Joel Kinnaman wants DC Comics fans to believe he will not reprise his role as Rick Flag Jr. in HBO’s Peacemaker. Kinnaman first appeared in the DCEU film Suicide Squad in 2016 and reprised his role in James Gunn‘s The Suicide Squad in 2021.
Although Kinnaman’s character was killed off in the 2021 film, there are rumors that he would appear in Gunn’s Peacemaker Season 2, which gives continuity to that timeline.
Earlier this year, the director of the HBO series, Peter Sollett, tagged Kinnaman in a show wrap post (later deleted), which hinted that Rick Flag Jr.
would show up somehow. “I don’t know what to say. That’s ridiculous,” Kinnaman told Screenrant about returning to the DC Universe. “I would never.
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