Following the announcement that Frank Grillo has been cast as Rick Flag Sr in the DCU’s Creature Commandos animated series, the rest of the stacked cast have now been revealed. While there are some names that come as no surprise, and some returning players to the DCU, there are others who were probably not as expected.
As revealed by Collider, Grillo will be joined by Sean Gunn as Weasel and G.I. Robot, Maria Bakalova as Princess Ilana Rostovic, Indira Varma as The Bride, Zoe Chao as Nina Mazursky, Alan Tudyk as Dr. Phosphorus, David Harbour as Eric Frankenstein, Sean Gunn as G.I. Robot, with Steve Agee reprising his role as John Economos.
Of course, James Gunn has already made it clear that these actors will not only be portraying the characters in voice roles, but will also appear as their characters in any live action iterations that come in future. This raises many questions about where the characters could appear with in Gunn’s new DCU story, and there are obviously plenty of options with 25 projects reported to be in various stages of development.
The Creature Commandos collective will be a team who work under the command of Amanda Waller, very much like the Suicide Squad, and of course Viola Davis is set to make her return as Waller in her own solo series, but there is every chance that she will also have a role to play in the animated series as well.
Creature Commandos Will Be A Central Part of The DCU’s Gods And Monsters Story
While there is currently a lot of focus on who will be playing the new interpretations of Superman and Batman in the new DCU, Creature Commandos is a big piece of what Gunn and Peter Safran are planning with their huge undertaking of bringing success back to the comic book franchise. While animated shows never seem to get the same attention as live-action movies and TV shows in the DCU and MCU, Gunn’s plan to ensure that there is continuity across all mediums, with the same actors playing their roles in everything from TV to video games, that could change with Creature Commandos.
For now there is no date known when Creature Commandos will be released on the newly branded Max, but it is one of the projects that Gunn previously said was quite a way along when interacting with fans on Twitter. The group of “monsters” are not one of the best known in the DC canon, but that is something that most likely drew Gunn to the project in the first place. Having brought the Guardians of the Galaxy from relative obscurity to being one of the biggest properties within the Marvel Universe, and already dipped into the Suicide Squad’s collective, Creature Commandos could be given the same kind of treatment in the coming years.
Now, with the cast of the DCU’s seven part animated show revealed, we can only wait for the series to arrive on Max sometime in the future.
