With filming on peacekeeper coming to an end this month in Vancouver, rich shared a first look at James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad spin-off series in which the filmmaker and his protagonist John Cena in full (blood) costume as the titular vigilante.
“Peacemaker is a piece of shit. He’s not a good guy. And he’s wearing the craziest costume you’ve ever seen in your life,” Gunn tells the outlet. “Peacemaker has a clear set of ideals that I find very interesting. You know, “I want peace, no matter how many men, women and children I have to kill to get it.” Sounds like nonsense, but it also makes a lot of sense. And you can see in John’s performance how he doesn’t feel right about it – something I thought was the beginning of an entire eight-episode show.”
“He lives in the world of Superman, Batman and Aquaman, and it’s not easy for him,” Gunn continues. “He represents a segment of the world’s population that is problematic to say the least and puts him in a situation where he has to face the choices he has made all his life and the extremes of his views.”
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This guy is a rowdy, annoying bastard,” adds Cena, making his Peacemaker debut this summer in The Suicide Squad. “That sucks. But why? At what point did he become such an asshole and what does that mean? There’s a lot to dive into.”
peacekeeper sees John Cena reprise his role from The Suicide Squad as Christopher Smith, the titular ‘Peacemaker’, alongside co-stars Steve Agee (John Economos) and Jennifer Holland (Emilia Harcourt). New additions include Danielle Brooks (Orange is the new black), Robert Patrick (Terminator 2: Judgment Day), Chukwudi Iwuji (News from the world), Lochlyn Munro (Scary Movie), Annie Chang (Shades of blue), Christopher Heyerdahl (Van Helsing), Elizabeth Ludlow (The living Dead), Rizwan Manji (Schitt’s Creek), Nhut Le (Raven’s house), Alison Araya (Riverdale), Lenny Jacobson (For all mankind), and Freddie Stroma (Bridgerton).
peacekeeper premieres on HBO Max in January 2022. The Suicide Squad meanwhile, will open in the UK on July 30 and August 6 in the US.
