James Gunn Says Season 1 of PEACEMAKER Was an "Outlier" in the DCEU and It Fits in Better Now
The first episode of James Gunn’s Peacemaker Season 2 has premiered, and the show is now part of the DCU instead of DC’s previous DCEU, which included the Justice League.
Gunn launched the first episode, catching fans up with a “previously on the DCU,” recap about how Chris Smith (John Cena) and the 11th Street Kids, including field handler Emilia Harcourt (Jennifer Holland), black hat John Economos (Steve Agee), the masked Vigilante (Freddie Stroma), and Amanda Waller’s (Viola Davis) daughter Leota Adebayo (Danielle Brooks), saved the world as part of Project Butterfly.
Except that was the old DC Extended Universe (DCEU), not the new DC Universe (DCU), which kicked off with Creature Commandos and officially launched with Gunn’s Superman movie. Gunn erased the Justice League cameo that ended Peacemaker season 1, making it so that Leota asked her mother to call in the Justice Gang, who we met in Superman.
This is the metahuman team that includes Green Lantern Guy Gardner (Nathan Fillion), Mr. Terrific (Edi Gathegi), and Hawkgirl (Isabela Merced) as members, with Kryptonian cousins Superman (David Corenswet) and Supergirl (Milly Alcock) on reserve.
Gunn talked about the changes in a recent post on Threads, where he said:
“You could say there are [an] infinite amount of timelines and the DCU timeline is almost exactly the same as the [Peacemaker] Season 1 timeline with very very minor differences. I mean I think it’s fair to say a lot of aspects of Season 1 fit in even less with the DCEU than the DCU so season 1 is kind of an outlier to begin with.”
Gunn went on to talk about the series’ place in the DCU in another recent interview, stating:
“It isn’t the multiverse. This is more like a novel I really love: Philip Roth’s The Counterlife. It’s the idea of this one other life that’s very different from our life, and how you deal with this [alternate] version.
‘Peacemaker sees this reality that’s like his — but better in seemingly every way — and so, how does he deal with that from an emotional standpoint? And how does he face those ghosts from his past, of the people that he loved and killed? That’s what he’s dealing with, emotionally.”
New episodes of Peacemaker Season 2 premiere Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on HBO Max.
via: CB