Honestly, James Gunn's new Creature Commandos trailer looks fun as hell
Gunn also teased that we'll be seeing at least some of these characters in live-action, including in his upcoming Superman.
Saloni Gajjar contributed original reporting to this piece. (Image: YouTube)
We got a tease, about a month back, of James Gunn’s new animated series Creature Commandos—the show laboring, kind of unfairly, under the weight of being Gunn’s first DC Comics project since he and Peter Safran took over DC Studios a few years back. Today, Gunn showed off a brand new, and much bigger, trailer for the series, which is basically a continuation of his The Suicide Squad, for the crowds at New York Comic-Con. And, can we say? Looks kind of cool as hell.
The premise is, as previously established, that Viola Davis’ Amanda Waller has been ordered not to use human prisoners in her various “Task Force X” “use bad guys to do good things” operations. So she recruits monsters instead, including a couple of Frankensteins, a robot, a flaming skeleton, a fish lady, and, of course, Gunn’s brother Sean. (Reprising his brief role as Weasel from the earlier film, as well as voicing the aforementioned robot.) Set to the strains of “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” it looks like classic Gunn “superhero” fare: Darkly funny, energetic, and gory as hell.