The Boys Presents: Diabolical will give fans of the core Prime Video series more bang for their buck when it comes to the franchise's over-the-top content.
"We can try things with these and be completely nuts with form and different style," The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke told Variety. "I love that shit for being able to really hopscotch and have radically different styles and just try things that are the craziest things we possibly can — even a little too crazy for the show because it’s animation and you can take it so much further with animation than you can with live-action. That part has been a blast. We look at it like, what ideas can we get out of it and how far can we push this whole universe? I think the animated version gives us a chance to do that."
Announced in December 2021, The Boys Presents: Diabolical is an eight-episode animated anthology-style spinoff of the main Boys series. The show is penned by The Boys producers Seth Rogen and Evan Golberg, with Awkwafina, Eliot and Ilana Glazer, Simon Racioppa, Justin Roiland and Ben Bayouth, Andy Samberg, Aisha Tyler and Garth Ennis, and features the voice talents of The Boys stars Antony Starr, Elisabeth Shue, Chace Crawford, Simon Pegg and Giancarlo Esposito, as well as Kumail Nanjiani, Ben Schwartz, Michael Cera, Kenan Thompson, Kevin Smith, Don Cheadle, the aforementioned Samberg, Tyler, Rogen, Roiland and many, many more.
"There is no question that you guys are the greatest fans in the world," The Boys star Karl Urban said when the animated spinoff was announced. "As a special way of saying thank you to you, we've got a little surprise for you which is going to drop early next year. While we've been hard at work on Season 3, [producers Eric Kripke, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg] have asked a few of their celebrity mates to cook up eight deliciously unique, twisted, animated episodes set in the world of The Boys. You might say, they're diabolical."
"Surprise! We're almost finished with eight episodes of our animated series, Diabolical," Kripke added. "We gathered together some incredible creators and we gave them one rule… just kidding, there's no rules. They blew the doors off it, delivering eight completely unexpected, funny, shocking, gory, moist, emotional episodes. You think The Boys is nuts? Wait till you see this."
The Boys Presents: Diabolical premieres March 4 on Prime Video.
Source: Variety