For therefore a few years, Jensen Ackles followers have been spoiled by Supernatural’s seemingly infinite run on The CW, and whereas it’s been nice seeing him pop up in a greater variety of tasks in recent times, I believe we will agree it’s simply not sufficient. Fortunately, he’ll be returning to The Boys and its upcoming Vought Rebellion spinoff because the villainous supe Soldier Boy, and might be reuniting with Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins in Season 5. And he apparently filmed a completely completely different collection within the meantime.
As we look ahead to Supernatural’s former co-stars to share the display screen collectively once more, Ackles dropped the celebratory information that his upcoming streaming thriller Countdown — the most recent from former Chicago Hearth showrunner Derek Haas — has now concluded filming. The actor shared the thrilling announcement on Instagram, together with a handful of behind-the-scenes pics that sadly don’t give followers a lot to take a position about. Right here’s how he optimistically worded issues:
COUNTDOWN Season 1 full. What a stupendous journey it has been these previous 6 months. An excellent crew, a improbable forged and a completely fantastic expertise. Thanks to Derek, JB, Marc, @primevideo and everybody who made this mission a actuality. I’ll see you all for season 2 🤞🏼
Right here we’re, nonetheless principally at nighttime about what to anticipate from Countdown, and Ackles is already getting his followers overrated a few potential second season? Let’s please not attempt to begin cashing that individual examine till Soldier Boy is again in uniform and making Billy Butcher’s life that rather more sophisticated.
Within the publish, the occasional Tracker visitor star gave props to Haas in addition to the Prime Video collection’ producers Marc Bienstock (a frequent M. Evening Shyamalan collaborator) and director Jonathan Brown (a vet of One Chicago and different community dramas). With that inventive workforce operating issues, Countdown tells the story of Ackles’ Mark Meachum, an LAPD officer who joins a secret process pressure of undercover brokers investigating a mysterious homicide.
The workforce, which is culled from all corners of legislation enforcement, makes progress with their investigation, however as soon as truths begin getting uncovered, the varied members private plights come into play, and so they need to get previous these particular person limitations to be able to work collectively and save each their metropolis and the tens of millions of people who reside there. No biggie. (Price noting: the brand new collection additionally stars The Final Ship vet Eric Dane and All Rise alum Jessica Camacho.)
Within the years since he hung up his demon-chasing boots as Dean Winchester, Jensen Ackles has leaned laborious on his innate superheroism, as complemented by plenty of Batman fan artwork and live-action rumors. He’s voiced Bruce Wayne and Batman throughout six completely different DC Leisure animated options, from Lengthy Halloween to Justice League: Disaster on Infinite Earths. After which in fact there’s his work as Soldier Boy on The Boys and Gen V for his former boss Eric Kripke.
Whereas we could not see The Boys‘ remaining season popping up on the 2025 TV schedule, given how effects-heavy that manufacturing is, this is hoping we’ll quickly be capable of catch Jensen Ackles protecting folks secure in Los Angeles when Countdown hits Prime Video in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later.