Peacemaker Grapples With A Parallel World — And Rick Flag's Vengeful Dad — In New Season 2 Trailer
Peacemaker is torn between a world where a livid Rick Flag Sr. wants vengeance, and a parallel world where the grass looks awfully greener, in a new Season 2 trailer unveiled Saturday at San Diego Comic-Con.
Details on Peacemaker's Season 2 storyline had been scarce for a long while, aside from showrunner/DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn saying, "It essentially picks up where Season 1 left off, with a couple minor differences" — including the fact that the Justice League that Peacemaker crossed paths with in the finale doesn't exist yet.
Now we have a formal synopsis, which reads, "Peacemaker discovers an alternate world where life is everything he wishes it could be. But this discovery also forces him to face his traumatic past and take the future into his own hands."
"What the whole season of Peacemaker revolves around" is the idea a pocket universe akin to the one Lex Luthor built in the new Superman film, Gunn said in a recent interview.
Peacemaker Season 2 is set for a Thursday, Aug. 21 premiere, releasing episodes weekly. Gunn wrote all eight episodes and directed three, including the premiere; Greg Mottola, Peter Sollett and Alethea Jones also directed.
Front man John Cena of course returns for Season 2, as does Jennifer Holland (as Emilia Harcourt), Steve Agee (as John Economos), Danielle Brooks (as Amanda Waller's daughter Leota Adebayo), Freddie Stroma (as Adrian Chase/Vigilante), Robert Patrick (as Chris Smith's father Auggie), Jand Nhut Le (as Judomaster) and Dee Bradley Baker (again voicing Eagly, who is back in a big way).
Among newcomers, MCU vet Frank Grillo plays Rick Flag Sr. — the new head of ARGUS and father of the Suicide Squad films' late Rick Flag Jr., who was played by Joel Kinnaman. (Grillo also voiced Flag Sr. in HBO Max's Creature Commandos, and made his live-action debut as the character in Gunn's Superman film.)
Additionally, SNL alum Tim Meadows plays ARGUS agent Langston Fleury; Michael Rooker is Red St. Wild, an eagle hunter with Eagly in his sights; Sol Rodriguez (Star Trek: Picard) plays Sasha Bordeaux (a Batman ally in the DC comics); and David Denman (The Office) fills an undisclosed role.
You can also expect cameos from Justice Gang members Guy Gardner/Green Lantern (The Rookie's Nathan Fillion) and Kendra Saunders/Hawkgirl (The Last of Us' Isabel Merced), plus their backer Maxwell Lord (Sean Gunn).
Peacemaker — which premiered Jan. 13, 2022, and earned a TVLine reader grade of "A" — was renewed for Season 2 back in February 2022, just hours before its Season 1 finale dropped. Filming began in the summer of 2024 and wrapped in late November.
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