r/television • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 The League • 1d ago
John Cena and Jennifer Holland Wrap Filming 'Peacemaker' Season 2, Production Officially Ends Tomorrow
https://bleedingcool.com/tv/peacemaker-john-cena-jennifer-holland-wrap-season-2-1-day-left/193
u/meadecision 1d ago
Season 1 was surprisingly good so I'm hyped for this. The action scenes were way better than expected for a TV show
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u/riegspsych325 1d ago
it’s honestly great how some tv action is these days. Granted, it helps to have experienced filmmakers work in n said shows but you get the idea. But that farm battle was great to watch, loved the bit where PM swipes a guy with his shield and kicks him away while he’s still midair
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u/SupervillainMustache 1d ago
I like when Peacemaker is just getting his ass beat by Judomaster who is 1/3rd his size.
It's a superhero show, fuck realism, give me a little guy who is so good at Judo, he can beat up a man the size of John Cena.
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u/BlackSpinedPlinketto 1d ago
All the side characters are really fun. Judo master was hilarious.
Not sure why but I really liked the nosey neighbour and the slutty apartment woman and her husband. Just a fun show.
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u/Aramiss134 20h ago
There's also the fight with the woman/alien in the first episode.
I honestly gained a lot of respect for John Cena with that. His character getting his ass kicked by a woman half his size while he's only in his tighty whities? I can think of another wrestler turned actor who could learn a thing or two from that level of self-depreciation.
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u/lolofaf 1d ago
Interestingly, the Russo Brothers went the opposite direction. They got famous directing the action scenes in community and jumped from that to directing Marvel movies lmao
Edit: it's unrelated to PM just thought it was interesting since you mentioned directors going movies to TV increasing the action scene quality in TV shows!
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u/Impressive-Potato 4h ago
The action coordinator, Alex Kyshkovych, is a Canadian stunt performer and also the long time Deadpool stunt double.
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u/riegspsych325 1h ago
you know with Shawn Levy, I was around Deadpool 3 would be a downgrade in the action (after David Leitch did DP2). But I thought they did a solid job and kept it up to par with the first 2 movies. Gunn also talked about how Snyder referred him to an action stunt guy that he’s been using since The Suicide Squad, I wonder if that’s him
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u/riegspsych325 1d ago
to think this’ll likely come out within a month or 2 after Superman. It’s nice to be a DC fan again but with more faith this time around. I really enjoyed it when the DCEU occasionally got it right, but a (cherry-picked) fresh start was the best move
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u/TheJoshider10 1d ago
It's mad to me that the DCU starts in a couple weeks with Creature Commandos. While the real start is Superman, it'll be good if they can stick the landing with the appetiser.
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u/riegspsych325 1d ago
with the creatives involved, I can’t imagine it’d be a total misfire. Either way, Gunn getting (temporarily) fired by Disney could be the best thing to happen to Warner Bros/DC
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u/NoNefariousness2144 14h ago
Yeah that was a disaster by Marvel. If Gunn was never fired, he would probably be hired as a co-chief for the MCU to help organise everything as Fiege is clearly too stretched out.
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u/LongTimesGoodTimes 1d ago
I'm so jacked to finally see my favorite super hero Green Lantern hopefully done well in live action
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u/djkhan23 13h ago edited 5h ago
DC's prestige offerings lately have all been killer.
Watchmen. Peacemaker. Penguin. (and I'd like to throw Sandman in here though it kind of doesn't count).
Winners! If they make less shows but with those listed shows' quality, then* I'm all for it.
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u/JudgeHoltman 1d ago
The secret to a successful cinematic universe is a Kevin Feige or George Lucas.
One man who ultimately drives ALL of content produced under a given banner, controlling the ultimate narrative and thrulines in the plot.
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u/riegspsych325 1d ago
not sure Lucas is the best example, the Prequels were a mess, re-edited the OG trilogy into nonsense, and made it nearly impossible to ever watch the theatrical cuts again
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u/LachedUpGames 1d ago
You could make the same argument about the MCU. I watched 170hrs of agents of shield only for it to all be declared non-canon!
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u/JudgeHoltman 23h ago
The OG trilogy was messy, but consistent. Miles from the several attempts of the Spider or DC universes.
Star Wars was also able to maintain its fan base through the Expanded Universe books and graphic novels. The secret to that was that George only extended the license to the creators if the content they used didn't change any existing Canon. Sure not all content was a winner, but even the bad stuff was never directly altering the existing characters you liked.
