Peacemaker Star Wants A Polka-Dot Man Prequel Series
Peacemaker’s Steve Agee says he wants to team up with real-life best friend David Dastmalchian for a Polka-Dot Man prequel series. Agee, who has recently reprised his role as John Economos for the new HBO Max spinoff series, also provided the motion-capture performance for Sylvester Stallone’s King Shark in last year’s DCEU outing The Suicide Squad. With Peacemaker’s first three episodes dropping on HBO Max last week, fans are already clamoring for more of James Gunn’s hilarious take on the DC Universe.
Agee’s friend Dastmalchian, who is also known for playing Scott Lang’s friend Kurt in the MCU’s Ant-Man movies, is no stranger to comic-book roles. In addition to his work in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Dastmalchian has also appeared in 2008’s The Dark Knight, in both the Gotham and The Flash television series, and voiced both Calendar Man and Penguin in last year's Batman: The Long Halloween. In 2019, Dastmalchian was cast as Abner Krill (aka Polka-Dot Man) in The Suicide Squad, a character based on an obscure Batman villain who threw explosive polka-dots at people. Gunn would ultimately work his trademark magic to turn this bizarre, and otherwise unknown, DC character into a bonafide fan-favorite member of the new Task Force X.
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While Dastmalchian’s Polka-Dot Man was one of the many characters who did not survive to see the final credits in The Suicide Squad, Agee has suggested that he would love to see his character team up with Abner Krill for prequel spin-off series. Speaking with Looper, Agee suggested that aside from just wanting to work with Dastmalchian as a friend, he thought his character “was so deep and nuanced,” and he would
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