James Gunn’s new DC universe will finally explain what’s up with Weasel
James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is meant to be his last outing with the batch of cosmic Marvel misfits he introduced in 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy, but it may not be the characters’ final story — at least if you trust the post-credits scenes. It also won’t be his last time working with his brother, Sean Gunn, who plays the space pirate Kraglin (the one who inherited Yondu’s flying whistle-controlled arrow) and provides the on-set body performance for Rocket Raccoon, who’s voiced by Bradley Cooper. The Gunns are already working together on their next project — Creature Commandos, the animated series that will kick off James Gunn’s new DC Universe franchise lineup.
“I’m very excited about Creature Commandos,” Sean told Polygon in a recent interview. “I love the scripts. I’m about halfway through recording my part of it. I played two roles again. James loves to give me two roles in things, which, I’m not going to complain.”
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Creature Commandos, which James is writing, is yet another misfits team-up story in the same continuum as his 2021 movie The Suicide Squad, its TV sequel Peacemaker, and the planned series Waller, which is set to follow the further adventures of Amanda Waller (played by Viola Davis), the controlling agent behind the Suicide Squad’s various incarnations. But unlike all those franchise installments, Creature Commandos will be animated, and will send various monstrous DC characters on missions together, once again under Amanda Waller’s command. Gunn will play Weasel, as he did in The Suicide Squad, and another new character: G.I. Robot.
“[G.I. Robot] who is really just a robot with only one raison d’etre, which is to kill Nazis,” Gunn says. “He hates Nazis. Which… magnificent! Who
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