![]() James Gunn teases Gorilla Grodd and addresses query on Detective Chimp’s debut He further added another tweet to the thread featuring the aforementioned gorilla characters. So DCU fans have lately had a lot of queries as well as council for the 10-year-plan, like encouraging the Peacemaker helmer to include more than one gorilla.įortunately, it looks like James Gunn has no plans of limiting his imagination and that means he “will abide by no gorilla limits” tweeted the DC Studios co-chairman and CEO. Gunn is months away from unveiling his roadmap for the DC Comics’ based adaptations, set to be explored across mixed media platforms. Make way for Monsieur Mallah, Ultra-Humanite, Congo Bill and other gorilla-based characters from the DC Universe. The director assured that the upcoming DC Bible won’t have “gorilla limits” unlike DC Comics which had a rule on over-utilizing Apes as a selling tactic since readers were delightfully entertained by the inclusion of the said characters. The character didn’t appear in the recent Watchmen TV series, but there you go, now you can wow your friends at cocktail parties, if those are ever a thing that can happen again.From Gorilla Grodd to Detective chimp, DC Studios boss James Gunn is keen on exploring DC Universe’s obscure characters, which seems to include some of the fans’ favorite enhanced apes and chimpanzees from the source material. Since DC wanted to save those characters for fates other than being giant alien squid-ed to death (uh…spoilers), they told him no, and instead he created his own thinly veiled fan fiction versions of the Charlton heroes. ![]() It’s a particular bummer to me, given Peacemaker’s ties to the Blue Beetle franchise, since my heart has still not given up on the Jaime Reyes show that was teased way the hell back in 2010.įinally, a fun fact: this isn’t the only current TV show with a tie to the Peacemaker, believe it or not! When Alan Moore originally pitched Watchmen to DC, he wanted to use the characters DC had just acquired from Charlton. Again, I’m cautiously optimistic about the show, but especially with the recent cancellation of Supergirl, the state of diversity in DCTV remains…not great. It’s also worth noting that this is yet another superhero show about a white man, with another white man at the helm. So this could go either way.Ĭena as Peacemaker, from DC’s FanDome event. I mean, Baby Groot was cute and all, but I don’t exactly trust James Gunn to handle our multiple ongoing apocalypses with the sensitivity they deserve. We don’t know much about either The Suicide Squad or Peacemaker yet, but Cena has described the character as “a douchey Captain America,” and Gunn, who will write all eight episodes of the first season and direct several, described the show as “an opportunity to delve into current world issues through the lens of this superhero/supervillain/and world’s biggest douchebag.” Given how extremely dire current world issues are, that statement does give me pause. ![]() Add in the bombastic charisma of John Cena, and this actually sounds…potentially hilarious? After all, Task Force X is traditionally made up of goofy villains and Z-list heroes, and we know from the Guardians of the Galaxy movies that Gunn excels at skewering obscure superheroes with affectionate mockery. So basically, he’s a Z-lister with a goofy nonsensical tagline and an absolutely hilarious original costume, which makes him perfect for The Suicide Squad. Don’t worry, friends-I’m here for you.ĭC’s Peacemaker series tried to be a bit edgier than Charlton’s. You may, like 99.9999% of the world, be wondering who the heck Peacemaker is. This was pretty surprising news, in part since his debut as the character in the James Gunn–directed The Suicide Squad won’t be until August 2021 (if COVID doesn’t shuffle release dates further), and in part because…the Peacemaker? Really? I know we live in a world where Commander Steel and Gorilla Grodd appear regularly on television now, but… really? Recently, The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that John Cena will be getting his own HBO Max show as the Peacemaker. Follow her on Twitter at All posts by Jessica Plummer She loves running, knitting, and thinking about superheroes, and knows an unnecessary amount of things about Donald Duck. Her day job is in books, her side hustle is in books, and she writes books on the side (including a short story in Sword Stone Table from Vintage). Jessica Plummer has lived her whole life in New York City, but she prefers to think of it as Metropolis.
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