Peacemaker series creator and showrunner James Gunn recently discussed how much of David Ayer‘s 2016 superhero feature Suicide Squad is canon in the DC Universe (DCU). This comes after Peacemaker Season 2, which is part of the DCU, made references to the events from the movie.
James Gunn talks David Ayer’s Suicide Squad’s DCU connection
During James Gunn’s appearance on Phase Hero: A Film & TV Podcast, host Brandon Davis spoke about how surprised he was to discover references to the romantic interest that Joel Kinnaman’s Rick Flag Jr. has for Cara Delevingne’s Dr. June Moone / Enchantress in David Ayer’s Suicide Squad.
In response, the DCU co-head said, “Yeah, I know. And then, sometimes I regret it, because it was like, obviously, our June Moone still has sorceress powers. He’s [Flag Jr.] cheating on her. It’s not the great love story it was presented as in David’s movie. So, it’s like there are some differences there.”
Gunn proceeded to note that the world these characters inhabit has metahumans. He added that Flag Jr. “is this good-looking guy, who’s a soldier, and it seems like he would be attracted to a metahuman girl.”
Davis then stated that he would be a “fraud” to his audience if he didn’t ask this question before enquiring if there were other parts of the 2016 movie that Gunn considered “loosely canon” or “is that sort of the further we go back, the blurrier it gets.”
This prompted Gunn to reveal that he even had a conversation about what is canon in the DCU in 2021’s The Suicide Squad, which he helmed. When Davis asked if that meant David Dastmalchian’s Abner Krill / Polka-Dot Man could still be alive, Gunn clarified that he would not bring back someone he had killed in an earlier movie because “that becomes too confusing.”
However, Gunn did mention that actors such as Nathan Fillion and Michael Rooker have appeared in different roles after their initial characters died in the 2021 movie, potentially hinting that Dastmalchian might join the cast of a future DCU project.
Peacemaker Season 2 streams on HBO Max every Thursday.
Originally reported by Tamal Kundu on SuperHeroHype.
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