Jai Courtney Reveals He Recently Chatted With James Gunn About Captain Boomerang's Potential Return

Jai Courtney Reveals He Recently Chatted With James Gunn About Captain Boomerang's Potential Return

There are already several DCEU holdovers making the jump to the DCU. Could Jai Courtney's Captain Boomerang eventually join that club?

By MarkJulian - May 18, 2025 09:05 AM EST
Filed Under: The Suicide Squad
Source: Variety

For many comic book fans, Jai Courtney's Boomerang was the best part of 2016's Suicide Squad. Unfortunately, the character met his demise in the opening batlle of 2021's The Suicide Squad.

However, recent footage from Peacemaker season 2 and Superman have revealed that the DCU seems keen on exploring the concept of pocket dimensions.

In fact, at the end of the Peacemaker season 2 trailer, John Cena's Christopher Smith meets his other-dimensional doppelganger.

What DCEU characters will make it to the DCU?

So could something similar be in store for Jai Courtney's Boomerang in the near future?

While out promoting his new horror survival film Dangerous Animals at Cannes, Courtney revealed that he's recently had a conversation with James Gunn about returning as the boomerang-wielding member of Flash's Rogues.

Retelling a conversation with Gunn, Courtney stated, "I was like, ‘Come on, man. Boomerang is cool,’” Courtney told Variety about when he pleaded his case for Boomerang to return.

 “And James is like, ‘You know these rules don’t really apply. Just because he dies here doesn’t mean it’s gone forever, right?’ And I was like, ‘Hell yeah.’ So I have hope. Somewhere in the back of my mind, there’s a prayer that we’ll see more of Boomerang one day."

Where does Courtney's Boomerang rank on the list of DCEU characters that you'd like to see crossover into the DCU?

DCEU characters already confirmed to have survived the switch in studio leadership include Amanda Waller (Viola Davis), Peacemaker (John Cena), Emilia Harcourt (Jennifer Holland), John Economos (Steve Agee), Weasel (Sean Gunn), and Blue Beetle (Xolo Maridueña).

At NYCC 2024 last year, Gunn provided his most recent explanation of how DCEU canon connects to the DCU.

However, Gunn seems to still be figuring out the particulars of this idea, as some of his other social media responses have contradicted previous statements.

While these are fun concepts to think about, the most important task at the moment for Gunn and the DC Studios is to make sure that Superman is a success and that the DCU gets off on the right foot.

Stay tuned to CBM for future updates as we look forward to seeing how the concept of pocket dimensions plays out and see what similarities and differences the DCU's take on multiple realities shares with what Kevin Feige and co. are currently cooking up with Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars. 

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AnEye
AnEye - 5/18/2025, 9:13 AM
So…Crisis on Infinite Earths?
SpiderParker
SpiderParker - 5/18/2025, 9:54 AM
@AnEye - More like INJUSTICE. Lois dies and no one is left to keep Superman from going berserk. Until DCU steps in with the help of Batfleck. Wishful thinking. Would redeem DCEU though.
AnEye
AnEye - 5/18/2025, 1:32 PM
@SpiderParker - Nah that would suck. Injustice over-stayed its welcome and effectively changed Superman for a decade.
RolandD
RolandD - 5/18/2025, 7:30 PM
@AnEye - Evil Superman is a completely overused trope. I hope we never see that the DCU.
AnEye
AnEye - 5/18/2025, 9:24 PM
@RolandD - Agreed!
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 5/18/2025, 9:14 AM
He was wasted in that film, wouldn't mind him back, just hope it doesn't mean we end up with Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn again.
TheNightmareVirus
TheNightmareVirus - 5/18/2025, 9:39 AM
@HashTagSwagg - Yeah, I don't mind seeing Jai return, as he was perfect as Digger Harkness, but I really wouldn't want to see Robbie play Harley Quinn again. I'm firmly in the camp who thinks she was just fine as the character. She tried her best, but she just didn't capture that zaniness to the character and her heroic turn was forced too quick (granted the DCEU had to try and make a profit somehow, sadly Birds of Prey was awful, like what the [frick] was Ewan McGregor doing as Black Mask?)
SpiderParker
SpiderParker - 5/18/2025, 10:02 AM
@HashTagSwagg - I know Samara Weaving is obvious look alike of Margot Robbie but when I watched Ready or Not and The Babysitter, felt like she could do Harley Quinn well. Plus we got doppelganger Superman as well so fits if they go Injustice route.
Toecutter
Toecutter - 5/18/2025, 11:14 AM
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I wouldn't mind Margot returning, but Samara would be a great choice to replace her if she doesn't.
Repian
Repian - 5/18/2025, 9:37 AM
Maybe Superman's Ultraman is from another dimension. It would be a surprise if Ultraman's origin dates back to the new season of Peacemaker.
POWERDUDE
POWERDUDE - 5/18/2025, 10:00 AM
Hang on…. so Jai [frick]ing Courtney can return, Jason Momoa & Ezra in PeaceMaker…. yet James Gunn couldn’t even allow one final scene with Henry as Superman, even in the Flash…. ?! This guy is one truly EGOTISTICAL PRICK. I’m telling you, if you don’t even slightly see this as for what it is, then you’re sincerely deluded.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m looking forward to the new Superman movie…. but this guy is one NARCISSISTIC ARSEHOLE.
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JurassicClunge
JurassicClunge - 5/18/2025, 10:31 AM
@POWERDUDE - thank you!


