Waller, Peacemaker spinoff series by DC studios features Viola Davis
Amanda Waller is out in the game.
That Waller, the spinoff of their Suicide Squad HBO Max series Peacemaker, was one of the first TV shows they'll be hatching under their new DC world, Chapter One, "Gods and Monsters," was disclosed by DC co-Chairmen and CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran was hardly a surprise.
The protagonist of the show is the political and erratic Amanda Waller (Oscar winner Viola Davis), a senior government official and the director of ARGUS.
In her effort to put together a group of disposable metahumans who would be deployed to carry out secret operations against serious threats, she created the Suicide Squad.
Gunn and Safran revealed that Doom Patrol creator Jeremy Carver will collaborate with Watchmen EP Christal Henry on writing and executive producing Waller, this news was already public knowledge.
“We’re using the same actors; this is a continuation of Peacemaker,” Gunn told the press in the unveiling of his DCU Chapter One. “I’m working on Superman, so we can’t do PeacemakersSeason 2. We’re working on Waller in between.”
While none of the planned movies, such as the gritty Batman & Robin film The Brave and the Bold, are rated R, the TV show may skew more toward adult content.
The animated Creature Commandos, written by Gunn, the True Detective-like Lanterns, Paradise Lost, an all-female Game of Thrones-style series set on Wonder Woman's island home of Themyscira, and Booster Gold, which follows a loser guy from the future who returns to the present and poses as a superhero, were among the other TV series announced as part of the DCU Chapter One.