RUMOR: PEACEMAKER Season 2 Will Feature A Big Return As [SPOILER] Makes Their DCU Debut

RUMOR: PEACEMAKER Season 2 Will Feature A Big Return As [SPOILER] Makes Their DCU Debut

There's a lot of intrigue surrounding Peacemaker season 2, seeing as it's so closely tied to the DCEU, and a new rumour suggests we can expect a familiar face from that franchise to make their DCU debut...

By JoshWilding - Aug 08, 2025 03:08 PM EST
Filed Under: Peacemaker

Peacemaker season 2 is fast approaching, making it the third DCU project to head our way since Creature Commandos premiered at the end of last year. 

DC Studios co-CEO and filmmaker James Gunn had described the series as a direct follow-up to Superman, and promised fans that it's going to explain what is and isn't canon from the first season of Peacemaker.

He's previously hinted that pretty much everything aside from the Justice League's cameos/references to characters like Aquaman and The Flash played out in the DCU exactly as it did in the DCEU.

Joel Kinnaman reprising his Suicide Squad and The Suicide Squad role as Rick Flag Jr. in Peacemaker season 2 feels like one of the show's worst-kept secrets after some pretty telling hints from the actor. Now, we have apparent confirmation from @MyTimeToShineH.

According to the insider, Kinnaman will return as Rick in a flashback scene (marking his official DCU debut) and as an alternate version that's still alive in the dimension where Christopher Smith discovers that his Multiversal doppelganger is living the life he's always wanted. 

Interestingly, the scooper has also revealed that Peacemaker season 2 sees Gunn make David Ayer's Suicide Squad "somewhat canon" to the DCU, though what exactly that means remains to be seen. 

Whether Gunn is looking to placate the #ReleaseTheAyerCut crowd or has bigger plans for characters from the 2016 movie remains to be seen. Still, we're sure this rumour will only increase excitement for the show's return later this month.

A new TV spot for Peacemaker season 2 is also doing the rounds online. You can watch that in the player below.

Peacemaker follows the explosive escapades of the character John Cena reprises in the aftermath of James Gunn's 2021 film The Suicide Squad—a compellingly vainglorious man who believes in peace at any cost, no matter how many people he has to kill to get it.

The new season follows Christopher 'Chris' Smith, aka Peacemaker, the vigilante superhero, as he struggles to reconcile his past with his newfound sense of purpose while continuing to kick righteous evildoer butt in his misguided quest for peace at any cost. He discovers an alternate world where life is everything he wishes it could be. But this discovery also forces him to face his traumatic past and take the future into his own hands.

This second batch of episodes will star John Cena, Danielle Brooks, Freddie Stroma, Jennifer Holland, Steve Agee, Frank Grillo, Sol Rodríguez, David Denman, Brey Noelle, and Tim Meadows. Joel Kinnaman is also rumoured to appear as Rick Flag Jr. 

James Gunn wrote all eight episodes of Peacemaker and directed three, including the first episode. Gunn, Peter Safran, and Cena serve as executive producers. Greg Mottola, Peter Sollett, and Alethea Jones also direct.

Peacemaker season 2 premieres on HBO on August 21. 

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HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 8/8/2025, 3:09 PM
Cool, now bring back the Boomerrang guy
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 8/8/2025, 3:24 PM
@HashTagSwagg - sounds cool.....now bring back Henry
McMurdo
McMurdo - 8/8/2025, 4:09 PM
@HashTagSwagg - Jai Courtney's greatest role. Although i have yet to see the film where he plays a serial killer boat captain who feeds his victims to sharks
MotherGooseUPus
MotherGooseUPus - 8/8/2025, 4:53 PM
@McMurdo - dangerous animals. i was going to rent that to watch this weekend with the wife. i have very low expectations for it but she likes horror and i like sharks so im in
Oberlin4Prez
Oberlin4Prez - 8/8/2025, 3:10 PM
"Joel Kinnaman reprising his Suicide Squad and The Suicide Squad role as Rick Flag Jr. in Peacemaker season 2 feels like one of the show's worst-kept secrets after some pretty telling hints from the actor."

