Eric Kripke shares The Boys: Mexico update

In December of last year, Gael García Bernal announced a new spinoff series for The Boys, which is based in Mexico.

As The Boys universe grows with both the main show and the upcoming Gen V live-action spinoff, there's still some time before we get to experience the next major superhero-focused drama currently in the works.

In December of last year, Gael García Bernal announced his involvement in a new spinoff series for The Boys, which is based in Mexico. Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer, the writer of Blue Beetle, is said to be writing the series.

"I'm very excited about what we can do, because we can do something very interesting in Latin America," Bernal shared with Variety.

In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly preceding the release of The Boys season 4, Eric Kripke, the mastermind behind this TV series, mentions that they’re still "a while away"from seeing that become a reality.

“They are still making the deal with the writer for the pilot," Kripke told Entertainment Weekly.

"He has an amazing pitch, and we all giggle and think about how fun it would be. But there are a lot of hurdles for that show before it's a real show. He's got to write an amazing pilot, he's probably got to write an amazing episode 2. I think he can and he will, but we're a while away from truly starting to drop in the Easter eggs and the setups and stuff."

Kripke suggests that the main challenge for a spinoff to join The Boys universe lies in its ability to be compelling independently, even if the main series were absent.

"I really don't want people to feel they have to watch one [show] to understand the other," he said.

"I never want it to feel like homework or mandatory viewing. I think that's hurt Marvel in a certain amount of ways, and I don't want to do that. I want you to watch both shows. It certainly expands your enjoyment and experience of both shows because you understand some of the backstory of where things came from, but by no means do you have to."

In The Boys season 4, we find Billy Butcher, played by Karl Urban, grappling with a terminal illness and stumbling upon a man-made virus capable of killing supes.

This virus, significant in Gen V, arrives opportunistically as Homelander, portrayed by Antony Starr, continues to radicalize his extremist supporters in the name of supe supremacy.