Cover the kiddies bleepin' ears;Peacemakeris stepping out of the Stone Ages, and he is getting a double-helping crash course in all things concerning contemporary culture, from the preferred nomenclature of body parts, negging, and more! Watch the cringe-inducing introduction of the ways of the world to our superhero in the new red band trailer for the James Gunn-helmedPeacemaker, starringJohn Cena.
From the other trailers, the audience can deduce that our main (cave)man Peacemaker has somehow managed to skip the last couple of decades and its progresses when it concerns social interactions with his fellow man, and especially, his fellow women. What can we expect from the new series? “Well, through the story, you learn wherePeacemakercame from,” James Gunn toldVarietythis summer. “There’s a moment in [The Suicide Squad] where Bloodsport talks about his father and what his father was like, and you cut to a shot of Peacemaker, and Peacemaker nods. That’s the seed of the entirePeacemakerseries. So we get to see Peacemaker with his father, who’s played by Robert Patrick, where he came from, what he’s done, what that means to him, and where he’s going after all of this. Because he’s not an evil person, he’s just a bad guy. He seems sort of irredeemable in the film. But I think that there’s more to him. We didn’t get a chance to know him [inThe Suicide Squad] in the way we get to know some of the other characters. And so that’s what the whole show is about. I needed eight episodes to do it, at least.”
The HBO Max series explores the origins of Peacemaker and his subsequent missions, with John Cena joined by the likes of Steve Agee as John Economos, the warden of the Belle Reve Penitentiary and an aide to Amanda Waller; Danielle Brooks as Leota Adebayo, who has been described by James Gunn as a co-lead of the series with a different political view from Peacemaker’s, Robert Patrick as Auggie Smith, Peacemaker’s father; Jennifer Holland as Emilia Harcourt, a NSA agent who is an aide to Amanda Waller, Freddie Stroma as Adrian Chase AKA Vigilante, a district attorney and crimefighter who can quickly heal from injuries,Nhut Le as Judomasterand Chukwudi Iwuji as Clemson Murn, a mercenary who in the past has worked for Amanda Waller. Gunn has also promised we’ll have some Task Force X cameos to look forward to!
If you haven’t had a chance to catch the trailer for the new HBO Max series released last month, it is definitely worth the watch. Characters like Peacemaker aren’t born bad; they need plenty of help along the way to become theinsecure, over-compensatingand damaged humans which are usually part of the package when we’re talking remorseless mercenaries. While Peacemaker is a hired assassin, it’s all in the effort to save the good guys. He only asks that you, “Give peace a f-cking chance.”
