James Gunn Says CREATURE COMMANDOS Animated Series Could Lead to a Feature Film
James Gunn’s new DCU is going to kick off with the release of the Creature Commandos animated series, which looks like an insanely fun and bonkers show!
We know that a lot of the characters introduced in this series will eventually find their way into live-action DCU projects and that those characters will be played by the actors who voiced them.
Now, Gunn is saying that the animated series could lead to a full-on Creature Commandos feature film. While talking to Collider in an interview, the filmmaker said:
"We might decide that we want to do something different with Creature Commandos. We might want to go off and make the Creature Commandos movie. I just know that I would love to have some of the same people involved, like Dean [Loren]."
He added: "I just haven’t had many situations where I was able to write something, give it to some people, and then they brought me back this beautiful work, that I was like 'Oh shit! Well I think we can make it better here and here and here, but it's innately good' and that's not always the case.
“A lot of times, as a screenwriter, people would bring me something that they had directed off of what I had written, and I’d go, 'I want to kill myself.'"
The series “tracks a secret team of incarcerated monsters recruited for missions deemed too dangerous for humans. When all else fails…they’re your last, worst option.”
Gunn previously said: “The new series picks up directly after our Peacemaker season one finale, which leaves Waller with her hands tied operationally, meaning that she’s no longer able to get away with putting human lives on the line to carry out her clandestine morally questionable missions. Instead, she recruits a ragtag band of misfits, not unlike the Suicide Squad and Peacemaker.”
The filmmaker went on to say that the Creature Commandos roster is made up of “actual literal monsters, and I can’t wait for you to meet them. Creating this series has been one of the absolute joys of my life.”
The team in the series consists of a human, a werewolf, a vampire, Frankenstein's monster, and a gorgon. The voice cast includes David Harbour as Eric Frankenstein, Sean Gunn as Weasel and GI Robot, Frank Grillo as Rick Flag Sr., Maria Bakalova as Princess Ilana Rostovic, Indira Varma as The Bride, Zoe Chao as Nina Mazursky, Alan Tudyk as Dr. Phosphorus, with Steve Agee reprising his role as John Economos from Peacemaker.
Creature Commandos will premiere on Max in December 5th, 2024.