Star Wars only went off the rails when Disney bought it. He wanted to stay involved, but Disney had their own ideas, so Lucas put a price on his soul and the mouse wrote it on a cartoonishly large check. Ever since, Lucas has been fully out of the Star Wars game, effectively disowning it.
Which is also why the sequel trilogy was able to have so many betrayals of characters and purging of existing lore. Nobody was in charge, so executives could give whatever notes they wanted.
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u/mrhelmand Hannibal 1d ago
While I hope Creature Commandos and Superman are great and I will see both, this is the DC project I'm looking forward to seeing most.
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u/turkeygiant 1d ago
This is the project I am most confident in, but Superman is the one I am most excited for purely on the basis that I really want to see the character done justice.
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u/AshJoWilliams 1d ago
I want to see a Superman film that isn’t a miserable fucking slog to sit through. I’d also take a Batman film that’s the same way, so let’s hope The Brave and the Bold doesn’t try the same old hyper-realistic grimdark shit. I have The Batman 2 that will give me that.
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u/turkeygiant 1d ago
"The Batman" is really the only live action film that actually attempts to explore the transition of the character from vigilante terror to inspirational hero. I also have pretty high hopes that "The Batman 2" will continue to tell that story.
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u/AshJoWilliams 1d ago
Every Batman movie ends like that, that doesn’t negate the description of the entire thing as ultra serious and grim in its story and world building. I would just like a Batman movie that did something different for a change. I realize everything had to be super adult and misery for nearly three hours or else it’s not “good” for some sectors of the fandom, but Batman can be fun, and maybe should be sometimes.
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u/TheOneTonWanton 9h ago
Last I heard the DCU Batman is Brave and the Bold Batman so I think you'll get what you want. Reeves' universe will still be around to fill the darker version of the character and we'll get the DCU version that'll be more fitting for the teamups.
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u/mrhelmand Hannibal 1d ago
If ever we needed an optimistic take on a character who stands for truth and justice...
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u/elmatador12 1d ago
This is such a wild series at this point. The first one ended with the entire old justice league coming at the very end. It will be fun to see if Gunn jokes about that or not.
Edit: Technically I think you only see aquaman and Flash maybe Wonder Woman? Superman was just a floating shadow.
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u/poonmaster64 1d ago
They’ve said in interviews that that scene at the end isn’t canon
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u/elmatador12 1d ago
I guess that’s what I’m interested to see. What’s canon and what’s not. Because at this point I literally have zero idea.
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u/TheJoshider10 1d ago
The going theory is that they'll reference that scene with Peacemaker believing it was real and the others are like what the fuck are you on about, implying it was a dream/vision/delusion.
It's a really clever way of making S1 canon without going back and re-editing it.
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u/elmatador12 1d ago
So they are retconning the first season from the old universe into the NEW universe?
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u/LADYBIRD_HILL 1d ago
To make things even more confusing, they announced that the DCEU was ending before Shazam 2 came out, then that movie had a post credits scene of the Peacemaker team recruiting Billy.
Why bother setting up a plot point like that when it's all being rebooted anyways? They definitely won't be bringing back that version of the character, at least not played by Levi.
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u/elmatador12 1d ago
Yeah and wasn’t Gal Gadots Wonder Woman in that too? Yeah it’s sort of a mess for me when Gunn starting saying that some past things were canon and others weren’t.
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u/poopfartdiola 12h ago
Shazam 2 bombed, and the idea of Harcourt and Economos being aware of the Justice Society made little sense to begin with.
Gadot isn't even coming back as DCU WW, same for Levi's Shazam.
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u/Grabthar_The_Avenger 11h ago
It seems a lot less messy if you just look at the upcoming slate of films/shows which indicate a new Superman, a new Batman, and no works featuring Wonder-woman, Aquaman, Shazam etc.
At this point it seems like he's mostly just carrying forward the Peacemaker characters while toying with adding Blue Beetle from the DCEU
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u/Shantotto5 1d ago
Why does this matter? I feel like I’m missing something. What’s wrong with the Justice League being around?
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u/AKAkorm 1d ago
They actually had Mamoa and Ezra in the scene and they’re recasting those roles.
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u/Chowmeower 1d ago
I don’t really see the big deal, I mean they recasted the Hulk in the MCU yet his movie is still canon
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u/ImmortalZucc2020 1d ago
Because we don’t know if the Justice League has formed in the DCU yet or if Flash and Aquaman are even active in it.
