James Gunn and the cast of the animated series Creature Commandos appeared at New York Comic Con to unveil the first trailer for the upcoming Max series, promising a new DC Universe entry that is “something beyond what any of us expected”.
The voice cast members include Frank Grillo as Rick Flag Sr., David Harbour as Frankenstein, Zoë Chao as Nina Mazursky, Steve Agee as Economos, Maria Bakalova as Princess Ilana, Alan Tudyk as Dr. Phosphorus, and Sean Gunn as GI Robot and Weasel.
Gunn confirmed during the panel that the series will be “its own thing. Every single project out of DC Studios is going to be its own thing. We want this to be very different from what Superman is going to be when that comes out,” he said, pointing to Lanterns and Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow. “It’s a connected universe but we’re not imposing any overall aesthetic.”
Gunn also explained of the series: “It was written when I started as the CEO of DC Studios. I had talked to Max about creating something after Peacemaker did so well. I talked to Peter Girardi about creating an animated series. I like the Creature Commandos. I love monsters. I love Frankenstein, the story of Bride of Frankenstein. It seemed like the perfect thing to do,” he said.
Gunn jokes that the format of Creature Commandos was stolen from Lost. “The first episode is you see the team come together, but then every episode after that explores the backstory of one of these characters — not necessarily the origin, in some places, the origin — but just something from their past that we see about how they got to the place where they are today,” he said. “And we get to know these characters in a much more intimate way because of that. I think it’s a really fun way to get to know. You see that some of them are a lot better than maybe we think they are at the beginning of the series, and some of them are even worse.”
Linda Cardellini, Indira Varma, and Michael Rooker will also be among the voices appearing later in the series.
Watch the trailer below, streaming December 5th:
