While all eyes are currently on the arrival of Superman this summer, another DCU project that is coming up fast is the second season of Peacemaker

. The John Cena-led series, which is a spinoff of The Suicide Squad and one of the only projects to have straddled the DCEU and DCU, is set to premiere Season 2 in August, and there are many fans wondering how the transition will impact the series.
While discussing her upcoming role in A Minecraft Movie with ScreenRant, Peacemaker returnee Danielle Brooks, who plays Leota Adebayo, explained how things are different this time around as part of the DCU. She said:

“You know, when we first did Season 1 of Peacemaker, it was during the pandemic, so we didn’t even do press for it. We didn’t have a premiere. The fans took to it, and they loved it. And now, James is taking over the DC Universe, so I don’t know what’s going to happen with Season 2. I do know that it’s done so well, and I’m excited for the response. I’m excited for the fans to watch it and see it. And I do feel like there’s more… It’s almost like when we were doing Orange Is the New Black on Netflix. We were the first kids to really make Netflix, and I kind of feel that same wave with James Gunn taking over. Peacemaker feels like that cool kid — one of his first babies in the DCU. So, I’m excited to see how that expands and grows. But I can’t wait to see Superman.”

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Although the shift from DCEU to DCU has been a bit of a muddled situation, with Peacemaker and Blue Beetle remaining in play while pretty much everything else from the last decade of DC storytelling fell by the wayside. Gunn has previously called the first season of Peacemaker, and The Suicide Squad before it, “unreliable memories” of the old DC franchise, and suggested that some things will be carried over, while others – such as that unexpected Justice League cameo from the Season 1 finale – will simply be ignored. He previously said:

“We know that Rick Flag Sr. is angry because his son was killed by Peacemaker, so we know that situation happened in the past, we have something to refer to to think of what it might be like that that happened, but that exists as canon because it was mentioned in Creature Commandos , not necessarily because it existed in Suicide Squad . I think of Suicide Squad and Peacemaker as unreliable memories of what happened in the DCU.”

Whether things ever truly line up is unlikely, but once Superman arrives in cinemas in July, and things really start moving forward for the DCU, everyone will soon get over the small mismatches – well, almost everyone, but there will always be those who pick fault with small recons and inconsistencies. Gunn clearly has a plan and a story to tell with Christopher Smith, and if it didn’t fit with the grand scheme of things, then it clearly would have gone the way of so many other DCEU offerings.
Source: ScreenRant

Peacemaker

Release Date

January 13, 2022

Network

HBO Max, Max

Directors

James Gunn, Brad Anderson, Rosemary Rodriguez