'Peacemaker' Season 2 Begins Production
Do ya really wanna do you really wanna wait for it? Throw your camera so all the stars shone
Peacemaker season 2, the only project to bring DCEU characters into DC Studios’s new DC Universe, has begun production. Creator James Gunn, who shepherds the crossing of realities having ascended to co-CEO of DC Studios, marks the occasion with a snapshot of the character’s very reflective helmet.
Gunn posted the picture to Instagram and Threads with the simple caption “Day 1 S2. 🧜♂️” Gunn continues to use the mermaid with trident emoji to ambiguous unexplained effect, but of course, star John Cena was mermaid Barbie in last summer’s Barbie, so maybe it’s something playful like whatever Gunn and Nathan Fillion have going on. And yes, filming for Superman is still going on, but as he told a fan on Threads “It’s a Saturday.😅 Pre-shoot.” Because of Gunn’s increased duties that everyone knows, he has clarified that he’s directing some episodes, including what was worked on Saturday, but the season will have three other directors stepping in and bringing their energy.
Peacemaker, in a first season that Cena reprised his role from Gunn’s 2021 film The Suicide Squad that first brought him to DC, did so well for what was then HBO Max that the second season was ordered before the season ended. That was more than half a year before Gunn was named to his DC Studios position, and thus before the universal shift was conceived. The character Peacemaker is a “vainglorious” believer in peace at any cost, no matter how many kills it takes. That first season also starred Danielle Brooks, Jennifer Holland, Freddie Stroma, Chukwudi Iwuji, Steve Agee, and Robert Patrick, though not everyone survived. Of the eight first season episodes, Gunn wrote all of them (in pandemic lockdown) and directed the first and four others. Gunn, his fellow co-CEO Peter Safran and Matt Miller serve as executive producers on the series, with Cena as co-executive producer and Stacy Littlejohn as consulting producer. Peacemaker is produced by Gunn’s Troll Court Entertainment and Safran’s The Safran Company in association with Warner Bros. Television.
The second season was not expected to premiere until late 2025, after Superman’s July 11, 2025 theatrical release date. It was also supposed to be coming after its own spinoff, Waller, starring Viola Davis’s Amanda Waller, however the strikes did impact its production, so it will now premiere after season 2 of Peacemaker, though it’s unclear if they’re both after Superman or if the latter has moved up into the former’s spot.
