Mason Dye lands role in ‘The Boys’ final season as Bombsight

The Boys universe just gained another supe.

Entertainment Weekly has learned that Mason Dye has been cast as a guest star in the R-rated superhero drama’s fifth and final season. A source close to the situation says Dye will then go on to be a series regular in the prequel spinoff Vought Rising — however, there is no official confirmation of his appearance in the upcoming show at this time.

Dye will play the character Bombsight. While details on his role are being kept under wraps, Bombsight has been mentioned before on The Boys as the third oldest known supe in history who was active in the ’50s. That timeline tracks if Dye will continue on in Vought Rising, which takes place in 1950s New York, about 70 years before the events of The Boys, and centers on Jensen Ackles‘ Soldier Boy and Aya Cash‘s Stormfront/Liberty. The Boys season 4 finale also teased the return of Solder Boy in the present, so if Bombsight shares history with him, the two supes could reunite onscreen there first.

Dye, 30, is best known for his role in season 4 of Netflix’s Stranger Things as high school basketball player turned vengeful mob leader Jason Carver. His breakout role was starring in Lifetime’s Flowers in the Attic movie adaptation of V. C. Andrews’ novel in 2014, and he went on to guest star in season 4 of Teen Wolf as as a teen assassin. He also had roles in Finding Carter, Major Crimes, Bosch, and The Goldbergs.

Showrunner Eric Kripke‘s The Boys season 5 will be the last for the Prime Video comic book series, as first revealed in June. Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Erin Moriarty, Antony Starr, Laz Alonso, Tomer Capone, Karen Fukuhara, Chace Crawford, Jessie T. Usher, Nathan Mitchell, Colby Minifie, Cameron Crovetti, Valorie Curry, and Susan Heyward are all expected to return, alongside newcomer Daveed Diggs, who EW previously revealed to be joining the cast as a series regular in a mystery role.

Kripke also confirmed to EW that he’s been in touch with Supernatural alum Jared Padalecki for a potential role, and that he’s hopeful it will come together, barring any unforeseen scheduling conflicts.

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The Boys will continue as a franchise with spinoff Gen V and The Boys Presents: Diabolical, as well as prequel series Vought Rising. Ackles announced news of the prequel during The Boys‘ Comic-Con panel in July, describing it as “a lurid pulp prequel set in New York City at the dawn of the ’50s about the humble beginnings of the Vought Corporation.”

Cash couldn’t be at the panel in person, but she did appear via video clip to say, “I am so excited about working with Jensen. I think this thing is going to be incredible. We’ve got everything from Judy Garland to Joe McCarthy. How? I don’t know, I didn’t write it. But I have read it, and it’s really, really good.”

In an earlier press release, Kripke and series showrunner and executive producer Paul Grellong described the upcoming series as “a twisted murder mystery about the origins of Vought in the 1950s, the early exploits of Soldier Boy, and the diabolical maneuvers of a Supe known to fans as Stormfront, who was then going by the name Clara Vought.”

“We cannot wait to blow your minds and trouble your souls with this salacious, grisly saga drenched in blood and Compound V,” they added.