As Creature Commandos prepares to kick off James Gunn’s DCU, its showrunner says he’s ‘thrilled’ to be leading the charge ahead of the next Superman movie

• Creature Commandos‘ showrunner Dean Lorey says he is “excited” to be helming the DCU’s first-ever undertaking
• The grownup animated sequence arrives seven months earlier than James Gunn’s Superman film flies into theaters
• Lorey believes Gunn and Peter Safran “care deeply” in regards to the cinematic universe they’re creating

Creature Commandos‘ showrunner has admitted he is “thrilled” to be overseeing the primary undertaking in James Gunn and Peter Safran’s rebooted DC Cinematic Universe (DCU).

Talking solely to TechRadar, Dean Lorey, who’s additionally one of many Max sequence’ govt producers, stated he wasn’t anxious about making certain the DCU will get off to the very best begin. As a substitute, Lorey views Creature Commandos as the primary of many “thrilling” initiatives which are in works below the steerage of Gunn and his fellow DC Studios chief Peter Safran.

When Gunn announced the DCU’s first 11 films and TV shows in January 2023, many individuals anticipated the previous Marvel writer-director to steer off with a tentpole film starring one in all DC’s most iconic heroes like Superman or Batman. Cue many shocked appears, then, when Creature Commandos was formally revealed as the primary DCU undertaking that may be launched.

Given the sharp decline in fan sentiment and engagement in the direction of the DCU’s predecessor, aka the now-defunct DC Prolonged Universe (DCEU), it is an enchanting transfer for a TV present to spearhead model 2.0 of Warner Bros’ superhero-based cinematic universe. The truth that Creature Commandos stars a greater diversity of supervillains and anti-heroes, a few of whom could also be thought-about B-tier characters by DC diehards and informal viewers alike, makes it all of the extra curious that the R-rated present is on the forefront of DCU Chapter One‘s introduced initiatives.