The next season of The Boys is delayed due to the writers’ strike.

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Having pre-empted part of the Patriot storyline, The Boys seems to be having trouble meeting its already scheduled Season 4 release date. This would be one of the most important installments of the franchise because it would show the stage where the heroes are against the real villains who would have been getting away with it for years, Patriot (Homelande) and Vought.

Well, the project would be affected by the current situation of Hollywood scriptwriterswho have long protested for justice to be carried out with the jobs of those who make it possible production scripts. In the following information, we talk more about this topic.

The Boys season 4 delayed until late 2023 or even 2024

The Boys season four delayed due to writers’ strike

Currently, the entertainment industry is in a critical situation due to the long-running Hollywood writers’ strike, which has been held for more than two months, affecting many pending productions. Apparently, they have not been put either benchmark solutions at the table and the protest would last longer than many expected.

like many other industry projects, The Boys, the acclaimed Prime Video series based on the comic of the same name has also been affected. Eric Kripke, the creator and showrunner of The Boys has shared an official tweet in which he confirms that season four of the series has suffered a significant delay

#TheBoys update! 1) When #Season4 drops depends on how long the #WGA Strike goes. No answer yet. Tell the studios to make a fair deal!

2) To take that sting off, here’s fun art from S4. We spend hours making ourselves laugh with this stuff & its never even on screen. #TheBoysTV pic.twitter.com/t9nSGmou8Z

— Eric Kripke (@therealKripke) June 28, 2023

TheBoys update! 1) When Season 4 drops depends on how long the #WGA Strike lasts. No answer yet. Tell the studios to make a fair deal! 2) To take that sting out, here’s some fun S4 art. We spend hours making each other laugh with these things and they’re not even on the screen. -Eric Kripke.

According to Kripke’s wordsthe fourth season of The Boys would suspend its release date until further notice, especially when the labor dispute is resolved of the scriptwriters. At the same time, he has mentioned that the good news is that filming has finished, so only the ADR phase would remain pending to conclude production.

ADR (Additional Dialogue Recording) is a process that is performed by post production of series and films. It is a stage that mainly consists of re-recording the audio of the scenes to have sound quality and correct audio problems in general. This is a phase that also requires time, although the fourth season of The Boys it would not be so far from being released if it weren’t for the aforementioned strike, since the writers are also an essential part of this process.

To end the tweet with a good taste in his mouth, he comments that to encourage fans he leaves a funny image on the box of the cereal de The Deep’s Choctopus Puffs from the universe of The Boys, which would be a product presented by the hero Profundo.

Has The Boys spinoff series “Gen V” been affected too?

Gen V is affected by the writers’ strike

Gen V is the spinoff de The Boys that would be focused on the academy where they train candidates to become professional heroes. The developers of the project have not yet mentioned anything else since its first trailer was revealed in December 2022. However, what we do know is that it would be a project that would be released in 2023 and, although a delay as such has not been confirmed, there is a possibility that it will also be delayed by the same situation that has affected the fourth season of The Boys.

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