‘Creature Commandos’ Is a ‘Soft Intro’ to the New DC Universe, Says James Gunn: ‘We Can Make Something That’s Violent and Sexual’
variety.comAdam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer In mid-2022, executives from what was then called HBO Max approached James Gunn about doing another series adapted from DC Comics, following his hit “Peacemaker.” His first idea: an animated show loosely based on the DC comics characters known as the Creature Commandos, i.e.
group of monsters thrown together into a black ops team tasked with taking out their enemy by any means necessary. He wrote the seven-episode first season over a few weeks on spec — and then Warner Bros.
Discovery CEO David Zaslav hired Gunn and “Peacemaker” executive producer Peter Safran to run DC Studios and relaunch the DC Universe. “And I said, ‘Oh, I know what I can greenlight!’” Gunn says with a laugh.
Two years later, the merrily TV-MA series “Creature Commandos,” debuting on Max on Dec. 5, is serving as a kind of appetizer for the new DCU, before Gunn’s feature film “Superman” provides the main course when it premieres in July 2025.
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