The ‘Peacemaker’ Finale Gave Us Our Best Look Yet at the Future of James Gunn’s DC Universe

I started with Commando Creatures And it became deeper with SupermanBut it was the end Peacemaker As James Gunn has already begun to pull back the curtain on his plans for the DC Universe. From the beginning of this journey, Gunn made it clear that he had a plan for a big, overarching story in the DC Universe. You don’t have to watch every piece of content to understand it, but it will hook you.

And while there was excitement before, there’s an end Peacemaker Season 2 is the first and best time we have an idea of ​​where all of this is headed.

So in the end Peacemaker In Season 2, the Peacemaker himself (John Cena) was relegated to Redemption, a dimension in which the government began placing superhumans it didn’t want to deal with. Speaking with Rolling Stone, Gunn stressed that the idea of ​​redemption is at the root of not only Future Peacemaker, but the DC Universe in general.

“People should expect it the way the Army and Rick expect it [Flag] “Everyone is working together and they’ve created an illegal imprisonment of metahumans in another dimension, which is going to be part of the DCU stories going forward. And it’s not just a third phase, ‘Oh, this is Arkham’ — it’s part of the stories,” Gunn said. Clearly, there is an escalating war going on between the government and humans. This is part of it.”

This “escalating war” will also be part of the next two big pieces of the puzzle: Lanterns On HBO Max and Supergirlin theaters in June 2026. “Both things have been in the works,” Gunn said. “We knew that both stories were part of what we originally brought together, so they’re part of the overall fabric, but they’re also their own thing. Supergirl Especially since it’s a space adventure. It’s like Guardians [of the Galaxy]. Lanterns It’s its own thing. There’s kind of a longer, broader world that we’re building with all these different pieces, and they come together and intersect sometimes in a story way and sometimes in a “here’s another piece of the world” way.

Of course, you start to see that when you remember that Peacemaker saw Rick Flag Sr. and Lex Luthor, the star of the next movie Superman film, Man of tomorrowin cooperation during this time. But, as Gunn said, the big threat of the 2027 movie will be something entirely new.

“There’s one big story,” Gunn said in a separate interview, according to Screen Summary. “On the one hand, it’ll be fine to watch on its own, but there’s still a bigger story being told that involves, say, redemption. And that story involves Rick Flag, and it involves Lex and Superman, so I’ll be directing those movies.”

“I don’t expect people to come in Man of tomorrow “And you know what salvation is,” Gunn added. “We’ll say that in the movie. You’ll find out anything you need to know about him, like… [as] The metahuman disappears through this film.

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