Peacemaker (TV series)

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Peacemaker
Peacemaker (TV series) poster.jpg
Genre
  • Action comedy
  • Drama
  • Superhero
Created byJames Gunn
Based onCharacters
from DC
Starring
Music by
  • Clint Mansell
  • Kevin Kiner
Opening theme"Do Ya Wanna Taste It" by Wig Wam
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes3
Production
Executive producers
  • Matt Miller
  • Peter Safran
  • James Gunn
Producers
  • Lars Winther
  • John H. Starke
  • John Rickard
Production locationVancouver, Canada
CinematographyMichael Bonvillain
Editors
  • Fred Raskin
  • Todd Busch
Running time39–46 minutes
Production companies
DistributorWarnerMedia Direct
Release
Original networkHBO Max
Picture formatHDTV 1080p
Audio format5.1 Surround Sound
Original releaseJanuary 13, 2022 (2022-01-13) –
present (present)
Chronology
Preceded byThe Suicide Squad

Peacemaker is an American television series created by James Gunn for the streaming service HBO Max, based on the DC Comics character Peacemaker. It is the first DC Extended Universe (DCEU) television series and a spin-off from the 2021 film The Suicide Squad. Set after the events of the film, the series follows jingoistic killer Christopher Smith / Peacemaker as he joins "Project Butterfly", a black ops squad that targets parasitic butterfly-like creatures. The series is produced by The Safran Company and Troll Court Entertainment in association with Warner Bros. Television, with Gunn serving as showrunner.

John Cena stars as the title character, reprising his role from The Suicide Squad, with Danielle Brooks, Freddie Stroma, Chukwudi Iwuji, Jennifer Holland, Steve Agee, and Robert Patrick also starring. Gunn conceived Peacemaker after noting Cena's strength as a dramatic actor while filming The Suicide Squad, and wrote all eight episodes while completing the film during the COVID-19 pandemic. HBO Max ordered Peacemaker straight-to-series in September 2020, and additional casting took place over the following months. Filming took place in Vancouver, Canada, from January to July 2021, with Gunn directing five episodes.

Peacemaker premiered on HBO Max on January 13, 2022, with its first three episodes. The rest of the series is being released weekly through February 17. The series has received positive reviews.

Premise[]

After recovering from the injuries he suffered during the events of The Suicide Squad (2021), Christopher Smith / Peacemaker is forced to join the mysterious A.R.G.U.S. black ops squad "Project Butterfly",[1] who are on a mission to identify and eliminate parasitic butterfly-like creatures in human form around the United States and the world.[2]

Cast and characters[]

Main[]

  • John Cena as Christopher Smith / Peacemaker:
    A jingoistic killer who believes in achieving peace at any cost. Showrunner James Gunn described Peacemaker as a "piece of shit" and a "superhero/supervillain/[the] world's biggest douchebag".[3][4] Gunn did not want the series to remove Peacemaker's worst qualities, but attempted to explain some of them by exploring Peacemaker's relationship with his father.[4] After Peacemaker killed Rick Flag in The Suicide Squad (2021), Flag's final words—"Peacemaker, what a joke"—have a big impact on him in the series.[5]
  • Danielle Brooks as Leota Adebayo:
    The daughter of A.R.G.U.S. leader Amanda Waller and a member of Project Butterfly.[1][6] Gunn described her as a co-lead with a different political view from Peacemaker's,[7] and said their friendship is the heart of the series because they are the only characters that like each other despite the differences in their personalities and backgrounds.[4] Gunn said both characters are defined by their parents, and he created Adebayo for the series because Waller does not have a daughter in the comic books.[8]
  • Freddie Stroma as Adrian Chase / Vigilante:
    A self-proclaimed crimefighter who looks up to Peacemaker like an older brother.[9][10] Unlike his comic book depiction as a superhero, Peacemaker's Vigilante is a foolish sociopath, willing to kill any lawbreaker regardless of the severity of their crime. Gunn felt this approach was what a real-life vigilante would be like: "a guy who dresses up in a costume, and goes around and kills people he says are doing something wrong ... he's a sociopath, but he's got this sort of sweet aspect to him."[10]
  • Chukwudi Iwuji as Clemson Murn:
    A mercenary and the leader of Project Butterfly who reports directly to Waller.[1][11] Iwuji said the character had a dark past but was working to redeem himself. He developed a backstory for Clemson since he does not exist in the comics, and worked with vocal coach Kohli Calhoun to develop the character's voice.[12]
  • Jennifer Holland as Emilia Harcourt:
    An A.R.G.U.S. agent who is assigned to Project Butterfly by Waller.[13] The series develops a relationship between Harcourt and Peacemaker that Gunn said was not a "love relationship" but also "not not that either", with the television format allowing for a more complicated dynamic to be explored between them than a film would have allowed.[14]
  • Steve Agee as John Economos:
    An A.R.G.U.S. agent who provides tactical support for Project Butterfly.[15] Agee reluctantly dyed his beard when first portraying the character in The Suicide Squad, and was not happy to do so again for Peacemaker. This is acknowledged within the series as a running joke about his dyed beard.[14]
  • Robert Patrick as August "Auggie" Smith / White Dragon:
    Peacemaker's racist father who supplies him with technology to aid his mission.[13][16] Gunn said Auggie was a worse person than Peacemaker and a "lost cause",[4] executive producer Peter Safran described him as "Archie Bunker on steroids",[8] and Cena said he was the only character in the series who does not have a character arc and journey.[5] Gunn noted that portraying a racist character was a delicate subject and something that HBO Max expressed some concern about.[4] The White Dragon is not Peacemaker's father in the comics but it was always Gunn's intention to make that change when he added Peacemaker to The Suicide Squad.[8]

