After that pivotal episode 6 of HBO Max/DC’s Peacemaker which bridged the series to the next Superman movie, Man of Tomorrow, we caught up with James Gunn on the future of vigilante Christopher Smith.
Essentially, in the short term, there’s not a season 3 of Peacemaker.
“You’re gonna find out more in episode 8 because it’s not necessarily that,” responded Gunn to our query about another season of Peacemaker.
“Some of these characters will continue, but also, it’s not exactly Peacemaker 3. I’m not ruling it out. You’ll see (episode) 8 and maybe you’ll find out a little bit more.”
For quite some time, Gunn was planning a Peacemaker spinoff based on Viola Davis’ Suicide Squad boss Amanda Waller. Development on that series has been a slow-go.
Also since John Cena’s Chris Smith killed his doppelganger in the other-verse, which we just learned is an Aryan utopia, could it be that his father Auggie (Robert Patrick) is actually alive? That it was an Auggie clone who Chris killed at the end of season one? And that the real Auggie has been living in the other-verse?
Gunn gave us a flat out “No” to all three questions.
The series creator and director tells us “Whatever Auggie is in this other world, he’s kinder to his children, that is true. We’ll find out more about Auggie next episode,” in which he exclaims has “a terrific performance by Robert Patrick.”
By the way that Rick Flag Sr. gets Lex Luther to a better jail scene was always part of Gunn’s plan for Peacemaker season 2, even “before the Nazi world was.”
“When I pitched to DCU what the basic stories were throughout the TV shows and movies, this was a part of that,” says the Superman filmmaker about that specific scene.
Gunn says that when it came to Superman crossover characters in Peacemaker season 2, he shot those actors over a couple of Saturdays during the feature production. The scene with the new Justice League members from season 2, episode one was shot on one Saturday, while on a second Saturday he filmed Frank Grillo and Nicholas Hoult’s prison scene, in addition to another Superman characters crossover we’ll see in episode 8.
We also asked Gunn for an update on The Authority movie. At the DC press conference back in February, he mentioned that the antiheroes IP was the hardest one to crack given how other DC projects, including Superman, stepped on Authority‘s toes.
“(It’s) the one that got messed with through all of the other things that were happening. The script had a harder time coming along,” Gunn told the room at the time.
Gunn tells Deadline, that The Authority is not kaput. “There’s someone who is a really good creator who talked to me the other day,” he said.
So, that means series, right? “Who knows,” answered Gunn, “I’m probably not going to do certain movies with characters who (audiences) don’t know; it’s harder to get people in the theater for that kind of thing.”
The Authority was created after StormWatch, a planetary defense force against aliens, was destroyed. The former member of that group, Jenny Sparks, created the Authority with her StormWatch Black teammates Swift and Jack Hawksmoor. The team includes The Engineer (Angela Spica), Jeroen Thornedike (the new Doctor), Apollo and Midnighter. They’re known as a group of antiheroes who take matters into their own hands, despite what the world’s governments advise.
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