There isn’t a quantity of sonic ache composer Christopher Lennertz gained’t endure for his bud of 30 years Eric Kripke, the present showrunner of The Boys. Lennertz beforehand listened to limitless quantities of boy band slop to pen the Tremendous-Candy single “Rock My Kiss” for season 3 and pushed himself to write down the gooiest sentimental observe possible for Starlight’s pop-star second, “By no means Really Vanish,” and now he’s again with season 4’s “Let’s Put the Christ Again in Christmas.”
“If there’s something I can say about The Boys, it’s that we do our analysis,” Lennertz tells Polygon, with minimal eye twitch.
Former fraternity brothers who embarked collectively into Hollywood with no cash and a excessive tolerance for Taco Bell, Lennertz and Kripke have fashioned a mind-meld rapport due to years on Supernatural and Revolution. So the author knew he may ship minimal instruction for what he needed for the proposed Vought on Ice sequence in season 4 episode 3, “We’ll Hold the Purple Flag Flying Right here,” Lennertz says.
“I get actually one brief paragraph that claims, ‘Homeland and Maeve as ice skaters come out, sing a Vaught-produced music about warfare on Christmas, there’s a nativity scene and Jesus, after which everyone will get killed.’ After which it says one thing about ‘placing Christ again in Christmas.’ That’s the entire task.”
The dynamic between showrunner and composer is extra about vibes. As Lennertz started work on “Let’s Put the Christ Again in Christmas,” he started watching video after video of Ice Capades, Disney on Ice, Frozen on Ice, and some other little bit of supply materials that would inform the completed dance. “I knew I wanted sleigh bells and I knew it wanted to be quick,” he says. Then the Vought of all of it pours in, which Kripke is nice for. Across the time Lennertz was matching excessive notes to laser sounds, his previous pal was sending him articles in regards to the newest anti-Christmas fearmongering. Lennertz remembers the information of Candace Cameron Bure’s take care of the Nice American Household community, and her stance towards Hallmark Channel’s LGBTQ+ illustration in Christmas motion pictures, as an exasperated-sigh-worthy beacon for the satire.
“[Eric] has little or no endurance for that sort of silliness, as do I,” Lennertz says. “We’re fairly open folks. In order that was type of our job from the very starting.”
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Lennertz’s massive dream for the sequence was to go larger than something The Boys had performed earlier than. This was not his first massive showstopper quantity — Lennertz beforehand labored with musical legends Alan Menken and Marc Shaiman to increase Hawkeye’s pretend Avengers present Rogers: The Musical into an precise stage occasion for Disney California Journey — and his thoughts instantly went to Broadway to fill the vocal roster for the music. Whereas the actors on display screen are all ice-skating professionals, the music touts Andrew Rannells (The E book of Mormon) as Homelander, Shoshana Bean (Hairspray, Hell’s Kitchen) as Maeve, and James Monroe Iglehart (Aladdin, Hamilton) as Jesus.
“I texted Eric, and I used to be like, ‘Can we shoot for large Broadway stars and make this a giant cameo factor?’” he remembers. “And as quickly as I acquired the permission for that, I’m like, Nicely, that’s gotta be Andrew. After which we acquired a Black Jesus in James Monroe Iglehart, who then in fact Vought makes right into a white Jesus later, which is so Vought. […] Fortunately, all of them mentioned sure. And so they have been all my first selection, each single one among them. I acquired actual fortunate.”
The completed model of “Let’s Put the Christ Again in Christmas” is painfully actual, so far as schmaltzy ice-skating dance numbers go. Then it simply turns into merely… painful. You’ll be able to watch the unstained model above, however for the entire bloody affair, head to Prime Video, the place the primary three episodes of The Boys season 4 are presently streaming.
