James Gunn seemingly confirms which character will arrive immediately after ‘Superman: Legacy’

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James Gunn should be taking a break after delivering what was arguably the best MCU movie to come out in quite a few years, but the new DCU boss doesn’t seem to tire of outlining his plans for the future of superhero media in live-action.

When Gunn isn’t promoting The Flash in a last perfunctory attempt to help give it a fighting chance at the box office, he is usually busy discussing the future of DC with fans on social media. That itself comes in two forms; debunking wild speculation, and laying down little breadcrumbs for the most enthused to chew on.

So, I guess what he recently revealed on Michael Rosenbaum’s YouTube podcast can be categorized as the latter. When asked whether John Cena’s Peacemaker is coming back, Gunn said:

“No, Peacemaker is coming back right after Superman. That’s my next thing. [I’ll] go straight from Superman to Peacemaker.”

So, there you have it, folks. While Peacemaker isn’t necessarily going to be the next DCU project to arrive after Superman: Legacy, it’s going to be Gunn’s next personal venture. And who knows? With all the pieces of the puzzle already in place, making the next season of Peacemaker is going to be a walk in the park for Gunn, at least in comparison to the rest of the balls he’s juggling at the moment.

It must be an incredible amount of work — crippling, even. During the podcast, the director told Rosenbaum that he initially didn’t want to accept this stupefying job offer, but when Peter Safran — who has been Gunn’s manager for more than a decade — also joined the equation, the prospects of turning into a Kevin Feige in his own right didn’t appear as intimidating as before.

Let’s hope that he manages to do as good a job as his MCU counterpart has done over these long years.

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Jonathan is a religious consumer of movies, TV shows, video games, and speculative fiction. And when he isn’t doing that, he likes to write about them. He can get particularly worked up when talking about ‘The Lord of the Rings’ or ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ or any work of high fantasy, come to think of it.