The new cinematic world of DC Studios will debut next year with Superman, but it will come to television much sooner with Creature Commandos. WB and creator James Gunn have been gradually unveiling the animated series, and you know they couldn’t have a trailer to premiere at New York Comic-Con.
If you enjoyed Gunn’s film about Suicide Squad a few years ago, you’ll likely enjoy Creature Commandos. After the events of that movie and Peacemaker, Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) returns in the first season to her old tricks of assembling the black ops team to carry out high-risk missions on behalf of the United States government. Instead of relying on B and C-list villains to get the job done, she’s thinking darker: monsters, scientific experiments, and other non-humans imprisoned at Belle Reve penitentiary.
For clarification, the elite team includes two Frankensteins – the Bride (Indira Varma) and her undead lover Eric (David Harbour) – military robot G.I. Robot (Sean Gunn, who also voiced the returning anti-hero Harvey Dent Jr.), the radioactive walking corpse Doctor Phosphorous (Alan Tudyk), aquatic scientist Dr. Nina Mazursky (Zawe Ashton), and leader Rick Flag Sr. (Frank Grillo). Like the Suicide Squad, the Commandos have bombs in their heads to compel them to comply, sending them to clash with Cersei (Anya Chalotra), deal with their cases of employment, and save the world the only way they know how: violently in a cartoonish fashion.
Also starring Steve Agee and Maria Bello. Creature Commandos arrives on Max with weekly episodes starting on December 5, with the final episode expected to air on January 16.
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