The Boys isn’t new to aligning with and even predicting certain headlines in the news, as creator and showrunner Eric Kripke shared a specific example of Homelander (Anthony Starr) aligning with and preceding Donald Trump’s famous AI Jesus photo.
Kripke, supervising stunt coordinator and director John Koyama and actors Jessie T. Usher and Karen Fukuhara were at Deadline’s Contenders Television event to speak about the fifth and final season of the comics-based Prime Video show.
“The five seasons has been the slow descent into madness for Homelander, and this season we thought, ‘Well, let’s take him the craziest he could possibly get,’ which is he decided that he wants to be a god,” Kripke said. “I thought that was the craziest thing that could ever potentially happen, until Trump released an image of himself as God 48 hours before we aired. Can I just say, they’re
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