Make Your Peace With Peacemaker…Or Else! New Trailer
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 seen some of them before…Jennifer Holland and Steve Agee are reprising their roles of ARGUS agents Emilia Harcourt and John Economos respectively. Freddie Stroma plays Vigilante, Chukwudi Iwuji plays Amanda Waller’s assistant Clemson Mum, and Danielle Brooks is ARGUS recruit Leota Adebayo. John Cena, as you can see, is back as Peacemaker himself.
The first episode(s) of Peacemaker will premiere January 13, 2022 on HBO Max.