Peacemaker Cameo Extends James Gunn's Casting Record (Not Nathan Fillion)
James Gunn’s latest project Peacemaker on HBO Max has extended one of the director's casting records, and not the most famous one he's known for — his work with Nathan Fillion. The Suicide Squad director hasn't called Fillion back for Peacemaker (though there is still time since Fillion's TDK is known to still be alive), but he did rehire an even more prolific collaborator in a secret cameo in episode 5, «Monkey Dory»: his best friend Stephen Blackehart
Working with the same actors is a mark of Gunn’s projects. He’s especially known for collaborating repeatedly with Nathan Fillion and Michael Rooker. He first worked with Fillion in a black comedy sci-fi film called Slither, which also starred Elizabeth Banks. From there, Fillion has been in every one of James Gunn's films, and can also be seen in some of the television series Gunn’s been involved with. Rooker is similar in that their first collaboration together was Slither, and he has since been added alongside Fillion to Gunn’s go-to guys for his directed films. He has yet to appear in a television series by Gunn, but only time will tell if this remains true.
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Peacemaker’s cameo for Blackehart as Charlie the Gorilla makes him by far Gunn's most frequent collaborator, having first appeared way back in Gunn’s very first film, Tromeo and Juliet unlike Fillion and Rooker. Admittedly, Gunn wrote the script for the film but didn’t direct it, but even when Gunn's role has been as a producer, he has almost always found a role for Blackehart. The actor has collaborated with Gunn in twelve different projects, including Peacemaker. He has appeared in all of Gunn’s television projects so far, including the
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