Peacemaker Season 2’s DCU Connection to Lanterns Explained by James Gunn

The Peacemaker Season 2 finale aired on Thursday, and ushered in some major future consequences for the DCU, ones which James Gunn says will be seen in the upcoming HBO series Lanterns.

What is Lantern’s connection to the Peacemaker Season 2 finale?

In Peacemaker’s second season finale, Chris Smith/Peacemaker (John Cena) open their own agency, called Checkmate, an organization that has a deep history in DC Comics as a splinter agency of Task Force X. Elsewhere in the finale, Rick Flag Sr. (Frank Grillo) is fully established as a villain, as he kidnaps Chris and abandons him in “Salvation,” an alternate reality prison that he intends to use as a prison for superhumans.

Speaking to Screen Brief, DC Studios co-head James Gunn revealed that many things about the show’s finale will not only set up the upcoming Man of Tomorrow movie, but the future of the DCU. Specifically, the upcoming HBO show Lanterns, which Gunn said is connected to everything.

“Lanterns is very connected to all of that. It may not seem like it, but it is all very connected,” said Gunn.

Gunn also said that the “Salvation” prison will also play a big role in the future of the DCU, and will let him explore how “bad metahumans are going to have to figure out a new way to create a society.”

(Source: Screen Brief)

Originally reported by Anthony Nash on SuperHeroHype.

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