New Peacemaker Season 2 Trailer Shows John Cena Playing Chris From Season 1 and His Variant From an Alternate Dimension | SDCC 2025

Coming successful blistery from San Diego Comic-Con 2025 is simply a caller trailer for Peacemaker Season 2, which yet reveals however John Cena’s Chris Smith jumps from his DCEU magnitude to an alternate DCU dimension.

DCU steward James Gunn is bringing astir of Peacemaker Season 1, which was a portion of the DCEU, into the DCU canon with Season 2, which takes spot 1 period aft the events of Superman.

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Peacemaker discovers a caller beingness via a Quantum Unfolding Chamber (QUC), with Frank Grillo’s Rick Flag Sr. retired for revenge for the decease of his son. We spot Peacemaker spell done to the different side, which helium instantly finds much appealing (the writer is ever greener etc.). However, arsenic teased successful the video, Peacemaker ends up gathering alternate magnitude Peacemaker and of people the 2 extremity up successful a fight.

However, determination are 100 alternate dimensions of the DCU, and we spot 1 of those successful the trailer with a war-torn battlefield packed with what look similar elephantine spider creatures with skulls for heads.

Peacemaker returns for its eight-episode 2nd play connected Thursday, August 21 astatine 9pm ET connected HBO Max. James Gunn wrote each 8 episodes of Peacemaker and directed three, including the archetypal episode, which features Guy Gardner and Hawkgirl from Superman.

During a sheet astatine Comic-Con, Gunn confirmed different characters from Superman (besides Rick Flag Sr., Hawkgirl, Guy Gardner, and Maxwell Lord) volition instrumentality successful Peacemaker Season 2. Michael Rooker (who starred successful Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy films for Marvel), plays a quality named Red St. Wild, who acts arsenic "Eagley's Lex Luthor," according to Gunn.

Here's the authoritative blurb:

In play two, Peacemaker discovers an alternate satellite wherever beingness is everything helium wishes it could be. But this find besides forces him to look his traumatic past and instrumentality the aboriginal into his ain hands.

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