repeat a mistake he made with Supernatural

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Fans of The Boys will recall showrunner and creator Eric Kripke originally planned for the Prime Video superhero series to bow out afteꦛr five seasons.

Now, as Kripke tells 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:SFX magazine in the new issue, which features 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Boys season 4 on the cover, he may oversh🎐oot that initial promise.

"I am – without hyperbole – literally the worst person in history at predicting how long their show should go," Kripke says. "No one in the entire his🌳tory of the entertainment business has been more wrong than me, giving interview after interview on how I thought Supernatural should end after five years [the series went on for 15 seasons]." 

The CW series, starring Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles, is something Kripke (who stepped down as showrunner after its fifth season) is keen to learn from - even if he does have an endgame planned.

"So I would be crazy to speculate on how many seasons any show shouꦅld go. I’m not going to make that saꦺme mistake again. But, yes, I do have an ending in mind."

The Boys has been renewed for a fifth season, with the fourth season arriving this month in the wake of Gen V, the college-themed spin-off starring some of Vought's finest up-and-comers as the🌜y grappled with superpowered adolescence. 

"We're about a month into the writers' room right now, so we have some pretty cool notions," 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Kripke recently told ScreenRant of progress on The Boys season 5. "It's a very raw lava-esque deal right now. It hasn't hardened into anything, but I'm excited. I think there's some crazy shit's been talked about🔯, that's for sure."

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