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Warner Bros. revealed the first teaser trailer and release date for its upcoming series, Peacemaker, starring John Cena’s character from Suicide Squad, which will premiere, on HBO Max on January 13, 2022.

The announcement was made during the show’s DC FanDome panel, where producer Matt Miller said, “With the action and the spectacle and the emotion and the comedy, there’s also like this workplace comedy at the center of it, about all of these characters that come together. It’s like The Office as a superhero show.”

Here’s how HBO Max describes the series: “Peacemaker will explore the origins of the character that John Cena first portrayed in James Gunn’s 2021 film, The Suicide Squad – a compellingly vainglorious man who believes in peace at any cost, no matter how many people he has to kill to get it.”

Peacemaker originally seemed to have died in James Gunn’s Suicide Squad, following a shootout with Bloodsport, played by Idris Elba, but a post-credits scene showed Peacemaker having made it through and sent onto the next world-saving adventure.

According to producer Peter Safran, there will be plenty of absurdly funny moments in Season 1: “This is, I believe, the only show that has John Cena dancing for 4 minutes in his tighty-whities to The Choirboys.”

Peacemaker is set to release on HBO Max on January 13, 2022, with eight episodes, written by Gunn, who will also be directing some of the episodes. Gunn also directed five episodes of the eight episodes.

For everything Peacemaker, read about who exactly Cena’s character is in Suicide Squad and the upcoming spinoff. Or get all the info on Vigilante as he enters the DCEU!