{"id":14748,"date":"2025-09-27T18:16:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T09:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/?p=14748"},"modified":"2025-09-27T18:16:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T09:16:29","slug":"james-gunn-explains-why-that-superman-cameo-on-peacemaker-wasnt-who-you-hoped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/?p=14748","title":{"rendered":"James Gunn Explains Why That \u2018Superman\u2019 Cameo on &#8216;Peacemaker&#8217; Wasn\u2019t Who You Hoped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>For those who watched the newest episode of the HBO Max authentic and DC Studios collection <em><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/peacemaker-episode-6-recap-earth-x-lex-luthor-dc-2000664084\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peacemaker<\/a>,<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/james-gunn-accidentally-spoiled-some-superman-stars-coming-to-the-peacemaker-season-2-finale-2000663177\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the query on each <em>Superman<\/em> fan\u2019s thoughts has been answered<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/james-gunn-dcu-batman-costume-character-2000664092\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Gunn<\/a>. We lastly know who reveals as much as assist Rick Flag Sr. and ARGUS course-correct Peacemaker\u2019s complete portal door to Earth X (Nazi America) ordeal, main into the present\u2019s finale.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, in case you haven\u2019t watched, a spoiler warning is forward!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2000663500\" src=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/09\/io9-2025-spoiler.png\" alt=\"Io9 2025 Spoiler\" width=\"2625\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/09\/io9-2025-spoiler.png 2625w, https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/09\/io9-2025-spoiler-336x66.png 336w, https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/09\/io9-2025-spoiler-1280x251.png 1280w, https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/09\/io9-2025-spoiler-768x150.png 768w, https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/09\/io9-2025-spoiler-672x132.png 672w, https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/09\/io9-2025-spoiler-960x188.png 960w, https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/09\/io9-2025-spoiler-1600x313.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, (max-width: 1023px) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 1258px) calc((100vw - 3.68rem) * 2 \/ 3), 800px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2000664574\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2000664574\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2000664574\" src=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Peacemaker-DC-Studios.jpg\" alt=\"Peacemaker Dc StudiOS\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Peacemaker-DC-Studios.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Peacemaker-DC-Studios-336x224.jpg 336w, https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Peacemaker-DC-Studios-1280x853.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Peacemaker-DC-Studios-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Peacemaker-DC-Studios-672x448.jpg 672w, https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Peacemaker-DC-Studios-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Peacemaker-DC-Studios-1600x1067.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, (max-width: 1023px) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 1258px) calc((100vw - 3.68rem) * 2 \/ 3), 800px\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2000664574\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Warner Bros.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When it got here right down to who to get assist from with discovering the eleventh Road Youngsters and the place they took the portal, ARGUS director Rick Flag Sr. went to essentially the most highly effective villain they&#8217;ve of their pocket (jail cell). And that, after all, is Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult), who has an enormous value to make use of his tech to trace down Peacemaker and mates.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/peacemaker-lex-luthor-cameo-nazi-twist-no-superman-1236530679\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Selection<\/a>, director and DC head James Gunn mentioned the cameo that many thought could be David Corenswet as Superman and why it\u2019s not (regardless of a sure <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/james-gunn-accidentally-spoiled-some-superman-stars-coming-to-the-peacemaker-season-2-finale-2000663177\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peacemaker x Supes selfie<\/a>). Gunn even went so far as squashing our hopes to see an Earth X or Earth-1 Man of Metal, telling the commerce, \u201cNo,\u201d to the likelihood: \u201cThe truth is, David was very upset that Nick bought to be on the present, and he didn\u2019t. It simply didn\u2019t work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So no Nazi Superman, which in a method is a reduction as a result of we don\u2019t need to tarnish the feel-good method Corenswet opened his period because the hero.<\/p>\n<p>Gunn continued to clarify why he wanted Hoult again: \u201cI wanted Lex within the present to serve a particular objective. And really, what Lex and Rick Flag are as much as impacts very a lot what occurs in a facet of <em>Man of Tomorrow.<\/em> So all of that&#8217;s related. However this relationship between Rick Flag and Lex Luthor is a doubtlessly damaging factor for Superman and all meta-humans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He additionally mentioned that it has all been in alignment along with his plans for DC Studios as a part of his universe reset pitch from the get-go. \u201cI didn\u2019t know some issues about it, however I knew what the general story of the DCU was. That was one thing I pitched to [Warner Bros. Discovery CEO] David Zaslav earlier than we even took the job. I\u2019m like, right here\u2019s the story. There\u2019s going to be this film, this present, this film, this present, and people issues all slot in in several methods. Some issues got here, like <em>Clayface<\/em>, that we didn\u2019t count on, and different issues have been a tougher highway to journey. However the basic define of that total story is what we&#8217;re following by<em> Superman, Peacemaker,<\/em> <em>Man of Tomorrow,<\/em> and past.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Need extra io9 information? 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We lastly know who reveals as much as assist Rick Flag Sr. and ARGUS course-correct Peacemaker\u2019s complete portal door to Earth X (Nazi America) ordeal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pc-gimmick"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14749,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14748\/revisions\/14749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}