Frank Grillo chided by James Gunn as Adria Arjona Wonder Woman rumors continue

Anyway, despite DC co-CEO and director of Man Of Tomorrow James Gunn’s best efforts to keep a lid on the truth of it all, it seems the social media presence of actor Frank Grillo, who plays Rick Flag Sr. in the DC Universe, has thrown a Beppo wrench in the super-works. After reposting a fan-made image of Arjona in Wonder Woman’s signature tiara on Instagram, Grillo publicly caught some flak from his Peacemaker director for posting junk on his account. “It’s Frank reposting somebody because it has his photo in it and he loves himself,” Gunn said to a fan on Threads after said fan narced Grillo out to the director. “I can assure you Frank doesn’t know who Adria is playing in the DCU and whether or not she has any sort of incredibly small cameo in MOT or not.” 

And just to make sure everyone knows that Frank Grillo doesn’t know a damn thing about the movie he’s co-starring in, Gunn shared screenshots of him gently chiding the actor in a text thread. “You don’t believe he doesn’t know anything? Exhibit A,” Gunn said, showing how embarrassed and repentant Grillo was about sharing a nice photo of himself that just so happened to suggest Wonder Woman is in his next movie, perish forbid. “I’m not gonna post anymore, bro,” Grillo responded to Gunn. “I can’t keep up with this.” To which Gunn jumped on the chance to kindly roast Grillo: “It allowed me to address it in a way that’s beneficial to us I think and also got to make fun of you which is a plus.”

Gunn went on to post on Threads that “People have been making wayyyyyyyyyyy too much of this,” which is pretty rich, considering how he continues to draw attention to the fact that, no, we still don’t know who Adria Arjona is playing in Man Of Tomorrow for some presumably important reason. Setting aside the question of whether it might benefit DC Studios to lift the veil on that role during a time when rocky news appears to be its prevailing headache, the mystery endures. Unless the braintrust at DC Studios finally unclenches and just tells us what’s what already, we’ll have to wait to go “oh, okay” when they reveal who Arjona’s playing when Man Of Tomorrow hits theaters on July 9, 2027.