Creature Commandos star Sean Gunn explains why the first DCU TV show will ‘feel very different’ from Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy films
- Creature commands star Sean Gunn has revealed how it differs from The Guardians of the Galaxy movies
- Gunn, who played Kraglin in those Marvel films, will play two characters in the upcoming DCU TV show
- He says Creature commands will “feel very different” from the James Gunn-directed MCU films
One of Creature commands‘ voice actors don’t think the upcoming DC Cinematic Universe (DCU) TV series can compare to it The Guardians of the Galaxy (GoTG) movies.
Well, not completely anyway. I previously spoke exclusively to TechRadar Creature commands to be released on December 5, Sean Gunn suggested that there are a few key differences between the groups of ragtag misfits brought together by chance.
Since then Creature commands was announced as part of DCU Chapter One in January 2023, people have routinely compared one property to another for a myriad of reasons. Did James Gunn, Sean’s brother and new co-chief of DC Studios, play a role in bringing the duo to life? Yes. Do they have a cast of super-powered eccentrics who are lost and alone? Double yes. And are they tasked with saving the world and/or universe from a potentially cataclysmic event? Triple yes.
However, for Sean Gunn, who played Kraglin and was in all three of Rocket Raccoon’s mocap artists GotG movies, that’s where the similarities end. The former Marvel actor, who voices GI Robot and Weasel in this DCU Chapter One show, suggested that the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films actually have less in common with Creature commands than people think, and that the latter is more similar to that of 2021 The suicide squad film – the first film James Gunn directed for DC.
“It’s interesting because, despite all the similarities, it [Creature Commandos] feels very different to me,” Gunn told me. ‘All the characters in Guards – they are really good people or individuals, whether they are raccoons or sentient trees. They are kind-hearted and find the strength to be heroic.
“The Creature Commandos are not. They have their individual stories and some are benign, but some are definitely not. They’re all trying to survive in a world that doesn’t accept them and that part of it [the story] is what feels very different. There isn’t the camaraderie that there is in Guardians – they’re just forced together [Viola Davis’] Amanda Waller and was forced to go on this mission that they might not return from.”
‘I don’t know what went into choosing these characters’
Like The Guardians of the Galaxy, the Creature Commandos lineup has been chopped and changed throughout DC Comics’ history. Since the team’s debut in November 1980, the eponymous supergroup has had about twenty different antiheroes and supervillains. Some characters from Max’s animated film, such as Doctor Phosphorus and Weasel, were never even part of the film. the group in literature. So that figure of about 20 will only grow once Creature commands debuts on one of the world’s top streaming services.
So how did the show’s creators end up with the lineup of humans and super-powered individuals on the R-rated show? According to showrunner and executive producer Dean Lorey, the series’ predominantly metahuman roster was determined by a key member of the DC Studios creative team.
“That’s probably a question for James Gunn, because he wrote the show,” Lorey told me with a chuckle during another exclusive conversation. “So I don’t know what went into his specific choice of those characters.
“But I know for all of us it was really fun to be able to pay tribute to classic horror movie characters like Frankenstein’s Monster and the Bride of Frankenstein. So a lot of it was trying to infuse the show with those mythological figures, as well as an Eastern European look and feel, in terms of the art style and palette.”
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