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Yesterday, Gunn revealed that Peacemaker season 2 will now be released before Waller and, taking place in the DCU and picking up after the events of SUPERMAN.
Despite that, season 1 is no longer canon. In fairness. that makes sense when Christopher Smith crossed paths with the DCEU's Justice League, but many fans were disappointed to think the character's journey from villain to anti-hero never happened.

Well, the filmmaker is attempting to clarify things today by explaining that parts of Peacemaker's first season are canon...and others are not.
We get that Gunn didn't want to say goodbye to Cena's Peacemaker - the actor is phenomenal in the role - but that might have been the less convoluted option!

To summarise, Peacemaker season 2 is happening, but only parts of Peacemaker season 1 are considered canon in the DCU. Cena, meanwhile, will reprise the role, even though the vast majority of the DCEU's actors won't return because this is supposed to be a reboot.

James Gunn Attempts To Clear Up PEACEMAKER Confusion By Revealing Season 1 Is AND Isn't DCU Canon

The DCU hasn't got started yet, but it's beginning to feel every bit as convoluted as its predecessor, the DCEU, thanks to DC Studios' decision to keep some actors and recast others. Here's the latest...

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Should’ve been a full reboot imo.

 

[sankt-Antonio]

Who still gives a shit about super hero movies?

 

[Esca]

Whenever I see something about the dcu I see money swirling down the toilet.
Movies games doesn't matter anymore. They've destroyed it and super hero movies aren't bringing people in like they use to.

 

[NecrosaroIII]

Just reboot the whole thing. Borrow what you like, and discard the rest

 

[Bridges]

Just reboot the whole thing. Borrow what you like, and discard the rest

He doesn't want to get rid of The Suicide Squad and its characters because it's what he made.

And in his defense, it's pretty much the only DC movie worth watching in the old universe

 

[Hawking Radiation]

Who still gives a shit about super hero movies?

Superman is my favourite superhero but I can't even bring myself to feel a smidge of hype for the next one. I just can't and I think that goes for anything else superhero related. I feel burned out on the genre to be honest.

 

[DeafTourette]

Ok... Lemme ask: everyone saying they have superhero fatigue or whatever, do you have it for movies that are actually good or just the last few years of mediocre movies?

I doubt anyone can "honestly" say they haven't liked ANY since Iron Man. Because some folks have said something like that in this forum.

 

[FunkMiller]

Time for the nobody gives a shit anymore dance.

Gunn is being a prick by insisting his own shit gets to carry over while nobody else's does.

 

[SirKicksalot]

Ok... Lemme ask: everyone saying they have superhero fatigue or whatever, do you have it for movies that are actually good or just the last few years of mediocre movies?

I doubt anyone can "honestly" say they haven't liked ANY since Iron Man. Because some folks have said something like that in this forum.

I liked the Snyderverse and Captain America and now they're gone. Reading all this canon bullshit above makes my head hurt. I just wanted more Cavill and Batfleck, not this clusterfuck.

 

[poppabk]

I liked season 1, but are they really expecting me to watch a season 2 where half the things in season 1 didn't happen?

 

[JonSnowball]

Time for the nobody gives a shit anymore dance.

Gunn is being a prick by insisting his own shit gets to carry over while nobody else's does.

Peacemaker is actually a fun show, and it uses the word faggot numerous times which I'd imagine would appeal to you being right on the tip of edginess in the modern age.

 

[CoreyFlawless]

Man, who cares. Felt like it kinda had it own story. Like you didn’t even need to know what happen in the other dcu movies. Just keep doing the peacemaker story and just add whatever story u want in dcu in the background. It be find. Don’t fuck up peacemaker.

 

[Puscifer]

Who still gives a shit about super hero movies?

FWIW the show is great and I'm beyond fucking sick of capeshit.

 

[Doom85]

Gunn is being a prick by insisting his own shit gets to carry over while nobody else's does.

Blue Beetle is being carried over (the actor playing the character, last we’ve heard the movie itself won’t be canon), so this is blatantly false. Which makes sense since if they’re doing a Booster Gold film, Ted Kord will likely be involved, which also means they could give Jaime a role as well. Not to mention Voila Davis playing Waller, again, not something that originated in one of Gunn’s productions.

Regardless, Geezus fucking Christ, “prick”, really? You know who could be called that (and even then I wouldn’t go that far)? Dwayne Johnson, for taking the role of Black Adam, and then refusing to play ball and be in Shazam 2 by saying “Shazam is too silly for me” never mind that Black Adam is Shazam’s primary antagonist!

Seriously, the man has delivered excellent adaptation after excellent adaptation. I’m glad the new movie verse can play by his rules (but really, they have already said they’re letting the directors/writers’ visions be preserved for the announced projects). You want actual “pricks” in terms of someone overseeing stories of superheroes? Maybe actually look into the shenanigans of Joe Quesada or Dan Didio, now THAT is some “prick” behavior.

 

[March Climber]

FWIW the show is great and I'm beyond fucking sick of capeshit.

That means you aren’t sick of capeshit, you’re sick of shit TV.

If the pendulum starts swinging back, it would be odd to say ‘only these count’ when it keeps happening.

 

[MudoSkills]

I'm sure the four people concerned with the continuity and integrity of the DCEU will be devastated.

 

[FunkMiller]

I'm not sure at this point whether Snyder fans or Gunn fans are worse...

 

[Jinzo Prime]

I do not want to explain the canonicity of a fucking superhero movie to my parents! The multiverse shit on the Marvel side was bad enough! I'm done!!

 

[scoobidoo112]

Christ what a convoluted mess. Either reboot the whole thing, or continue with what you have, not both at the same time.

This whole thing is doomed to fail at this point.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Throw out all of it. None of it was good.

 

[DeafTourette]

Throw out all of it. None of it was good.

Cap!