James Gunn Teases Something Fishy in His DC Universe

Fans person a wide thought astir what James Gunn has successful store for astir of the large DC characters. The co-president of the workplace is himself writing and directing Superman. Beyond that a Batman movie is successful the works, a Green Lantern show, a Supergirl movie, and others. Things are a small little clear, however, for characters with much caller films similar The Flash, Wonder Woman, and Aquaman. One of those conscionable got a tantalizing tease though… oregon did he?

Gunn took to societal media Thursday to station a precise fishy awesome on with the “Merman” emoji. Check it out.

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— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) August 15, 2024

Now, your archetypal instinct mightiness beryllium to shriek “Aquaman” and possibly that’s accurate. But this is besides the logo (inverted, but still) for a DC radical called ARGUS which stands for “Advanced Research Group Uniting Super-Humans.” Introduced successful the comics during the New 52 epoch successful 2012, it’s led by Amanda Waller and is the U.S. Government’s section for superhero-related taskforces–including anterior groups similar Waller’s absorption of Taskforce X, a.ka. the Suicide Squad, and different supergroups. ARGUS  oddly, fits rather nicely into Gunn’s wide plans. One of the shows connected DC’s existent slate is an Amanda Waller show, pb by Suicide Squad‘s Viola Davis–though determination hasn’t been immoderate immense quality connected it successful a while–and we cognize she’ll look successful animated signifier to assistance found Taskforce M successful the animated bid Creature Commandos. So this could beryllium teasing that direction.

Also, this is simply a carnal representation Gunn took a photograph of. It’s connected a set. And, since Gunn finished filming Superman a fewer weeks agone and has since moved implicit to Peacemaker, we are astir definite this is simply a tease from Peacemaker play 2 which volition beryllium straight tied into the Gunn and Peter Safran DC Universe.

Does Aquaman play a relation though? Why the emoji? We don’t know. But we bash cognize that Jason Momoa’s Aquaman had a little cameo successful play 1 of Peacemaker truthful that poses a spot of an contented successful presumption of who is playing the relation successful this universe. Our guess, though, is that we’ll person to hold until Peacemaker play two, sometime successful 2025, to find out.

Next up for DC is The Penguin, a Max amusement that is being overseen by Gunn and Safran but is not portion of their universe. It’s portion of the Batman Epic Crime Saga which is being tally by Matt Reeves based connected his Robert Pattinson Batman. Don’t confuse that, though, with The Brave and the Bold, a caller Batman that volition nexus up with Gunn’s universe. No day connected that yet but Gunn’ beingness volition commencement aboriginal this twelvemonth with the aforementioned Creature Commandos (also connected Max), and past yet marque the leap to the large surface with Superman successful July of 2025.

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