{"id":99192,"date":"2025-08-21T11:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T11:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/99192\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T11:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T11:20:09","slug":"james-gunn-early-outline-had-white-supremacist-superheroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/99192\/","title":{"rendered":"James Gunn Early Outline Had White Supremacist Superheroes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFor those who really do wanna wanna a taste of Peacemaker<\/a> season 2, the wait is over as the show goes on tomorrow on HBO Max.<\/p>\n

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\n\tSeason 2 deals with the events following the death of Christopher Smith\u2019s (John Cena) white supremacist father, Auggie Smith played by Robert Patrick. But there\u2019s way more. Smith aka Peacemaker finds another dimensional portal and begins to indulge in a life that\u2019s so much sweeter than his real life, particularly with g.f. Harcourt (Jennifer Holland).<\/p>\n

\n\tGunn, on today\u2019s Crew Call<\/a>, tells us while it was his original intention to write season 2 of Peacemaker before Superman, that whole plan changed once he took the reigns at Warner Bros DC Studios. The whole blueprint for the multi-dimensional universe in Superman wound up playing a big role in Smith\u2019s future storyline which Gunn wrote post his Man of Steel. <\/p>\n

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\n\tBut there was an initial draft that Gunn scrapped. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe first time I wrote a rough outline of season 2, it had to do with other white supremacist superheroes who were after Peacemaker for killing his father because he was their comrade,\u201d says Gunn, \u201cFor me, it played a little bit too much like season one and I wanted to turn the story on its heels.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI wanted Peacemaker to be this character who had to really deal with the ramifications of his actions in season one, and deal with his emotional reality of the demons that he discovered in season one and how does he face that. That seemed to work much better for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOne of the inspirations for Gunn was the Philip Roth novel The Counterlife. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPeacemaker sees this reality that\u2019s like his, but better in seemingly every way, so how does he deal with that from an emotional standpoint and face the ghosts from his past that he loved and killed? It seemed potent especially when mixed with the love story. <\/p>\n

\n\tGunn talks to us about his relief in Superman being a success (the movie is closing in on $600M worldwide gross) and blasting off his DC Studios phase one. He is joined on Deadline\u2019s Crew Call by his Peacemaker DP Sam McCurdy (who won an Emmy for Cinematography One-Hour Series last year for Sh\u014dgun) and the two chat about season 2\u2019s visual aesthetic. <\/p>\n

\n\tGunn is busy writing his follow-up to Superman, the treatment of which is complete. As he\u2019s mentioned previously, it\u2019s not a direct sequel to Superman but involves the characters we met in this summer\u2019s film with Kal-El figuring prominently. <\/p>\n

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