Amazon Studios' The Boys, currently on track for its second season, might get a new Season 3 cast member in the form of Negan himself, Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
According to Collider, Morgan had been personally advocating for a role on The Boys on Twitter. During an interview with showrunner Eric Kripke on whether it’s possible to add him to the story, Kripke responded that they’re already working on a character for Morgan. "There’s one role we’re already talking about," he said, explaining that the show must work around Morgan's current responsibilities with AMC's The Walking Dead. "But we already talked about one role, and there might be a potential other that we’re talking about. But we are, just this past week we were literally texting back and forth about trying to figure out how to get him on the show. I don’t think it’s a done deal yet, but the will is there, and we’re both talking about it."
Currently, nothing has been made official on whether Morgan will appear in Season 3 or who he might be playing. However, given the actor’s track record playing complex, yet violently amoral figures with a sick sense of humor like Negan on The Walking Dead and The Comedian in Zack Snyder’s Watchmen, he should have no problem matching The Boy’s graphic tone.
Based on the Wildstorm/Dynamite Entertainment comic series of the same name, The Boys takes place in a world where superheroes exist and are treated as both celebrities and highly commercialized products. However, while they're regarded as paragons of virtue publicly, these individuals are secretly corrupt and abuse their powers without suffering repercussions, with one citizen named Hughie (Jack Quaid) losing his girlfriend to the inadvertent antics of The Seven. Hughie is then recruited by ex-CIA agent Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) to join a vigilante group known as The Boys, who exist to keep the corrupt heroes in check.
Amazon's official synopsis for Season 2 of The Boys is below:
The even more intense, more insane season two finds The Boys on the run from the law, hunted by the Supes, and desperately trying to regroup and fight back against Vought. In hiding, Hughie (Jack Quaid), Mother’s Milk (Laz Alonso), Frenchie (Tomer Capon) and Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara) try to adjust to a new normal, with Butcher (Karl Urban) nowhere to be found. Meanwhile, Starlight (Erin Moriarty) must navigate her place in The Seven as Homelander (Antony Starr) sets his sights on taking complete control. His power is threatened with the addition of Stormfront (Aya Cash), a social media-savvy new Supe, who has an agenda of her own. On top of that, the Supervillain threat takes center stage and makes waves as Vought seeks to capitalize on the nation’s paranoia.
The Boys stars Karl Urban as Billy Butcher, Jack Quaid as Hughie, Laz Alonso as Mother's Milk, Tomer Kapon as Frenchie, Karen Fukuhara as the Female, Erin Moriarty as Annie January, Chace Crawford as the Deep, Antony Starr as Homelander, Aya Cash as Stormfront and Simon Pegg as Hughie's dad. Season 2 premieres Sept. 4 on Amazon Prime Video.