Warning: this article contains spoilers. If you haven't watched "The Suicide Squad," be aware that the next post contains storey details and the finale.
The violence in “The Suicide Squad,” with writer/director James Gunn taking out the vast bulk of his supervillain lineup — including John Cena's Peacemaker, the title character of a forthcoming HBO Max spinoff programme – is nothing compared to the “Game of Thrones” Red Wedding episode.
At least for a little while.
The new “Squad” (now in cinemas and available on HBO Max) began with tragedy – poor Weasel (Sean Gunn) drowned after leaping out of an aircraft – and then spiralled out of control when nearly half of our heroes perished. the beach of the fictional South American island of Corto Maltese, including returnee Captain Boomerang (Jai Courtney).
Task Force X discovered that the location was home to Starro the Conqueror, a mind-controlling gigantic starfish from space. Peacemaker assassinated group leader Rick Flag (Joel Kinnaman) after Flag refused to destroy records of America's deep involvement with the Starro experiment, Bloodsport (Idris Elba) shot Peacemaker and left him for dead in a crumbling building, and poor Polka-Dot Man (David Dastmalchian) was crushed by one of Starro's enormous arms.
Bloodsport, Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), Ratcatcher 2 (Daniela Melchior), and King Shark were the only ones to make it out alive (voiced by Sylvester Stallone). Until the two end-credits sequences, that is: Weasel wakes up on the beach and rushes away in the first. Peacemaker is still alive in the other – surprise! – and is lying in a hospital bed when two workers of Task Force X commander Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) grudgingly pay a visit to the comatose Squad member.
“Are you aware that this is a kind of retaliation? Waller knows we betrayed her, and she's retaliating by putting us in charge of this (jerk),” John Economos (Steve Agee) tells Emilia Harcourt (Jennifer Holland).
The doctor replies, “I heard he was a bit of a hero down in Corto Maltese,” before adding, “What do you people want him for?” Harcourt's response: "All I want to do is save the (expletive) planet."
That tease sets the tone for Gunn's upcoming “Peacemaker” series, which will premiere in January. The programme wasn't conceived until Gunn had completed his first production work on "Squad," and the post-credit sequence was shot during the filming of "Peacemaker." which co-stars Agee and Holland alongside Cena.
Gunn says, "I'm thinking of different storylines that can be done with these people." “And for whatever reason, I used to enjoy that terrible 'Captain America' TV movie when I was a child (from 1979). That was the most amazing thing in the world to me. So I thought to myself, "What would a very messed-up version of it with the character of Peacemaker look like today?"
Gunn says that the HBO Max series has a 1970s TV show vibe, an “All in the Family” aspect, and even some politics, “which I only touched the surface of in ‘Suicide Squad,' but get to deal with a little bit more thoroughly with the ‘Peacemaker' programme.”
Gunn confirms that Peacemaker is "very right-wing." Cena's morally dubious nationalist boasts in an early "Squad" sequence that he'll do anything in the name of liberty, including kill, to which Bloodsport answers, "I think 'liberty' is simply your excuse to do anything you want." Peacemaker and a character portrayed by “Orange Is the New Black” actor Danielle Brooks — “someone on the opposite side of the political spectrum” – have a “conversation” about “where we can come together” in the forthcoming season, according to Gunn.
“When James creates something, he swings a lot "Cena adds. "And I sincerely hope that ‘Peacemaker' will be a series that people speak about for a variety of reasons. We’ve got something that is going to be conversational and that people want more of.”
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