‘Creature Commandos' Renewed For Season 2 At Max
The new DC Universe is very much a success thus far.
Well here’s something you haven’t gotten to hear much at the competing comic company studio: a renewal. Halfway into its first season, Max has renewed DC Studios’s Creature Commandos for a second season.
The first project to come from the new DC Universe, it’s considered a soft-launch before July’s release of Superman, starring David Corenswet, and this renewal comes on the Monday after the release of the film’s first trailer, which according to Warner Bros. is its most ever viewed with over 250 million views. With not only these two projects but the wrapping of Peacemaker season 2, many were asking what would be next for James Gunn to make, the creative force behind all three projects and is co-CEO and co-chairman of DC Studios. Created the series, wrote all the episodes as well as Superman, which is also a directorial effort. Now, having a whole new set of Commandos episodes we means we have our first answer.
“We’re thrilled to team up with Max for another season of Creature Commandos mayhem,” said Gunn and his DC Studios co-chairman Peter Safran, both executive producers, in a statement. “From our spectacular first season of Peacemaker to the astonishing run of The Penguin to the record-breaking launch of Creature Commandos, Max has consistently delivered above industry expectations and beyond our wildest imaginings. Thank you, Casey, Sarah, Pia, Sono and the entire team for your tremendous support of DC Studios. We are proud to call Max home.”
Added Amy Gravitt, Vice President of HBO and Max comedy programming, “Only James Gunn could have conjured this wild band of misfit monsters who tug at your heart and force you to root passionately for them. We couldn’t be more delighted to continue their stories with James, Dean Lorey, Peter Safran and our fantastic partners at DC Studios and Warner Bros. Animation.” Produced by DC Studios and Warner Bros. Animation, Lorey is an executive producer on the series, as is WBA head Sam Register. Rick Morales serves as supervising producer.
“Thanks to the brilliant imagination of James and the talent of our amazing artists, DC fans fell in love with this new family of heroes,” said Peter Girardi, executive Vice President of alternative programming at Warner Bros. Animation. “We are excited to continue this wild ride with our partners at Max. You want more monsters, you’re getting more monsters.” And that last line is how Gunn announced the series renewal on social media.
The first season featured Amanda Waller, voiced by Viola Davis, unable to jeopardize human lives following her secret business with both the Suicide Squad aka Task Force X and Team Peacemaker. She goes further rogue and builds a new team, Task Force M, the Creature Commandos, which are essentially a bunch of “misfit monsters”. They include Frank Grillo as Rick Flag Sr., Sean Gunn reprising as Weasel and playing G.I. Robot, Maria Bakalova as Princess Ilana Rostovic, Indira Varma as The Bride, Anya Chalotra as Circe, Zoe Chao as lagoon creature Nina Mazursky, Alan Tudyk as Dr. Phosphorus and Clayface, and David Harbour as Eric Frankenstein, with Steve Agee reprising his role as John Economos.
Nearly four years into Marvel Studios’s Disney+ productions, hearing a series renewal hasn’t really happened as most of the initial slate was conceived as limited series. Existent successive seasons were pretty much pre-baked into the animated fare like What If…?, X-Men ‘97, and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, and extends to the live-action Daredevil: Born Again which had an eighteen episode order split into two seasons of nines. It still might be a while before we see the effect of their overhauled production practices in the name of long-form storytelling. It’s likelier Creature Commandos season 2 will come sooner than that.
Creature Commandos’s fifth episode will be released on Thursday, December 26, and upon concluding on January 9 will be succeeded in release position by the fifth season of Harley Quinn.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter