James Gunn Lifts the Lid on DC’s Creature Commandos

DC Comics followers got a teaser for Creature Commandos at July’s San Diego Comedian-Con; now, we all know precisely when the animated collection that may correctly kick off James Gunn‘s DC reign will arrive: Thursday, December 5. After the premiere, you’ll be able to watch a brand new entry every week on Max by means of January 16, for a complete of seven episodes.

A press launch with the date announcement—accompanied by the fiery new picture you see right here—reiterated the official logline: “Creature Commandos tracks a secret group of incarcerated monsters recruited for missions deemed too harmful for people. When all else fails… they’re your final, worst choice.”

It additionally ran down the stacked cast: Steve Agee as Economos, Maria Bakalova as Princess Ilana, Anya Chalotra as Circe, Zoe Chao as Nina Mazursky, Frank Grillo as Rick Flag Sr., Sean Gunn as GI Robotic & Weasel, David Harbour as Frankenstein, Alan Tudyk as Dr. Phosphorus, Indira Varma because the Bride, and Viola Davis as Amanda Waller.

The present is written by Gunn, who’s additionally certainly one of its government producers—in addition to one of many guys (together with Peter Safran) overseeing this brand-new chapter for DC. Chatting with Entertainment Weekly, he shared his pleasure in regards to the present in addition to DC’s future. He has his personal live-action Superman movie arriving subsequent summer season, in fact, which he describes as a “humongous epic.” Creature Commados, against this, is extra of “a method for individuals to only take a bit of nibble [of the new DC universe] and see what it tastes like.”

Within the interview, he likened Creature Commandos to his Marvel trilogy of Guardians of the Galaxy movies; simply from that official logline you’ll be able to see the similarities, and Gunn agrees he’s a fan of “oddballs and irregular sorts and weirdos.” (Additionally not not like his Suicide Squad film characters, come to think about it.) Nonetheless, there’s a key distinction, too: “The Guardians are all actually good characters at their coronary heart, and that simply isn’t essentially the case with the creatures.”

Head to EW to learn extra from Gunn, together with how his present’s tackle Frankenstein and the Bride might be a bit completely different than what horror followers are used to from the traditional characters; he additionally teases how Creature Commandos will provide “bunch of hints for issues which are coming [in the DC universe] … I believe it’s simply an awfully enjoyable solution to begin.”

Creature Commandos kicks off December 5 on Max.

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