James Gunn Reveals How That Big Peacemaker Cameo Scene Happened

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The following article contains spoilers for Peacemaker.

If there's one thing James Gunn loves to do in his movies and shows, it's subverting audiences' expectations. Well, that and get really weird with really obscure characters that approximately 7% of viewers realize are from the actual comics. Funnily enough, one particular moment in the last episode of Peacemaker season 1 featured some surprisingly not-obscure characters, which is certainly one way to subvert expectations. Way to keep things on-brand in the most on-brand way, Gunn.

After a season of John Cena's titular wannabe-hero trashing the iconic members of the Justice League at every turn, many viewers likely expected at least the brief silhouetted shot of them seen at the end of the season as a little joke. What many likely didn't expect was a full-on cameo from 2 of the actual Justice League actors, pulling off what is probably one of the funniest moments in the entire series. To his credit, it looks like not even Gunn himself expected it at first either.

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In an interview with Variety, Gunn discussed how he managed to get both Jason Momoa and Ezra Miller to reprise their roles as Aquaman and The Flash, respectively, for a surprise scene at the end of Peacemaker episode 8. «Um, you know, I didn't have a conversation,» Gunn said when asked how he negotiated the cameo with DC. «I just wrote it and gave them the scripts. I don't think they really realized what they had agreed to until they saw what I had shot, which was the Justice League there. And then I think the full weight of it and, you know, what does this mean for the DCU and all of that became huge pieces of conversation up to the