Peacemaker Shares A Lot Of Its DNA With Another James Gunn Project
James Gunn is a director with a particular style, whose hallmarks survive throughout every project he takes on. With his new show Peacemaker, longtime fans are feeling a bit of nostalgia for the director's 2010 indie action drama Super.
Gunn is currently among the most beloved directors in the industry, but just a few years ago, he was known for low-budget grindhouse-style horror and action films packed with irreverent jokes and gore. Now he does basically the same thing, but with a way bigger budget and the occasional PG-13 rated MCU feature.
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Super is Gunn's second project as director, after 2006's Slither. The film centers around Frank Darbo, portrayed by The Office star Rainn Wilson, a fry cook whose simple life is shattered when his beloved wife suddenly leaves him. Beset with grief and deprived of the light of his life, Darbo feels lost, but a message from an unusual source leads him to seek justice by becoming a superhero. Darbo does not have any powers, nor any particular skill-set, but some comic book research leads him to create an alter-ego and a dynamic red costume.
As The Crimson Bolt, Darbo begins violently assaulting criminals with a pipe wrench, which leads to the public almost immediately branding him a sociopath. As he brutalizes criminals, he works his way towards the larger quest of freeing his wife from the drug dealer she ran away with. He acquires a completely unwanted sidekick, gets in way over his head, and turns to firearms to solve his problems.
It's a mostly grounded, extremely violent, morally questionable story about a powerless anti-hero murdering whoever comes in the way of his beliefs. Add a morbid and unique sense of humor and the description
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