The credits of the DC Comics series “Peacemaker”, sequel to the film “The Suicide Squad” by James Gunn, is not to be missed under any circumstances. To the point of being considered by some as one of the best of all time!
After several months, the series is finally available in France via the Amazon Prime Video platform. Spin-off of The Suicide Squad acclaimed by critics and the American public, Peacemaker offers a cocktail of superheroes, comedy, uninhibited violence and permanent shift, thanks to the paw of its creator, screenwriter and director James Gunn.
The HBO Max show is also distinguished (and above all) by its credits (see video above). A dancing number where all the main and secondary characters, John Cena and his eagle Eagly in the lead, sway their hips on an improbable choreography on the track Do Ya Wanna Taste It of the hair metal band Wig Wam.
The sequence is seen again in each episode with the same pleasure, and we always discover a little additional detail, like this finale which lasts a few seconds too long or a Robert Patrick not quite in time (to the delight of his director, who had fun on social networks).
James Gunn – “I love seeing Robert Patrick off-time at the end of the dance.” Robert Patrick – “I suck.”
Entrusted to the choreographer Charissa Barton – at work for twenty-five years between cinema, stage and television -, the number, which she herself baptizes the “Peacemaker Groove”, mixes modern dance, movements inspired by old comics, from burlesque to Chaplin / Keaton and the style of the different characters in the series.
A bit as if “plasticine animation took on human form”perfectly sums up the actress Jennifer Holland in the making-of of the sequence.
Peacemaker: the making-of of the credits
Above all, as his partner Danielle Brooks points out, this famous credits in music and with offset the diversity of the program. “It’s really cool, because we are all so different. To see this choreography featuring so many different body types, ages or origins, it’s really great”.
According to James Gunn, who has a habit of integrating a dance number in all his works, the challenge was to create a credits “very very different from anything that has been done in television, and in the DC universe of course”. And already the best credits of the year, therefore.