"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."
Creature Commandos occupies a strange place between the DCU and the old DC Extended Universe, spearheaded by Zack Snyder. Creature Commandos' team of misfit monsters is led by Rick Flag Sr. (Frank Grillo), who alludes to his son, Rick Flag Jr. (Joel Kinnaman in both Suicide Squad movies), having recently died, which happens during the technically non-canon events of The Suicide Squad.
So what's canon and what isn't? Gunn has spoken about picking and choosing what to bring over from the DCEU, including Davis' Waller and various Peacemaker characters, but everything else is "different man.
Creature Commandos, created and written by James Gunn, is the first official DCU project, preceding by nearly a year. So, does it set the tone for the much-anticipated DCU? Not really.
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