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James Gunn Launches His New DCU with Clever "Creature Commandos" | TV/Streaming | Roger Ebert

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James Gunn kicks off his DCU revamp with an animated 'Creature Commandos' series, delivering a gory, gonzo, raunchy ride with a motley monster crew of misfits on a global mission to save the world.
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  • Gunn's new DCU starts by canonizing 'The Suicide Squad' and 'Peacemaker,' with A.R.G.U.S. director Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) assembling a team of super-powered prisoners for a high-stakes mission in Pokolistan.
  • The diverse 'Creature Commandos' team features a radioactive skeleton, a robot Nazi-killer, a talking weasel, an empathetic fish-woman, and a temperamental corpse bride haunted by her incel Frankenstein, each with a tragic backstory that Gunn explores with signature heart and humor.
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James Gunn, Peter Safran, Viola Davis, Rick Flag Sr. (Frank Grillo), Princess Ilana Rostovic (Maria Bakalova), Circe (Anya Chalotra), Doctor Phosphorus (Alan Tudyk), GI Robot (Sean Gunn), Weasel, Nina Mazursky (Zoë Chao), The Bride (Indira Varma), Frankenstein (David Harbour), A.R.G.U.S. (Advanced Research Group Uniting Super-Humans), The Sons of Themyscira, Creature Commandos, The Suicide Squad, Peacemaker, Captain Laserhawk, Invincible, X-Men '97
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