Recurring[]

  • Annie Chang as Sophie Song: An Evergreen police detective who investigates Peacemaker's activities.[11]
  • Lochlyn Munro as Larry Fitzgibbon: Song's police partner.[11]
  • Elizabeth Ludlow as Keeya: Adebayo's wife.[17]
  • Rizwan Manji as Jamil: A janitor who works at the hospital where Peacemaker was admitted.[17]
  • Alison Araya as Amber Calcaterra: An Evergreen citizen and the wife of Evan.[18]
  • Lenny Jacobson as Evan Calcaterra: An Evergreen citizen and the husband of Amber.[18]
  • Nhut Le as Judomaster: A bodyguard who works for Senator Royland Goff.[19]
  • Christopher Heyerdahl as Captain Locke[11]

Guest[]

  • Antonio Cupo as Royland Goff: A United States Senator and Butterfly.[2]

Additionally, Viola Davis reprises her DCEU role as Amanda Waller in an uncredited cameo appearance,[20] and Dee Bradley Baker voices Peacemaker's pet eagle Eagly.[21]

Episodes[]

No.TitleDirected by [22]Written by [3]Original release date [23]
1"A Whole New Whirled"James GunnJames GunnJanuary 13, 2022 (2022-01-13)
Five months after his mission with the Suicide Squad in Corto Maltese,[a] Christopher Smith / Peacemaker has recovered from the injuries he suffered there and is discharged from hospital. Upon returning to his trailer home, Smith is confonted by a group of A.R.G.U.S. agents: Clemson Murn, Emilia Harcourt, John Economos, and newcomer Leota Adebayo. They give him the choice of returning to Belle Reve prison or joining a new mission dubbed "Project Butterfly". Smith visits his father, Auggie, to retrieve his pet eagle Eagly and acquire a new outfit. He then has dinner with the team and Murn gives him a dossier of an assassination target. Smith later attempts to flirt with Harcourt in a bar, but is rejected and instead goes home with a different woman at the bar. Meanwhile, Adebayo privately discusses her role in Project Butterfly with her mother, A.R.G.U.S. leader Amanda Waller. The woman that Smith is with attacks him and reveals that she has superhuman strength. During the following fight, Smith activates a sonic boom weapon in his helmet that destroys the woman.
2"Best Friends, For Never"James GunnJames GunnJanuary 13, 2022 (2022-01-13)
Smith contacts Harcourt and explains his situation as Evergreen's police force comes to investigate the sonic boom. Harcourt and Adebayo come to collect Smith while he retrieves his belongings from the woman's apartment; he also discovers a mysterious device that he takes. Smith briefly takes a couple hostage and is able to escape from their apartment's balcony, getting away with Eagly, Harcourt, and Adebayo. Economos changes Smith's fingerprint's in the police system to point to Auggie, and Adebayo bribes the couple that Smith took hostage into identifying Auggie as the man who took them hostage. The police arrest Auggie, and in prison he is hailed as the "White Dragon" by white inmates. Smith realises that the woman only tried to attack him after she saw the dossier he had on his assassination target. Feeling shunned by the team, Smith returns to his trailer and is greeted by his one-time crimefighting partner Vigilante who attempts to cheer Smith up by inviting him to a target practice. They later learn that the device from the woman's apartment is a miniature spaceship.
3"Better Goff Dead"James GunnJames GunnJanuary 13, 2022 (2022-01-13)
Murn briefs Smith on their first mission: to assassinate United States Senator Royland Goff, who is a suspected "Butterfly", as well as his wife and young children if they are proven to be Butterflies as well. Smith shows hesitance about killing children despite previously saying that he was willing to do so for "peace". Smith and Harcourt stakeout the Goff's house and are soon joined by Vigilante, who secretly followed the team. When the Goff family are seen displaying alien-like behavior, Murn orders Smith to assassinate them all but Smith is unable to do so. Vigilante takes over and successfully kills the wife and children, but Goff's bodyguard Judomaster intervenes and incapacitates Smith and Vigilante before Goff is killed. Inside the house, Goff tortures Vigilante, whose secret identity is revealed to be Adrian Chase, to force Smith to reveal information. They are interrupted by Murn, Harcourt, and Adebayo which gives Smith the opportunity to free himself and kill Goff. Meanwhile, Economos incapacitates Judomaster. A butterfly-like creature emerges from Goff's corpse.
4TBATBAJames GunnJanuary 20, 2022 (2022-01-20)
5TBATBAJames GunnJanuary 27, 2022 (2022-01-27)
6TBAJames GunnJames GunnFebruary 3, 2022 (2022-02-03)
7TBABrad AndersonJames GunnFebruary 10, 2022 (2022-02-10)
8TBAJames GunnJames GunnFebruary 17, 2022 (2022-02-17)

Jody Hill and Rosemary Rodriguez also directed an episode each.[24]

Production[]

Development[]

[Peacemaker is] not an evil person, he's just a bad guy. He seems sort of irredeemable in the film. But I think that there's more to him. We didn't get a chance to know him [in The Suicide Squad] in the way we get to know some of the other characters. And so that's what the whole show is about.

—Creator and showrunner James Gunn on why he wanted to make a spin-off series about Peacemaker[16]

While completing work on The Suicide Squad (2021) in August 2020, during a COVID-19 lockdown, writer and director James Gunn began writing a spin-off television series centered on the origins of Peacemaker, a character portrayed by John Cena in the film.[3][25] Gunn said he did this "mostly for fun",[25] and mentioned the idea to The Suicide Squad producer Peter Safran as something he would like to pursue. When DC Films later asked Safran about developing a spin-off series based on The Suicide Squad he knew that Gunn would say yes to making a Peacemaker series.[4][26] There were initial discussions about what platform the series should be released through, with the pay television channel HBO and the streaming service HBO Max being two options. The series ultimately went to HBO Max, and Gunn felt this was because it was a new streaming service that needed content and was willing to give Gunn the budget he wanted for the series.[4] DC Films president Walter Hamada later explained that the studio was working with the filmmakers of all its upcoming film slate to try create interconnected spin-off television series for HBO Max based on those films.[27]

HBO Max ordered Peacemaker straight-to-series in September 2020, with Gunn writing all eight episodes of the first season and directing five of them. Gunn and Safran were set as executive producers, with Cena as co-executive producer.[3] The series is produced by Gunn's Troll Court Entertainment and The Safran Company in conjunction with Warner Bros. Television.[28] Matt Miller joined as an additional executive producer in December.[29] In August 2021, Gunn said he wanted to make a second season of the series and was committed to doing so if the series was renewed by HBO Max.[30] He reiterated this after the series' premiere in January 2022, despite he and Cena not yet having deals to return for a second season and Gunn wanting to take a break after a busy few years.[5][14]

Writing[]

During the filming of The Suicide Squad, particularly for the scene where Peacemaker attempts to kill Ratcatcher 2, Gunn came to feel that Cena was a much stronger dramatic actor than he was considered to be after previously being known primarily as a professional wrestler and comedic actor. Gunn felt he would be able to show more of this dramatic side to Cena in a story focused on Peacemaker,[14] and also felt the character had not been explored or developed as much as other characters in The Suicide Squad.[16] He eventually decided to write a television series starring the character.[25] Gunn had never worked in television before and approached the project using his experience of writing film scripts and his knowledge of television series that he had seen. He saw the difference between film and television as the former needing to be "more cut and dried" due to the limited runtime while the latter has more time to explore complicated characters and relationships. A particular influence on the series was Better Call Saul, with Gunn drawing parallels between that series' protagonist, Saul Goodman, and Peacemaker.[14]

