The “Peacemaker” finale gave us our best look yet at the future of James Gunn’s DC Universe

I started with Commando Creatures and I became deeper with Supermanbut It was the end for Peacemaker As James Gunn has already begun to pull back the curtain on his plans for the DC Universe. Since the beginning of this journeyGunn has made it clear that he has a plan for a big, overarching story in the DC Universe. You don’t have to watch every piece of content to understand it, but it will hook you.

And while there was excitement before, there’s an end Peacemaker Season 2 is the first and best time we have an idea of ​​where all of this is headed.

So in the end Peacemaker In Season 2, the Peacemaker himself (John Cena) was relegated to Redemption, a dimension in which the government began placing superhumans it didn’t want to deal with. and, Talk to Rolling StoneGunn emphasized that the idea of ​​redemption is the root cause of not only the future of Peacemaker, but of the DC Universe in general.

“People should expect that the way the military and Rick (Flag) and everyone else is working together and that they’ve created an illegal imprisonment of metahumans in another dimension is probably going to be part of the DCU’s stories going forward,” Gunn said. “And it’s not just the third part, ‘Oh, this is Arkham’ — it’s part of the stories. There’s an escalating war, obviously, between the government and the metahumans. And that’s part of it.”

This “escalating war” will also be part of the next two big pieces of the puzzle: Lanterns On HBO Max and Supergirlin theaters in June 2026. “Both things have been in the works,” Gunn said. “We knew that both stories were part of what we originally brought together, so they’re part of the overall fabric, but they’re also their own thing. Supergirl Especially since it’s a space adventure. It’s like guardians (of the galaxy). Lanterns It’s its own thing. There’s kind of a longer, broader world that we’re building with all these different pieces, and they come together and intersect sometimes in a story way and sometimes in a “here’s another piece of the world” way.

Of course, you start to see that when you remember that Peacemaker saw Rick Flag Sr. and Lex Luthor, the star of the next movie Superman film, Man of tomorrowin cooperation during this time. But, as Gunn said, the big threat of the 2027 movie will be something entirely new.

“There’s one big story,” Gunn said He said this in a separate interview, as reported by Screen Summary. “On the one hand, it’ll be fine to watch on its own, but there’s still a bigger story being told that involves, say, redemption. And that story involves Rick Flag, and it involves Lex and Superman, so I’ll be directing those movies.”

“I don’t expect people to come in Man of tomorrow “And you know what salvation is,” Gunn added. “We’ll say that in the movie. You’ll find out anything you need to know, like the metahuman’s disappearance, through this movie.”

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