John Cena’s Peacemaker From ‘The Suicide Squad’ Is Getting an HBO Max Series Written by James Gunn

WarnerMedia John Cena’s Peacemaker character from upcoming movie “The Suicide Squad” is getting his own HBO Max series. James Gunn will write all eight episodes of the show’s first season. Gunn will also direct “multiple” episodes of the “Peacemaker” series, HBO Max said on Wednesday — including the first one. He and “The Suicide Squad” producer Peter Safran will executive produce action-comedy “Peacemaker,” which is based on the DC character and has a straight-to-series order at the WarnerMedia streaming service. Cena will co-executive produce the show, which hails from Gunn’s Troll Court Entertainment and The Safran Company in association with Warner Bros. Television. “Peacemaker” is scheduled to begin production in early 2021, ahead of Gunn’s work on the next “Guardians of the Galaxy” film. Gunn is the writer and director of “The Suicide Squad,” which will be released in theaters on Aug. 6, 2021. The “Peacemaker” series will serve as an origin story for Cena’s character in the upcoming movie “The Suicide Squad,” which is a confusingly named sequel to 2016’s “Suicide Squad,” which was written and directed by David Ayer. Master-of-weapons Peacemaker believes in peace “at any cost — no matter how many people he has to kill […]

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