On August 21, we’ll see the grand return of John Cena in “Peacemaker” as the HBO Max series is back with Christopher Smith and the crew tackling new threats as they’ve been squarely placed within the new DC Comics Cinematic Universe.
James Gunn, who is co-director and showrunner, is dishing some details to Entertainment Weekly about the mature DC Comics project and how it’ll interconnect with the greater DCU, including his upcoming “Superman” reboot.
“I developed it along the way, in conjunction with the other DC projects that we’re doing, so it’s very much connected to ‘Superman’ and it’s very much connected to what comes after,” Gunn told EW that the show is likely going to hint at what comes next.
Some of those “Superman” connections were previously revealed as Nathan Fillion‘s Green Lantern/Guy Gardner, Isabela Merced‘s Hawkgirl, and Sean Gunn‘s Maxwell Lord show up in one of the show’s trailers as they make fun of Peacemaker.
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But Gunn is also teasing that the second season is going to see another “big cameo” toward the end of the series.
“We see a lot of different characters from Superman in the [season], [including] Isabela and Nathan and Sean, and then we see a bunch of other characters later on in the season from other parts of the DCU and from Superman. There might even be one really, really, really big cameo near the end of the show,” Gunn said.
We could speculate that after the first season, had The Flash, Aquaman, Superman, and Wonder Woman show up, Supes could make a second appearance (should we get our hopes up for a DCU Batman actor reveal?). Then again, since Jason Momoa was in the last season for that “Justice League” nod, it would be pretty funny to have him show up as the cosmic biker Lobo, as Momoa is playing the smart-mouthed alien bounty hunter in “Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow.”
The connections don’t end with just “Superman” as we’ll see Frank Grillo‘s Rick Flagg Sr. (also is part of the “Superman” lineup) in the show, who was first introduced to fans in the animated series “Creature Commandos,” the wacky group of obscure DC characters are also expected to get live-action counterparts, and could be contenders to land a cameo, too.
The rest of the “Peacemaker” cast features Danielle Brooks, Freddie Stroma, Jennifer Holland, Steve Agee, Robert Patrick, Nhut Le, Sol Rodríguez, David Denman, Tim Meadows, and Michael Rooker.
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It certainly feels like 2025 is going to be the year for the DCU to kick into gear, and ultimately, we’ll know how fans/audiences feel about this new era of DC Studios very soon.