This is the first I'm hearing about this. Lol. Was this reported previously?
regularmovieguy
regularmovieguy - 8/8/2025, 3:34 PM
@Oberlin4Prez

There was an Instagram post implying Kinnaman was returning for Peacemaker. Never got confirmation but it’s been assumed he would be here.
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 8/8/2025, 4:05 PM
@Oberlin4Prez - I'm with you. That's news to me!
McMurdo
McMurdo - 8/8/2025, 4:10 PM
@Oberlin4Prez - first I had heard too but I support it
JAYMASTA
JAYMASTA - 8/8/2025, 3:12 PM
I’m not sure why Gunn has made this canon stuff so complicated by saying some stuff is canon and other stuff isn’t from the snyderverse/Gunn crossovers. He could easily just explain this all with the Flash movie ending having changed everything or the parallel worlds thing in peacemaker 2. Two perfect opportunities to say this is the new DCU and basically just keep everyone with OCD happy!
McMurdo
McMurdo - 8/8/2025, 4:13 PM
@JAYMASTA - it's only complicated if you lack the slightest bit of comprehension skills. That's not directed at you but he's been crystal clear on Creature Commandos and onward being canon and anything mentioned within regarding past events are also canon. So peacemaker s1 and TSS are mostly canon outside obvious examples such as the JL cameos. It's the same exact thing with the MCU netflix shows.....they were "canon" but also "weren't canon"....


Shit youre right its confusing.
SATW42
SATW42 - 8/8/2025, 3:59 PM
I mean, some of Ayers Suicide squad has to be canon, because it was canon to The Suicide squad, which has been established as canon.

This is a no brainer isn't it?
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 8/8/2025, 4:20 PM
@SATW42 - yes , you are right

Loosely canon until Gunn says otherwise.
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 8/8/2025, 4:11 PM
Let's be honest here:
It was NEVER David Ayer's Suicide Squad.

What we got was WBs' bastardization of David Ayer's SS.
I genuinely really want to see the "Ayer-Cut." If it's what I've heard and read SS was SUPPOSED to be? Then we truly missed out.
You can tell that just by the vastly different tones between the first and second trailers.
ImNotaBot
ImNotaBot - 8/8/2025, 4:23 PM
How people find this complicated? The Suicide Squad is cannon until they mention Superman, Batman and other stuff from the Snyder Verse. Same with Peacemaker season one, it has to be canon until they mention the Snyder Verse.

To be honest, TSS only link to the synder verse is Harley, Flag, Waller and Boomerang. But even those characters are loosely tied to the previous Suicide Squad. They mention Superman, but he can be any Superman from any universe. The most probematic thing linking Gunn DC projects before the DCU is the Justice League showing up at Peacemaker S1, but its a 20sec scene that you can just ignore.

Marvel will probably have the same approach with the MCU after Secret Wars, they will pick and choose whay they want to keep and what they want to throw away and they'll call it soft reboot. If you are finding the DCU complicated, just wait for the MCU reboot. I think both are find and not complicated at all.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 8/8/2025, 4:51 PM
Honestly , I buy this being true…

I liked Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flagg Jr (moreso in TSS then SS where he was bland AF) so good to have him back for this!!.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the flashback is him & his dad to give us more insight into their relationship before his death.
cubichy
cubichy - 8/8/2025, 5:11 PM
I won't watch anything related to the shitshow that is peacemaker, so I guess I will be missing 😕 everything that's after superman and all the cannon stuff. I watched creature commandos and really liked it, totally contrary to the gore, violence ridden and slapstick comedy that is peacemaker. I cannot believe Gunn is investing In a tertiary character that no one knows or cares about and thus putting the new dc at risk like this. It will come back to hunt him...fans only want primary characters, he needs to abandon peacemaked...it's dogshit.
OrgasmicPotatoe
OrgasmicPotatoe - 8/8/2025, 5:21 PM
I don't know how many Silvertide fans might be here, but they've just teased one of their songs will play in the next season.
Forthas
Forthas - 8/8/2025, 5:52 PM
Can't be any worse than the first season!

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