Seth Rogen provides a major, hopeful update about The Boys Presents: Diabolical season 2. Rogen, who is an executive producer on The Boys, is one of the creators of the animated anthology series, which has given fans alternate showings of just how despicable Vought Industries can be. The cartoon series was a hit and remained true to the franchise by not only being extremely graphic, but also diabolically shocking.
As an executive producer and actor on the show, there are few people more tapped into The Boys franchise than Rogen. That's why Collider touched base with him recently about the status of Diabolical season 2. Check out what Rogen has to say below:
"I hope 'Diabolical' comes back. Actually, they bought some scripts for the next season, so we've been writing them. We're not 100% sure they will produce them, but if everything goes as planned, they will produce the scripts that we are writing right now."
How The Boys Diabolical Season 1 Revealed The Truth About Homelander's Origin
The Boys Presents: Diabolical has eight episodes with many stories that can seemingly be tied together by one theme: Vought and its inherent evilness. Everything from injecting babies with Compound V to what they do with the kids with less-than-ideal superpowers is touched on through various animation and storytelling styles. Although The Boys Presents: Diabolical visits characters like Billy Butcher before the events of The Boys, the last episode has perhaps the most loaded origin story. In addition to seeing early iterations of Stan Edgar, Madelyn Stillwell, and Black Noir, the last episode of the series reveals Homelander's origins.
He is introduced as he is in The Boys, as America's mightiest hero who is adored by the public. The difference here is it is Homelander's first media stint, and he is not the grizzled sociopath that appears on The Boys. In the first scene, Homelander talks about his origins, which consists of his love for baseball and his dad. That speech, however, is intercut with hectic shots of his child self being operated on and tormented by scientists. As the Diabolical episode progresses, Homelander is in a hostage situation in which neither the criminals nor the hostages are cooperating with him. This results in similar flashbacks to his real childhood, and him going on a murderous frenzy.
The Boys Presents: Diabolical offers some unique storytelling opportunities, and Rogen's update about a potential season 2 will no doubt elicit some excitement. The series is a really great way to flesh out the universe and characters of The Boys without having to carve out time and shoehorn origin stories into the live-action show. Hopefully, with a Boys Presents: Diabolical season 2, more characters will get fleshed out, adding more depth to The Boys season 4.
Source: Collider