PEACEMAKER: HBO Max Boss Reveals When THE SUICIDE SQUAD Spinoff Premieres On The Streaming Service

PEACEMAKER: HBO Max Boss Reveals When THE SUICIDE SQUAD Spinoff Premieres On The Streaming Service

The Suicide Squad director James Gunn is currently shooting Peacemaker in Vancouver, Canada, and we now know when the spinoff series starring John Cena (Bumblebee) will arrive on HBO Max. Check it out...

By JoshWilding - Feb 11, 2021 06:02 AM EST
Filed Under: The Suicide Squad
Source: The Hollywood Reporter

The Suicide Squad arrives in theaters, and on HBO Max, this August. When writer and director James Gunn had some spare time during lockdown, he decided to pen a spinoff revolving around John Cena's Peacemakerand the streaming service agreed to make it! Cameras are currently rolling in Vancouver, Canada, and we finally know when we'll be able to watch it!

Talking to The Hollywood Reporter, HBO boss Casey Bloys confirmed that Peacemaker will kick off 2022.

"I just started to get involved with the DC content in August," he told the trade. "Peacemaker is one of the first shows I greenlit and one of the first shows coming out, in January 2022."

That's quite a bombshell to randomly drop in an interview, but good news for us as we finally have an ETA. Gunn has yet to comment on these plans, but the filmmaker is busy actually shooting the thing! 

While details about Peacemaker are being kept under wraps, the series will explore the origins of the character that Cena will play in the upcoming film; a man who believes in peace at any cost - no matter how many people he has to kill to get it. HBO Max has given a straight-to-series order of eight episodes for the first season of the show. John Cena will reprise his role from The Suicide Squad, while Gunn will write all eight episodes of Peacemaker and direct multiple episodes, including the first.

We'll hopefully have more to share with you on this one soon!

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Kman
Kman - 2/11/2021, 6:02 AM
I’m psyched for The Suicide Squad... it feels good to be able to say that again.
soberchimera
soberchimera - 2/11/2021, 8:18 AM
@Kman - It's a great concept when properly executed.
tmp3
tmp3 - 2/11/2021, 6:12 AM
In the same interview he says they want to go for “quality over quantity” when it comes to their DC HBO Max shows which is funny considering the track record for the creative team they got for Green Lantern and the now HBO Max exclusive Titans lol
Dredd97
Dredd97 - 2/11/2021, 6:21 AM
@tmp3 - I'm still holding out hope they get a whole new crew for Green Lantern
tmp3
tmp3 - 2/11/2021, 6:37 AM
@Dredd97 - The thing that disappoints me most is that those leaked casting grids mention how Simon Baz will explore post-9/11 sentiments towards Muslims in America, which feels like it could make for some incredible, volatile story-telling but with this creative team I feel like they'll just fumble it.
Dredd97
Dredd97 - 2/11/2021, 7:42 AM
@tmp3 - absolutely they will. With a concept that sensitive, I don't trust them to pull it off
oldnoname
oldnoname - 2/11/2021, 10:48 AM
@tmp3 - It's Guggenheim right? Yeah that's not gonna go well.
tmp3
tmp3 - 2/11/2021, 10:55 AM
@oldnoname - Guggenheim and the writer of Dark Shadows and Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter...
oldnoname
oldnoname - 2/11/2021, 10:57 AM
@tmp3 - Lol RIP to the show being quality.
ThePott
ThePott - 2/11/2021, 6:21 AM
In and out before Josh writes a second article about how he says there's no update on another season of Watchmen.
tmp3
tmp3 - 2/11/2021, 6:39 AM
@ThePott - It's good that they're not milking it, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't want another season with that creative team. Probably my favorite CB adaptation ever
ThePott
ThePott - 2/11/2021, 6:58 AM
@tmp3 - Same boat, loved the first season and if they had the same creatives back I'd like it but I'm also okay with them leaving it alone. Felt like a pretty succinct story they told that didn't need a continuation necessarily.

Could see them returning to it down the line at some point though.
HubbleFunk
HubbleFunk - 2/11/2021, 6:26 AM
Suicide Squad and The Batman are the DC films I'm excited about.
The sooner and faster we can move away from Snyders vision the better.
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 2/11/2021, 8:42 AM
Good for Cena. Came a long way since Trainwreck.
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