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The second season of Peacemaker is currently filming, and James Gunn is now starting to slowly pull back the curtain on what to expect from the Max series. back. In the first real casting news, it was revealed that Frank Grillo will appear as Rick Flag, Sr.
Grillo had already been cast to play the elder Flag for the next Creature Commandos animated television show that has not yet aired. On Instagram, Gunn noted that Rick Sr. will return throughout the season and that he has “unfinished business” with the titular antihero in John Cena. Peacemaker killed Rick Jr. (played by Joel Kinnaman) in 2021 The suicide squad, remember, something he admitted to feeling guilty about in the previous season. Given that Grillo has played some pretty violent badasses in franchises like The Purge, Skyline, and the MCU films, it probably won't just be a simple one-on-one conversation and apology.
Back when he and Peter Safran were first brought in to lead the new DC films, Gunn revealed his plans to have the actors reprise their roles across multiple mediums: if someone plays a character in a live-action film, it will be the same person in animation, video games, you get the idea. We've seen this before with Cena playing Peacemaker again in Mortal Kombat 1, but Creature Commandos—also written by Gunn, and whose cast includes Alan Tudyk, Maria Balakova and David Harbor…this will really be the first test of that. Creatures should also be the starting point for the first phase of this new DC Universe, which intensifies the conversation (and pressure) around Peacemaker second year exit
Neither that nor Creature Commandos have a release date locked at the time of writing. But it will be interesting to see how the two series play out and how we move from one Rick Flag Sr. to the other.
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