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The Boys season 4<\/a> is alright. Folks who have only just realized they were being made fun of hate it, but otherwise it’s a solid set of episodes. That said, the show has clearly grown too attached to these characters and the universe, with one spinoff already out (and a second season in the works<\/a>) plus another one prepping to go into production<\/a>. Some members of the cast, however, want to take things even further and make a movie to wrap the main series up.<\/p>\n

This came up during an in-person conversation with Josh Horowitz for the Happy Sad Confused podcast<\/a>, where Laz Alonso (Mother’s Milk) and Antony Starr<\/a> (Homelander) expressed their interest in ending the five-season show<\/a> on the big screen.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been unsuccessfully pitching that we end the show with a feature film to Eric [Kripke]… Like, make the last episode of season five the cliffhanger and announce the film that we’ve been filming since the beginning of the series, pretty much, you know. But he always somehow gets out of that one and doesn’t,” Alonso explained. Starr promptly asked his co-star whether that would be a full theatrical release and received a positive answer. “Okay, I’m down,” the actor behind Homelander concluded.<\/p>\n

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The Boys season 4 is alright. Folks who have only just realized they were being made fun of hate it, but otherwise it’s a solid set of episodes. That said, the show has clearly grown too attached to these characters and the universe, with one spinoff already out (and a second season in the works) plus another one prepping to go into production. Some members of the cast, however, want to take things even further and make a movie to wrap the main series up. This came up during an in-person conversation with Josh Horowitz for the Happy Sad Confused podcast, where Laz Alonso (Mother’s Milk) and Antony Starr (Homelander) expressed their interest in ending the five-season show on the big screen. “I’ve been unsuccessfully…<\/p>\n

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