Even before James Gunn was hired to co-run DC Studios with Peter Safran, he was carving out a comfortable space for himself in the DC Comics media space. After being hired to write and direct 2021’s The Suicide Squad, he then delivered the spinoff series Peacemaker in 2022. Now the latter is about to begin airing on the 2025 TV schedule, but unlike last time, Gunn did not direct all of Season 2’s episodes. He’s now explained why he helmed certain episodes of this entry that’s soon disappearing from the upcoming DC shows slate and not others.
During the Peacemaker Season 2 junket that CinemaBlend attended, our own Hannah Saulic asked James Gunn how he decided which episodes to direct this time around, as well as if it harder when he was in the process to separate it than he thought it would be Gunn, who is confirmed to have helmed the first, sixth and eighth episodes of this new season for fans with an HBO Max subscription, started off by saying:
