If you haven't seen the series finale Peacemaker, we already warned you that we are going to make you spoilerSo maybe you should stop reading right here. But if you've seen it and wondered why certain famous actors haven't appeared in "that" ending (while others have), We tell you the reasons from the director himself. I have already warned enough, from here, we gut the last minutes of Peacemaker.
If you have followed the series of The peacemaker by HBO Max, starring John Cena, you will have seen that season finale with THE cameo par excellence.
In those moments, when everything is resolved and Peacemaker leaves the scene with Emilia in her arms and her bruised adventure companions, suddenly appears none other than The Justice League. Or part of it, specifically: Aquaman, Flash, Wonder Woman and Superman, who floats in the air.
Protected by the penumbra, we contemplate the silhouettes, but, as Peacemaker approaches them, and calls them idiots, rightly accusing them of being late, we see that, really, are Jason Momoa as Aquaman and Ezra Miller as Flash, reprising their roles in the film The Justice League by Zack Snyder.
However, the other two superheroes, Wonder Woman and Superman, they remain in the shadows and are two "body doubles" those who interpret them.
Why didn't Gal Gadot and Henry Cavill appear in the cameo?
James Gunn responds to why Gal Gadot and Henry Cavill don't appear in the end of Peacemaker
The creator of the series, James Gunn, gives the answer to the enigma in an interview with Variety when asked about if they ever asked Gadot or Cavill for the appearance in that season finale.
"Really I do not think so. Actually, I thought of it so it was just Jason (Momoa). Ezra Miller was more of an added incentive, because I found out that he was interested in doing it ».
So it seems that They didn't even ask Superman or Wonder Woman and that Gunn only thought about Aquaman speaking and, therefore, his face being seen.
However, one immediately realizes that, in addition to the absence of actors, there is also a notable absence of League superheroes. Specifically, batman and cyborg.
Regarding that, Gunn's response was more enigmatic, hesitating on the subject.
"You know, I don't know what I can... there are reasons for the absence, but I don't really know if I can say what those reasons are," Gunn explained. "It could have to do with future things," he clinches in the interview, to move on from the topic.
Actually, the thing is quite clear in those two cases.
Both Ben Affleck, who played Batman, and Ray Fisher, who played Cyborg, They have ended up not wanting to resume the characters for different reasons.
In Affleck's case, it's the sick of paper, accentuated by the reshoots de The Justice League in Snyder version, so, apparently, it will appear briefly in the movie of T and it is over. In Fisher's case, because he is still locked in the fight with Warner and DC over allegations of racism and unacceptable behavior by Joss Whedon, Geoff Johns and company.
That you already know what happens in these cases, that if you say something about the bad behavior of the powerful, the one that bounces out of there is you... As has happened to Fisher.
So there is the mystery explained by the mouth of the creator himself. Of course, Superman's body double is trying to take advantage of those seconds in the dark to postulate as the new Man of Steel. We don't think he succeeds, but the resemblance is unsettling.