The Boys' Star Laz Alonso knows exactly how he wants The Boys' run to end

For some time now, it has been common knowledge that The Boys is set to end with a fifth and final season on Amazon Prime. It has always been spoken in a mantra that its showrunner, Eric Kripke, always mapped out a “rough idea” that the adaptation of the Dynamite comic series by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson would end after five seasons.

As specified by Deadline from a live platform via Happy Sad Confused, Laz Alonso, who portrays Mother’s Milk on the show, mentioned his attempt at pitching (though unsuccessful it seems) a final hurrah in the form of a major motion picture film to end The Boys, leaving the fifth and final season on a cliffhanger.

“Like, make the last episode of season 5 a cliffhanger and announce the film that we’ve been filming since the beginning of the series, pretty much,” Alonso said. “But [Kripke] always somehow gets out of that one.”

Deadline was coy about the idea of a film, joking about a full version of the “movie-within-a-movie” Dawn of the Seven when discussing an end for the show. Homelander actor, Antony Starr went on to underline that it was always Kripke’s intention to end the show with five seasons.

“I think everyone wants to go out on a strong note, and I think there’s nothing worse – and I’ve been involved in a show that did this, it was f****** horrible – you do that last season and it’s s***," Barr commented. “And you get remembered very poorly, and you have to kind of wear that. I like to think that we will go out on a really strong note, and I think we all deserve that.”

So should The Boys end with a movie? Before moving forward with this particular question, I would like to counter that there have been a lot of well-known IPs on the smaller screen that have been given theatrical release in film. Sex and the City comes to mind. Don’t get me started on Star Trek.

In terms of shows that were given definitive endings as a film, there are shows like Ray Donovan and Entourage that follow this category. So it’s possible, clearly, for The Boys to also be given the green light to have a feature film.

Now, if in another universe, there was a hypothetical chance that The Boys would end Season 5 on a cliffhanger and Amazon MGM plus Sony would give the green light for developing a film to end the main story arc, there would be some hoops to go through, such as analyzing whether there is a market for this and tracking box office potential.

Still, it we have to imagine the better play is for the show to end with a final season that brings things to a close in a series finale that is longer than the average episode of the show.