⚡️ James Gunn’s First DCU Project Arrives

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It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… a group of monsters stopping international crises at the behest of the American government? The highly anticipated DC Universe, James Gunn and Peter Safran’s attempt to reboot the superhero franchise, will truly begin with Gunn’s Superman, which feels like a natural starting point — the Man of Steel, after all, is the very first superhero. But the DCU is getting off to a much more unlikely start with a show about a group of inhuman supervillains forcibly compelled by Amanda Waller (Viola Davis, reprising her role from The Suicide Squad) to work off-the-books.

Creature Commandos, created and written by James Gunn, is the first official DCU project, preceding Superman by nearly a year. So, does it set the tone for the much-anticipated DCU? Not really.

“It's one of many tones,” executive producer and showrunner Dean Lorey tells Inverse. “But it's a really good reflection of what James does great. It's got a lot of action. It's got a lot of heart and comedy. So it's a nice mix of all those things [that] will inform other projects, but they'll tonally be very different.”

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Stranger Things has been a Netflix institution for almost a decade, meaning the story has only grown bigger and bigger. What started as a small-town Stephen King tribute has morphed into one of Netflix’s biggest hits, and the Hawkins gang is now saving the world over and over again. It’s all leading to the fifth and final season, slated for release next year, three years after the previous season.

With that much buildup, fans are understandably a bit nervous about how this series, known for upping the ante every time, will pull off a truly final adventure. Will it be able to wrap up the stories of the characters who have grown up before our very eyes? Thankfully, one of the series’ stars has words of reassurance for fans, promising Stranger Things will find a way to stick the landing.

In conversation with Inverse for his upcoming role in the DCU show Creature Commandos, Stranger Things star David Harbour gushes about what’s coming ahead in the show’s final season. “It's going to be huge,” he says. “We've been shooting it for a long time. We're tying up all the threads that we've laid, all the pipe that we've laid throughout 10 years of work, and they're really doing it on a grand scale.”

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