PEACEMAKER Season 2 Centers on Pocket Universes Introduced in SUPERMAN, James Gunn Confirms

James Gunn just dropped a big reveal about Peacemaker Season 2, and it’s going to shake up the DCU in some fun and wild ways. In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Gunn confirmed that the new season will dive deep into the concept of “pocket universes,” an idea first introduced in his upcoming Superman film.

When asked about the pocket universes, Gunn replied:

“The whole [second] season of Peacemaker revolves around that. Yes, absolutely it is. You’ll see in Peacemaker [season 2], too… It’s just Lex’s version is much jankier than the one in Peacemaker. The one in Peacemaker works better. What the whole season of Peacemaker revolves around is that.”

That means the show is going to play around with alternate realities, but Gunn wants fans to know this isn’t a typical multiverse mashup like Spider-Man: No Way Home. He described his approach as something more intimate:

“I think of Peacemaker as more of a high-concept story about one other world. It’s more akin to Philip Roth’s [1996 novel] The Counterlife than it is to the third Spider-Man movie… I love that movie, but it isn’t about that.

“It isn’t Deadpool & Wolverine. It’s really a very simple, simple story about [Chris Smith’s] relationship to this one other world.”

While Gunn is keeping big-picture DCU details under wraps, he recently teased that there’s a central narrative thread connecting these projects, something nobody has guessed yet.

“It’s not what anyone thinks. It’s not what anyone would guess. But I think if people watch the next season of Peacemaker, they’ll see where a lot of these things are going, and have a little bit more of a sense of maybe what can happen.”

The first trailer already teased the existence of another reality and even hinted at an alternate version of Peacemaker, possibly tying back to the old DCEU. A new trailer, currently playing exclusively in theaters, pushes that idea further, suggesting Peacemaker and his team will be hopping across realities, maybe even replacing their counterparts in the DCU timeline.

Peacemaker Season 2 premieres August 21 on HBO Max.