Peacemaker extends the world that Gunn built for The Suicide Squad,[3] taking place after the film's post-credit scene which reveals that Peacemaker survived an apparently fatal gunshot wound from earlier in the film.[16] Gunn said the series was an opportunity to explore current world issues through the title character,[3] and to expand on his relationship with his father that is hinted at in the film.[16] Gunn took eight weeks to write the first season, during a break between his work on The Suicide Squad and Marvel Studios' Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023).[25][31] He said the story of the first season was about Peacemaker coming to terms with the difference between his ideals and who he actually is.[4] Gunn described the series as "no holds barred" in a similar way to The Suicide Squad, but said it is also more grounded, quieter, and "a little bit more about society" than the film.[7] Like The Suicide Squad, the series features graphic violence and profanity, and HBO Max gave Gunn some notes on the abundant use of the word "fuck" as well as a specific moment in the sixth episode that they were concerned about but that Gunn insisted on keeping.[4] Other notes that Gunn received included questions about his references to certain characters, for instance Bat-Mite who is now canonically part of the DCEU due to this series referencing him; Gunn acknowledged these questions but was mostly able to make the references that he wanted to make, and was never required to make any specific connections to other projects or set-up future DCEU stories.[4]

Gunn mostly wrote the series in order, with the first two sequences he came up with on the first day of writing being the series' opening hospital scene and the dance number that is the series' opening title sequence.[4] Gunn wrote the dance number into the script because he thought it would be funny, and because he wanted to tell the audience that this would be different from other superhero television series and they should expect to be surprised.[32] The script describes the dance sequence as "the greatest opening credits scene of all time" and "the weirdest dance you've ever seen and everyone in it is completely and 100 percent serious". Gunn hoped that people would be interested enough in the sequence that they would not use the "Skip Intro" button that streaming services use since he felt it was important that viewers see the names of everyone who worked on the series. [33] For a similar reason, Gunn added a post-credits scene to the end of each episode as a way to reward fans who watched the full credits every time.[34] The scene where Peacemaker and Vigilante have an "elaborate target practice" where they shoot and blow-up things in the woods was inspired by Gunn doing similar things with his friends as a child.[14]

Casting[]

With the series order in September 2020, John Cena was confirmed to be reprising his role as Peacemaker from The Suicide Squad.[3] The next month, Gunn's close friend Steve Agee joined the series as John Economos, also returning from the film.[15] In November, Gunn's girlfriend Jennifer Holland joined as her The Suicide Squad character Emilia Harcourt, alongside Danielle Brooks as Leota Adebayo, Robert Patrick as Auggie Smith, and Chris Conrad as Adrian Chase / Vigilante.[6][13] Holland was surprised that Gunn brought her character back for the series, believing that her part in The Suicide Squad would be a short one-off role.[35] Chukwudi Iwuji joined the cast as Clemson Murn in December.[11] One of Gunn's favorite parts of making the series was being able work closely with Holland and Agee, and he soon became close friends with other members of the cast as well.[14]

Several recurring guests were also cast in December: Lochlyn Munro as Larry Fitzgibbon, Annie Chang as Detective Sophie Song, and Christopher Heyerdahl as Captain Locke.[11] Munro was cast as Fitzgibbon after Gunn saw his audition tape for the role and remembered that Munro had been one of his choices for the role of Shaggy Rogers in Scooby-Doo (2002) prior to Matthew Lillard's casting for that film.[36] In February 2021, several more recurring roles were cast: Elizabeth Ludlow as Keeya, Rizwan Manji as Jamil, Nhut Le as Judomaster, and Alison Araya and Lenny Jacobson as the couple Amber and Evan.[17][19][18] In late May, Freddie Stroma was cast to replace Conrad as Adrian Chase / Vigilante, after Conrad left the series due to creative differences.[9] The series' premiere revealed that Viola Davis also reprises her DCEU role as Amanda Waller in Peacemaker,[20] while Dee Bradley Baker voices Peacemaker's pet eagle Eagly after also providing the voice of Ratcatcher 2's pet rat Sebastien in The Suicide Squad.[21]

Filming[]

By early November 2020, Gunn had arrived in Canada for a two-week quarantine before starting production on the series.[37] Filming began on January 15, 2021, in Vancouver, Canada,[25] under the working title The Scriptures,[38] with Michael Bonvillain serving as cinematographer.[39] Gunn chose to film in Vancouver because he wanted the series to be set in the Pacific Northwest, and because he felt the production would be safer there because Canada was supposedly managing the pandemic better than the United States.[40] Gunn directed five of the series' episodes, with Jody Hill, Rosemary Rodriguez, and Brad Anderson each directing one.[24] One of the first scenes that the production filmed was the post-credits scene for The Suicide Squad that sets up the beginning of Peacemaker.[35]

