The Suicide Squad writer-director James Gunn says his television spin-off Peacemaker is about a “pretty rotten piece of sh*t” — and that’s exactly why he wanted to make the John Cena-starring series for HBO Max.
“So I talked to the folks at HBO about it, and they were like, ‘Hey, if you could do any character at all from Suicide Squad for a movie, who would you do?’ I said it would be Peacemaker, because he’s a pretty rotten piece of sh*t, and I thought he had more room to grow than some of the other characters,” Gunn added.
“James and Peter Safran approached me and said, ‘We have this idea.