With The Boys wrapping its fifth and final season this week, the Vought Rising trailer makes one thing clear: Prime Video is not done digging through the corporate wreckage. The prequel series rewinds to 1950s New York City to explore the early days of Vought and the making of Jensen Ackles’ Soldier Boy, because apparently one morally ruined superhero empire was not enough.
The first trailer, released Friday morning, frames the new series as an origin story with polished suits, retro costumes, and deeply unethical science. Very on-brand.
What the trailer reveals about Vought’s early years
Vought Rising takes viewers back decades before Homelander, The Seven, and the public-relations machine that made superhero corruption look marketable. The new footage shows Vought’s roots in 1950s New York, where the company’s experiments are already crossing lines with impressive speed.
A key setting is Sage Grove Center, the psychiatric hospital previously seen in The Boys. In the trailer, scientists at the facility are shown experimenting on people in an effort to give them powers. That detail ties the prequel directly to the larger mythology of the franchise, where superhuman abilities are rarely presented as miracles and more often as products of corporate ambition, state violence, or both.
The trailer also shows Soldier Boy putting on his first retro-style costume. For viewers who know the character as a swaggering, violent relic of an earlier age, the prequel appears ready to explain how that relic was built.
Soldier Boy and Stormfront join forces
The footage also brings back Aya Cash as Stormfront, showing her teaming up with Soldier Boy for the first time. In The Boys, Stormfront became one of the main villains of Season 2 and was later exposed as a Nazi, a reveal that reframed her public image as just another Vought product with a very rotten foundation.
Pairing her with Soldier Boy in the 1950s gives the prequel a clear dramatic engine. Both characters carry the franchise’s interest in propaganda, power, and the way institutions dress up brutality as patriotism. Subtle, it is not. Then again, The Boys has never been shy about pointing at the monster and labeling the jar.
For fans, the emotional pull is not just nostalgia for familiar faces. It is the promise of seeing how Vought’s mythology was manufactured before it became a televised empire, and how people were turned into symbols long before anyone asked whether they should be.
Who is in the cast
The cast includes Mason Dye, Will Hochman, KiKi Layne, Jorden Myrie, Nicolo Pasetti, Elizabeth Posey, Ricky Staffieri, and Brian J. Smith.
Dye returns as Bombsight, a supe who appeared in Season 5 of The Boys. In that storyline, Bombsight briefly fought Soldier Boy before giving up the super strength and immortality caused by the V1 serum.
The new character lineup also includes:
- Elizabeth Posey as Private Angel, a nurse-inspired supe
- Will Hochman as Torpedo
- Mason Dye as Bombsight
The trailer suggests the series will lean into an earlier generation of supes, not as clean-cut heroes, but as prototypes for the Vought machine viewers already know. That is useful context for a franchise built on the idea that the branding is usually the least honest part.
When Vought Rising will be released
Vought Rising is scheduled to release in 2027 on Prime Video.
Ackles and Cash are not only returning on screen, they are also producers on the series. Paul Grellong will serve as showrunner and executive producer.
The executive producer roster also includes Eric Kripke, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver, Neal H. Moritz, Pavun Shetty, Ori Marmur, Ken Levin, Jason Netter, Garth Ennis, Darick Robertson, Michaela Starr, and Jim Barnes.
The series is produced by Sony Pictures Television and Amazon MGM Studios, in association with Kripke Enterprises, Point Grey Pictures, and Original Film.
For a franchise that has spent years turning superhero spectacle into a study of celebrity, violence, and corporate control, the prequel’s 1950s setting looks less like a detour and more like the missing paperwork. Vought did not become Vought overnight. Apparently, it required labs, costumes, propaganda, and a great many terrible decisions.