External video
video icon Peacemaker | Opening Credits | HBO Max presents the series' opening titles dance sequence featuring the song "Do Ya Wanna Taste It" by Wig Wam, YouTube video from HBO Max's channel

The dance number for the series' opening titles was filmed in the middle of the series' filming schedule over one day in a high school auditorium.[32][33] It features the series' main cast as well as guest stars from several episodes, including Rizwan Manji who travelled to Canada and went through two weeks of quarantine for a third time just to be in the sequence. Gunn had originally planned for the sequence to be set in the Project Butterfly headquarters but they found it to be too small during rehearsals. When they located the auditorium, he asked production designer Lisa Soper to dress it like a 1970s variety show set. They eventually found that this also did not work and instead moved towards more 1980s designs, such as those used by the band Kraftwerk.[33] Gunn wanted the dancing to be outlandish and robotic, but he wanted all of the actors to do it very seriously and stoically,[35][4] as he felt that reflected the balance of seriousness and silliness that the series has. Gunn hired choreographer Charissa-Lee Barton to help him plan the sequence, and only found out later that she was married to actor Alan Tudyk, a friend of Gunn's, who stood-in for Peacemaker in rehearsal footage that Barton created while choreographing the dance. After the scene received positive responses when the series was released, Gunn said they wanted to "up [their] game" for a potential second season.[33]

Conrad had already filmed five-and-a-half episodes as Vigilante when he left the series, and Gunn re-shot all of those scenes with Stroma after the latter was hired to replace Conrad.[41] Davis's appearance as Waller in the series is on a Zoom call, but rather than have her make a Zoom call to the set in Vancouver the production went to Davis in Los Angeles to film her part.[14] Filming for the first season lasted 131 days and wrapped on July 11.[42]

Visual effects[]

After having a difficult time with the visual effects-heavy character King Shark in The Suicide Squad, Gunn said creating Eagly for Peacemaker was a lot easier. Weta Digital, who worked on King Shark, provided the visual effects for Eagly and based the animated model on an existing one that the company had previously used.[14]

Music[]

Gunn revealed in June 2021 that Clint Mansell and Kevin Kiner were composing the score for the series,[43] after The Suicide Squad composer John Murphy was busy writing the score for Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.[44] Murphy did perform and produce a cover of Foster the People's "Pumped Up Kicks", featuring Ralph Saenz, for the series, which was released as a single on January 9, 2022.[45] The following day, Gunn released a Spotify playlist featuring songs from the series; it initially just covered the first three episodes, including Murphy's version of "Pumped Up Kicks", but Gunn planned to update the playlist with each subsequent episode.[46]

Like with his feature films, Gunn selected all the songs for the series himself and wrote them into the script.[4] He chose the hair metal genre of music for the series because he thought it is what Peacemaker would listen to, and because he had spent the last few years exploring the genre after previously not being a fan of it.[33] He was excited to bring those songs, including some from new and unknown bands, to a new audience with the series like he had done with pre-1980s pop music on the soundtrack he selected for Guardians of the Galaxy (2014).[4] The series' opening title sequence features the song "Do Ya Wanna Taste It" by Wig Wam.[33]

Marketing[]

The first teaser trailer for the series was released during the virtual DC FanDome event in October 2021, along with some behind-the-scenes footage.[47] Commentators discussed the comedic tone of the teaser, feeling it was consistent with Gunn and Cena's work on The Suicide Squad, and also noted the hints that Brooks' Leota could help Peacemaker become a better person during the series. Peacemaker's pet eagle, Eagly, was also a highlight from the teaser.[48][49][50][51] From January 6 to May 27, 2022, the Warner Bros. Studio Tour Hollywood was updated to feature props and costumes from the series, including a life-sized version of Eagly.[52]

Release[]

Peacemaker debuted on January 13, 2022, on HBO Max,[47] with its first three episodes. The other five episodes are being released weekly through February 17.[23]

Reception[]

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 95% approval rating with an average rating of 7.60/10, based on 58 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "John Cena's still in solid form as Peacemaker, leading a bloody good time that gives writer-director James Gunn full permission to let his freak flag fly."[53] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 69 out of 100 based on 24 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[54]

IGN gave the first three episodes 8 out of 10, saying that "The three-episode premiere offers a goofy takedown of vigilantism" while praising the cast's performances and humor.[55] The Guardian gave the first three episodes a score of 3 out of 5 writing "James Gunn's Suicide Squad character gets his own HBO Max series with mixed results but a winning central performance."[56]

Notes[]

  1. ^ As depicted in The Suicide Squad (2021)

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