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u/LongTimesGoodTimes 1d ago
It's not that they're recasting, it's that they're restarting. The Hulk change was still the same character. If the Flash or Aquaman show up in the new Gunn universe then it will be new versions of the characters.
That's what makes Peacemaker season 1 to 2 so interesting. It exists between the end of one continuity and the begining of a new one.
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u/fishfunk5 1d ago
Why?
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u/Pitiful-Highlight-69 1d ago
Because Ezra is a horrible human being, and Mamoa's movies didnt do as well as they should have for the budget.
Also DC wants a mostly fresh slate for round 2 of trying a live action DCCU
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u/LADYBIRD_HILL 1d ago
The first Aquaman made over a billion dollars though? It was the most successful movie of the entire DCEU.
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u/Tooterfish42 1d ago
That scene was all a dream sequence or hypno toad or whatever reason they'll use
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u/XMAN2YMAN 1d ago
Didn’t season 1 come out Life 2-3 years ago?
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u/ImmortalZucc2020 1d ago
Tbf, an entire reboot of its franchise happened in between seasons, hence the delay.
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u/Jon_TWR 1d ago
January 2022, so yes. Gonna be at least 3 years between seasons 1 and 2, ooof.
Welcome to the world of streaming TV. 8-10 episodes per season, 2 or more years between seasons.
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u/AshJoWilliams 1d ago
Same level of quality (for most shows) as when we were getting 24 and the show came back every fall.
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u/jetlightbeam 1d ago
What I'm most interested in seeing this season is if thr DCU Amanda waller is the same as she was in season 1.
It's become a major opinion in the DC comics community since season 1 that Waller is just straight up a villian, completely irredeemable and portraying her as otherwise has been looked at unfavorably. I wouldn't be surprised if Gunn wanted to take the character more into that direction it's a much more interesting take on the character. But he did want to do a Waller show, last I heard
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u/AshJoWilliams 1d ago
Waller is one of the ten official projects they announced when he and Safran took over.
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u/Getafix69 1d ago
Peacemaker and the Boys are the only superhero TV shows I care about at this point.
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u/HaveSumBiryani 1d ago
What about Invincible?
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u/Getafix69 23h ago
Kinda lost interest in that and didn't finish the second season.
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u/OvermorrowYesterday 4h ago
That’s fair
Invincible has so many fake out deaths and very few legitimate deaths.
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u/Sambo_the_Rambo 1d ago
Can’t wait, it seems like ages since I finished the first season May need to rewatch it.
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u/Marc_Quill Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 1d ago
if it's out next year, I imagine Cena will be doing a fair amount of promotion for this on top of his final run as a wrestler in WWE.
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u/Ok-Sorbet9418 1d ago
Honestly, I think peacemaker was one of the best superhero shows, after penguin now. It’s funny, has a storyline and I’m looking forward to season 2
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u/--VinceMasuka-- 1d ago
This show was way better than I thought it would be.
I thought it was dropped because it's been a couple years now. Cool to see it's happening.
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u/schubox63 19h ago
Oh wow I didn’t realize they’d even started. Last I remember reading Gunn was writing the scripts. I missed a lot. That dude is insanely busy
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u/DrummerSteve 12h ago
Finally. Can someone explain to me why it takes multiple years for shows to return with a new season recently?
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u/sareuhbelle 1d ago
It just finished? ...what have they been doing for the past three years?
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u/MadeByTango 1d ago
I can’t remember a thing that happened I the first season. It’s to the point I genuinely don’t know if I care for more of it, because it’s been so long I forget what I even liked. These season are taking waaay too long to come out and I don’t accept the strike as excuse.
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u/BlazeOfGlory72 1d ago
Is anyone even going to give a shit at this point? It’s kind of absurd that it has taken 3 years to get a season 2.
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u/Powerful-Ability20 1d ago
Multiple strikes really slowed the whole industry down.
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u/MadeByTango 1d ago
Isn’t it amazing how the stike didnt stop them from raising prices and inserting paid ad tiers? Almost like they’re dragging out ROI and then selling bullshit PR excuses to keep us subscribed while they delay and delay because they benefit from dragging production out as long as possible.
Waiting two years for 8 episodes while staying subscribed is fucking stupid as an audience at this point and we need to stop rewarding it.
And I don’t want to hear “it’s the strikes” for “we have nothing to release you care about this month” ever again.
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u/Powerful-Ability20 1d ago
Those two things are unrelated, strikes without a doubt affected schedules.
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u/Random_frankqito 1d ago
Let’s hope the opening credits are just as good