This is literally one of the reasons I can't stand the guy😮‍💨 he literally killed cavill off screen because he always wanted to do his superman! He rejected MOS 2 using the excuse he prefers more obscure characters yet also.said he had this superman story brewing for years. 😮‍💨

If he did a full reboot I wouldn't have complained but he saved the people he liked instead 😮‍💨
Nonameforme
Nonameforme - 5/18/2025, 10:48 AM
There's a really easy way to get him and flagg back.
MisterBones
MisterBones - 5/18/2025, 11:14 AM
Give it up
Toecutter
Toecutter - 5/18/2025, 11:17 AM
It's ironic how everyone disliked Jai before SS, but then he ended up being the only redeeming quality in the movie. Then they just wasted him in TSS.
grif
grif - 5/18/2025, 11:28 AM
been watching spartacus again recently and forgot he was in it. now all of a sudden theres a bunch of news with this guy
ManDeth
ManDeth - 5/18/2025, 11:28 AM
Eventually we will see to versions of the same character meet & screw each other. If that hasn't happened already.
Ryos
Ryos - 5/18/2025, 4:24 PM
@ManDeth - boomer did have a thing for unicorns
ChrisRed
ChrisRed - 5/18/2025, 11:32 AM
Boomerang was my favorite character in SS and him dying in the opening of TSS was the worst thing about the movie imo. He really should have survived together with Harley.
The rest of the movie was great though.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 5/18/2025, 1:23 PM
I would be down to see him as Boomerang again…

He ended up being one of the few good things about the original Suicide Squad imo so to see him die early on in TSS was unfortunate thus I hope he comes back in this new-ish universe.

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DannyBrandy20
DannyBrandy20 - 5/18/2025, 1:31 PM
He's one of worst Flash villains. A guy with boomerangs vs a guy that can run faster than the speed of light lmao. Another one is Captain Cold.

Turtle, Gorilla Grodd and Reverse Flash are the ones who can beat Flash in a fight

1stDalek
1stDalek - 5/18/2025, 1:52 PM
@DannyBrandy20 - That's why the Rogues work as a team! Captain Cold, Captain Boomerang, Trickster, Mirror Master, Golden Glider, Heat Wave, Weather Wizard, Pied Piper, and Doctor Alchemy, alone most of them don't stand a chance against a Flash or 2 or 3, but together they can play the numbers game and use synergies to get the upper hand. While sufficiently powered up versions of Weather Wizard and Mirror Master can go at it alone.

Bold to include Grodd in your list when he also has nothing to stand up to Flash's top speed. Turtle and Reverse Flash/Zoom counter him by reducing speed around them and Reverse Flash/Prof Zoom matches the speed, everyone else is trivialized by Flash's top speed. Thankfully Flash never enters a fight at top speed, he starts "slow" and scales up as needed, unless fighting one of the Reverse Flash's.
1stDalek
1stDalek - 5/18/2025, 1:32 PM
I adore Captain Boomerang & Jay did really good in the role, but I feel like Flash should get a clean start with a new cast from top to bottom. That includes recasting Boomer along with Iris & Barry... and no more dead parents, please!
Just jump straight to Flash Barry with Kid Flash Wally running around together beating the Rogues, with an actual supporting cast and not just tiny bit parts for them.
Ryos
Ryos - 5/18/2025, 4:22 PM
Truly my favorite character from both squads
RolandD
RolandD - 5/18/2025, 7:33 PM
Captain Boomerang is a villain of the Flash so we have to see them face off. Barry Allen has a rogue gallery that’s almost on par with the Batman’s and I would love to see them with a well done version of the Flash.
BlackStar25
BlackStar25 - 5/18/2025, 10:40 PM
Crazy Gunn killed this dude....considering he was a pretty good highlight in Suicide Squad
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 5/19/2025, 1:23 AM
I think he is an underrated actor but the way both David Ayer AND Gunn wasted no time in killing his character in BOTH SS films was like they didn't believe in the material Captain Boomerang could bring to the table in any of those movies. It is flaggerbasting that it happened. His version is basically a blank space, twice.

And like another user said above, if he gets to return then yeah, it's another example of Gunn's bias of playing favourites of who gets to return from the old adminstration while he still threw Cavill under the buss.

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