Max debuted unique footage from Peacemaker Season 2 throughout a brand new promotional trailer highlighting upcoming releases. The teaser featured key motion moments, main character developments, and the return of John Cena as Christopher Smith, providing a primary glimpse on the subsequent chapter of the DCU sequence. The brand new season premieres on August 21, 2025. The footage additionally teased scenes from The Final of Us.
Peacemaker and The Final of Us scenes proven in new Max trailer for 2025
John Cena’s Peacemaker seems in new Season 2 footage from a Max trailer, exhibiting Christopher Smith amid fiery destruction. Within the temporary clip, Smith provides a thumbs up whereas surrounded by chaos and later jumps by way of a window of a burning constructing. Leota Adebayo (performed by Danielle Brooks) tells him, “You’re a superhero now.”
James Gunn confirmed that Season 2 will probably be canon inside the new DC Universe (DCU), though not all of Season 1 is included. Gunn acknowledged to IGN, “The reality is sort of all of Peacemaker is canon excluding Justice League, which we are going to type of cope with within the subsequent season of Peacemaker.”
He added, “In Creature Commandos, you’ll hear them discuss issues that occurred in [The] Suicide Squad or Peacemaker. Properly then, these issues mechanically turn out to be canon.” Gunn confirmed that the present will retcon the comedic Justice League cameo from Season 1’s finale.
Set pictures revealed a mural that options Peacemaker, his father within the White Dragon go well with, and a 3rd character believed to be his deceased brother, Keith. Robert Patrick will return as Augee Smith, regardless of the character’s demise in Season 1.
The sequence continues the story of Christopher Smith following 2021’s The Suicide Squad. Based on the official Season 1 synopsis, it follows “a compellingly vainglorious man who believes in peace at any value, regardless of how many individuals he has to kill to get it.” Gunn’s feedback counsel the present’s multiverse components will permit Season 2 to shift into a brand new DCU continuity whereas referencing previous occasions.
Initially reported by Anubhav Chaudhry on SuperHeroHype.