James Gunn on How Peacemaker's Perception of Superman Has Changed | SDCC 2025

Warning! Minor Spoilers for Superman follow.

James Gunn and the formed of Peacemaker stopped by IGN’s workplace astatine San Diego Comic-Con today, wherever Gunn revealed immoderate caller info astir what to expect successful Season 2 of the bid and wherever Christopher Smith/Peacemaker is successful his life... including however helium feels astir Superman pursuing the events of the movie.

John Cena makes a little cameo arsenic Peacemaker successful Gunn’s precocious released Superman, wherever he’s seen connected a speech show, giving a litany of reasons he’s ne'er trusted Superman. So did the extremity of that movie alteration his cognition of the Man of Steel? Said Gunn: “I deliberation that Pacemaker astir apt admires Superman a small spot much than helium did.” But Gunn notes determination is simply a spot of a murky country there, due to the fact that arsenic we spot successful Peacemaker Season 2 trailer, Chris is trying to articulation the Justice Gang successful Season 2.

As Gunn enactment it, “We spot him successful the movie and he's talking crap astir Superman and I deliberation helium astir apt admires him a small spot much than helium did beforehand [now], but besides helium truly wants to get successful with the Justice Gang. So he's not going to accidental immoderate much mean things astir Superman knowing they're his pals.” As for his erstwhile statements astir Superman, if they were brought up, Gunn said Peacemaker would “walk it back. He's got nary backbone with worldly similar that.”

Regarding his wide attack to Season 2, Gunn explained, “I deliberation the taxable of Peacemaker Season 2, if anything, is astir redemption. This is simply a quality who knows helium did incorrect successful the past. He has changed dramatically from Season 1. The 1 happening I didn't privation to bash is person Peacemaker enactment precisely similar helium did astatine the opening of Season 1. We saw melodramatic things hap to him successful the mode he's connected with different radical successful Season 1, and helium has changed due to the fact that of that. His relationship with Leota Adebayo has changed him completely. And present this is simply a caller Peacemaker who is struggling to effort to beryllium the champion idiosyncratic helium tin be. Often failing, but truly trying his champion to bash that, and past each of a abrupt his past won't fto him go, whether it's his narration with his father, who's present gone, oregon his narration with Rick Flag Jr's dada [played by Frank Grillo]. So it's truly astir that conflict astir looking for redemption and besides looking for love.”

On that past point, Gunn elaborated, “There is simply a emotion communicative successful this. The archetypal play was astir the narration betwixt Leota Adebayo and Peacemaker. This successful a batch of ways is astir Peacemaker and Harcourt and their relationship.”

Among the additions to Season 2 is Sol Rodríguez arsenic Sasha Bordeaux, a quality chiefly associated with Batman successful the comics. Rodríguez said she felt “Sasha's essence is inactive determination from the comics, but she's bringing caller vibes,” and that erstwhile it comes to the DCU's eventual mentation of Batman, “She has thing to bash with that.” Though who’s to accidental if Gunn was joking oregon not erstwhile helium replied, “Yet!” to that connection astir Sasha and Batman having nary connection.

When Rodríguez added she precise overmuch didn’t cognize who volition yet beryllium playing the DCU’s mentation of Batman, Gunn past added, regarding each of the instrumentality speculation, “I don’t cognize who’s playing Batman!”