The Boys creator Eric Kripke drops updates about Season 5 scripts and filming: Reports

Filming for the upcoming fifth season of The Boys is underway. In an interesting turn of events, The Boys creator Eric Kripke recently revealed in an interview with Forbes magazine that despite commencing filming, the script for the fifth season of The Boys hasn't yet reached its final stage. This popular Amazon Prime Video show likes to incorporate recent social and political events to make the narrative more compelling and contemporary.

The Boys has always been a show replete with political and social satire. This has, at times, led the creators to include overtly political references. The fourth season of The Boys had by far the most significant political overtures and consequently suffered from a paucity of positive reviews.

Meanwhile, Homelander and his ever-evolving team dubbed The Seven. They are fictional superheroes who act like they have the world's best interests at heart despite being riddled with several un-superhero-like characteristics.

Meanwhile, a group of outcasts band together to try to overthrow them, and much of the story depicts clear parallels to our own polarizing real world and the leaders who are gaining power.

Here's everything that we know.

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What did creator Eric Kripke say about The Boys season 5?

Eric Kripke revealed an important aspect of the storytelling process followed by him and his team of staff writers on The Boys, indicating that they always leave room for current and ongoing political events to be included in the narrative. In the interview with Forbes' Jeff Conway, Kripke noted about the fifth season:

"Yeah, I mean, they're not all written, by the way. They're about half-written. I mean, look - things adjust all the time. That happened in season one when like the "Me Too" movement broke in the middle of the season and we had to go back and rethink a lot of things. So, we're sort of used to this organic movement of the scripts always transforming a little bit, based on what's happening in the world."

He then added:

"So, that doesn't really scare us. That's pretty par for the course. You're always rewriting these things right up until the day before they shoot, and sometimes, the day they shoot. So, we're used to changing things as the world changes - but yes, we definitely adjust scripts as new events come to light."

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Eric Kripke opens up about the political nature of the show

Speaking in the same above-mentioned interview, Kripke addressed the issue of the Amazon Prime Video show often being labeled as an overtly political show. He commented:

"Look, I think The Boys probably, for better or worse, is a political show at this point. I think season four was political. I think the world has sort of grown to resemble the show more and more in a way that's not great. And so, we just sort of lean into it. I mean, the show is about why and how you should question your leaders. You should question anyone who stands in front of you. You should question anyone who is pitching you simple answers to complicated problems and who is saying that they're the only ones who can save you - like those are dangerous people."

He then went on to add:

"Obviously, we're not shy about saying that, but I take a little bit of pride in that for our bananas superhero show, we're one of the most current shows on TV, in terms of like reflecting exactly what's happening in the world at this moment, and that's great. It's amazing for a superhero show to be doing that. So, I'm really proud that we pulled that off."

The previous seasons of The Boys are exclusively available on Amazon Prime Video.