James Gunn, co-head of Warner Brothers’ DC Studios, has announced the voice cast for the upcoming animated series Creature Commandos. The series will be the first project from the reorganized Warners unit and the first on the slate of films and television series which will serve to relaunch an interconnected cinematic universe based on DC Comics characters.
The actors bring vocal life to the squad as announced by Gunn on Twitter are –
- Frank Grillo as Rick Flag Sr.
- David Harbour as Frankenstein
- Indira Varma as the Bride
- Alan Tudyk as Dr. Phosphorous
- Maria Bakalova as Ilana Rostovic
- Sean Gunn as GI Robot & Weasel
- Zoe Chao as Nina Mazursky
- Steve Agee as John Economos
When Gunn and co-chief Peter Safran unveiled the first part of their production slate last January, they stated that characters would cross over between animated and live action projects and so the animated projects would need to be cast with actors who could handle performing the roles in live action. And a quick look at the cast here shows Gunn following through on that mandate.
In the comics, the Creature Commandoes were a group that was formed by the government out of monsters to fight Nazis in World War Two. (As you do.) This new iteration is set in modern times, and with the inclusion of Agee’s The Suicide Squad/ Peacemaker character suggests that ultimately this new version will be under the command of Amanda Waller, the black-ops spy master played by Viola Davis in a number of previous DC Cinematic Universe films.
The inclusion of Agee’s Economos and Sean Gunn’s Weasel, two characters already featured in live action in James Gunn’s 2021 The Suicide Squad, also implies that the slate of films being readied by Gunn and Safran is more of a soft reboot for the superhero franchise. As such, moving forward Gunn and the filmmakers he will be working with could be picking and choosing from what has come before to remain in continuity with the new films and what will be discarded.
There is no word as to when the seven-episode series will debut you streamer HBO Max, but it will air some time before Gunn’s feature film Superman: Legacy‘s July 11, 2025 release date.
