Billy Butcher gets a bloody first look in The Boys season 5 as the showrunner pays tribute to the cast for "saving" him
Dec. 5, 2024The final season is now filming
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The Boys season 5has started filming and to tease what they’ve been cooking up, Karl Urban has shared a typically Billy Butcher look at the leader of the Boys onInstagram, covered in blood and holding up five fingers.
Given this is the final season, we won’t lie… we’re a bit worried, as anything could happen – and Billy has been in the firing zone since season 1. However, as several commenters pointed out, the Supe killer is often covered in blood in the show for a whole host of reasons.
“Judging from the blood… who blew up Kimiko this time lol,” one joked, while another added: “You just started and already covered in blood. YES!”. Meanwhile Prime Video simply commented: “Bloody excited”.
That’s not the only the behind-the-scenes look we’ve seen of season 5 either as showrunner Eric Kripke also shared a snap of him, Antony Starr as Homelander, Nate Mitchell as Black Noir, and Chase Crawford as The Deep. “They saved me. They saved me in every way a man can be saved. Feast your eyes on the first #Season5 #BTS pic!.” Kripke wrote on Twitter.
The Boys season 5 will be the final season of the superhero show, and Kripke has been open about his worries for the Prime Video drama. Hesaid in a recent interviewthat he “lives in absolute terror of becoming the thing we’ve been satirizing for five years.” Speaking to Collider, the showrunner said: “The thing about The Boys is that it’s punk rock, and it hurts extra hard when punk rockers sell out. I’m really working hard not to sell out.”
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