If you’ve seen James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad, then you already met Peacemaker…an arrogant, egotistical man who believes in “peace at any cost, no matter how many men, women and children I have to kill to get it.” And if you had to pick one character from that movie to get a spinoff TV series, you might not necessarily pick what turned out to be the bad guy of the bad guys…buy Gunn himself is behind the upcoming Peacemaker series and he may know something we don’t.
Like when this takes place. It still hasn’t been defined whether HBO Max’s Peacemaker is a prequel or a sequel. A sequel would make a bit more sense as Peacemaker’s reformation arc after what he did in The Suicide Squad; otherwise it doesn’t matter if he develops a conscience, he’s going to inevitably do what he does in the movie. The trailer released today, as part of the DC FanDome event, does not answer this question specifically.
Peacemaker will have a whole new team to work with in the series, though we’ve...
