{"id":503731,"date":"2026-06-17T04:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T04:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/503731\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T04:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T04:43:13","slug":"part-of-james-gunns-first-dc-movie-has-just-been-removed-from-canon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/503731\/","title":{"rendered":"Part of James Gunn\u2019s first DC movie has just been removed from canon"},"content":{"rendered":"

There have been a lot of questions about what\u2019s canon and what isn’t in James Gunn\u2019s DC Universe<\/a>, and that\u2019s understandable. For example, some DCEU characters like John Cena\u2019s Peacemaker and Viola Davis\u2019s Amanda Waller have carried over into the new universe’s lore, while heroes like Superman have been recast. If you\u2019re a longtime comic fan, this type of thing should be familiar to you, as no reboot is without its hiccups.<\/p>\n

James Gunn has said that<\/a> his 2021 DCEU era film The Suicide Squad<\/a> is still canon to his DC Universe – and, indeed, what happened in that movie was referenced in the second season of Peacemaker, which is definitely part of the DCU canon. However, his brother Sean has pointed out a small wrinkle in that plan during an appearance at Spacecon 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sean Gunn, who debuted as Maxwell Lord in the new DC Universe in 2025’s Superman and reprised the role in Peacemaker season 2, made a cameo as Calendar Man in The Suicide Squad. According to the actor, though, we should ignore that scene the next time we rewatch the movie. \u201cCalendar Man is not grandfathered into the DCU,\u201d Gunn told the audience. \u201cHe is not canon in the new DCU.\u201d<\/p>\n

For those who don’t remember seeing Calendar Man in the movie, he briefly appears in the scene introducing Polka-Dot Man as an another inmate of Belle Reve; the same scene ends with the introduction of Weasel, also played (via motion capture) by Sean Gunn.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was cool,\u201d Gunn said. \u201cCalendar Man was just a cameo, but it was also part of that old universe. My guess is that if Calendar Man were to pop up again in the new DCU, that he would be recast. But I don\u2019t know.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Calendar Man is just one of no less than four DC characters Sean\u00a0Gunn has played – three of whom\u00a0are part of the new DCU. In addition to Maxwell Lord, Gunn\u00a0also voices both Weasel and G.I. Robot in the animated Creature Commandos<\/a> series. Of course, those two are non-human characters who don\u2019t look like Maxwell Lord, so they don\u2019t create the same problem Calendar Man does.<\/p>\n

Of course, this means the role of Calendar Man is currently up for grabs should he ever return to the screen. Let the fancasting begin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There have been a lot of questions about what\u2019s canon and what isn’t in James Gunn\u2019s DC Universe,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7328,4204,93,61,60,4208,270,185666,215404,36027],"class_list":["post-503731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-film-tv","tag-dc-studios","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-james-gunn","tag-movies","tag-sean-gunn","tag-spacecon-2025","tag-the-suicide-squad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}