James Gunn Teases How ‘Creature Commandos’ & DCU Will Be Better than ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ & MCU

James Gunn was fired by Marvel Studios several years ago after some offensive tweets that included pedophilia and rape “jokes” resurfaced. The announcements shocked the fandom considering that Gunn was highly successful in bringing C-list characters to the MCU and making a successful franchise of movies around them.

The latest installment in the ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ franchise was released last year and was a success. This also marked the true end of Gunn’s MCU career and taking over the reigns of DC Studios as Co-CEO along with Peter Safran.

Gunn now has a gargantuan task ahead of him, build a new cinematic universe from scratch and once again he is starting with ‘Creature Commandos’ a C-list characters that are bound to get their own animated series this December. ‘Creature Commandos’ is technically the start of the DCU, but both Safran and Gunn consider ‘Superman’ – an upcoming live-action movie focused on Man of Steel as the true start of the DCU.

Now Gunn recently sat down with Entertainment Weekly and discussed why DCU and ‘Creature Commandos’ will be better than his work with MCU.

I’m used to dealing with oddballs and irregular types and weirdos. That’s what Guardians is, and Creature Commandos is kind of like Guardians without the sentimentality. The Guardians are all really good characters at their heart, and that just isn’t necessarily the case with the creatures.

Gunn also talked about the characters that fans will meet with the upcoming installment, teasing diversity in characterization:

Part of the fun for me was taking some of the basics of Mary Shelley’s story and bringing them into this story about the spurned relationship between the Bride and Frankenstein. Frankenstein is this incredibly well-spoken intellectual but is still driven by his rage and his anger and his inability to really be a human being, and the inability for the one that he loves not loving him back. That’s what drives him. […]There’s an innocence to G.I. Robot that I didn’t quite see until Sean stepped into the booth and started creating this character. His choices for G.I. Robot give the character this sweet, mechanic innocence. He’s got this very sad history from World War II. The only time I think he felt at home was with the soldiers that he served with in DC’s alternate history of World War II, where metahumans were involved.

The director also confirmed once again that the ‘Superman’ will be a true taste of what DCU will be about:

Superman is the true start of everything, it’s a humongous epic. This is a way for people to just take a little nibble and see what it tastes like, there are a ton of fun references to other DC stuff, a bunch of hints for things that are coming. So I think it’s just an extraordinarily fun way to start.

‘Creature Commandos’ premieres on Max on December 5. Have something to add? Let us know in the comments below!

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