James Gunn Unsure If Green Arrow Exists In The DCU After "Peacemaker" Reference

What's your favorite DC universe? CW's Arrowverse? Zack Snyder's DCEU? Or James Gunn's new DCU?

The biggest question going into 'Peacemaker' season 2 is how it will fit the new DCU canon after cameos from the DCEU Justice League in the season 1 finale. While reports are that it will simply replace them with a previous season recap, there is also a reference to the Arrowverse when John Cena's Peacemaker talked about the Green Arrow: "That dude goes to Brony conventions dressed as the back half of Twilight Sparkle with a four-inch-wide b**thole drilled in the costume."

James Gunn talked this week about this exact issue on the 'Peacemaker' season 1 rewatch podcast: "I don't know. I'm not willing to say yet. We don't really know. We don't have a Green Arrow as part of our system right now. So maybe Green Arrow exists, maybe he doesn't, I don't know."

Green Arrow has been played by two actors, Justin Hartley in 'Smallville' and Stephen Amell in 'Arrow'. Last year, the 'Peacemaker' scene pissed off Amell: "That was a little unnecessary. I didn’t f***ing appreciate that at all. Okay. I am just going to come right out and say this. There was just such...between the movies and Peacemaker a little bit...our show was kind of treated like s**t. I get it, we’re on The CW, I get it, it’s TV."

"But I also get the fact that when people think about the most recent iteration of DC, they don’t think about the Snyder Cut - they think about the Arrowverse. We got c*****d on for years, and years, and years, and this just seemed excessive. I’m not actually mad, but I just remember hearing that and just being like, 'F*** those guys,' like seriously."

"I’m up here. I’m working just as hard as anyone else. Do you know how hard it is to play a superhero with no superpowers for 23 episodes a year? It’s really, really, really hard, and I’m not looking for a prize, but, like, maybe don’t s**t on our show. If I should be mad at anyone, it should be James Gunn for writing that in the first place. But John Cena could not be a nicer guy. It’s not a personal vendetta against Cena."

Who do you want to see play Green Arrow in DCU? Do you want to see Amell or Hartley return? Comment below with your thoughts.

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