EMPIRE 2022 PREVIEW
PEACEMAKER
JAMES GUNN ON HOW HE’S PUSHING EVERYTHING FURTHER WITH THE SUICIDE SQUAD’S TV SPIN-OFF
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On a mission: John Cena as the eponymous “glorious asshole”.
At what point during The Suicide Squad did you realise you wanted to spend more time with Peacemaker?
I think I made jokes about it while we were shooting. I was a big fan as a child of [1979’s] Reb Brown-starring Captain America TV movie. So I imagined doing a very fucked-up version of that, but with Peacemaker, who murders people. His patriotism is a bit more fanatical. So I was joking around on set, and John [Cena] was able to do so much with the character. We didn’t show his background in the same way we saw Bloodsport’s or Ratcatcher’s or Polka-Dot Man’s. I felt there was a lot more to explore.