‘Peacemaker’ Season 2’s Red Band Trailer Is Ready to Drop Bombs

Call it a crisis of superhero faith in himself; DC Studios’ Peacemaker (John Cena) is back with a big bombshell of a secret. And no, it’s not that there’s a new theme song or dance—we already knew that.

It turns out another pocket dimension really does exist, and it happens to be located in Peacemaker’s daddy’s room. When this piece of information gets out, none other than Rick Flagg Sr. (Frank Grillo) uses it as an excuse to finally exact revenge on the man who killed his son—no matter how much he’s changed since The Suicide Squad. With the option to literally peace out into another timeline, Chris considers taking on his Peacemaker mantle in a better world for him, one that doesn’t want him dead, but that would mean leaving behind his friends.

Watch the red-band trailer below, complete with an intro from James Gunn and John Cena, that’s full of fucks to give and lots of nudity during Chris’ messy era post season one. Suffice to say, if you’re browsing at work—you’ve been warned.

Recently at SDCC 2025, we uncovered that the timeline that Peacemaker exists in is very likely deteriorating. Harcourt (Jennifer Holland) and friends have hit a new low since Waller blacklisted them, so their world is falling apart in so many ways. Thankfully in this trailer Eagly appears to be ok and hopefully swoops in to raise the spirits of the 11th Street Kids. Will Peacemaker let his reckoning come and stay with his band of misfits? Or will he run off into Superman’s more idealistic world in the new DCU?

The answers will arrive on August 21, when Peacemaker returns to HBO Max with a whole lot of explaining to do.

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