Gunn Just Confirmed Peacemaker S2 Is All About Pocket Universes

Tried to make breakfast this morning but got distracted watching a video about how penguins huddle for warmth and now it's almost noon and I'm eating cereal with a fork because all my spoons are in the dishwasher that I haven't run for three days. The cereal is stale. The milk might be yogurt at this point. This is fine.

Anyway, let's talk about how James Gunn is building pocket universes while I can't even build a functioning morning routine.

According to Entertainment Weekly, James Gunn just casually dropped that the ENTIRE second season of Peacemaker "revolves around" the pocket universe tech from Superman.

Not "features." Not "includes." REVOLVES AROUND.

You know what else revolves? My head, trying to process this information. Gunn says it's "more akin to Philip Roth's The Counterlife" than Spider-Man: No Way Home. Sir, I haven't read Philip Roth because I'm too busy doom-scrolling and eating cheese directly from the package at 3 AM, but sure, literary references, love that for you.

He describes it as "a very simple, simple story about Chris Smith's relationship to this one other world." Simple. SIMPLE. This man has John Cena fighting interdimensional threats and calls it simple. I can't even maintain a simple relationship with my houseplants. They're all dead. Every single one.

The kicker? Lex's pocket universe tech is "much jankier" than Peacemaker's version. So we're getting premium multiverse content for a character who wears a toilet bowl helmet. Make it make sense.

Per CBS Morning via Fangoria, Gunn called Clayface "a complete horror film." Not superhero-horror. Not action-horror. COMPLETE HORROR.

Mike Flanagan wrote it. James Watkins (Speak No Evil, Eden Lake) is directing. Tom Rhys Harries plays a B-movie actor who injects himself with mystery goo to stay relevant and becomes sentient Play-Doh. This is basically what happens when you use too much retinol, except worse.

Release date: September 11, 2026. Yes, that September 11. Someone in scheduling has balls of steel or zero awareness. Possibly both.

Gunn says there's "not a company style" and artists will "bring their own sense to it." Translation: We're throwing s*** at the wall and seeing what traumatizes audiences most effectively. I respect it.

Bloomberg reports Toho is "considering" a Shin Godzilla sequel. Considering. CONSIDERING.

It's been NINE YEARS since the first one. My entire personality has changed seventeen times since 2016. I've had three different favorite colors. Four career crises. One existential breakdown per year, minimum.

"A deal has yet to be made" is the most ominous phrase in Hollywood. That's like saying "we're thinking about maybe possibly perhaps doing something eventually." Just say no. Break my heart cleanly. Don't leave me in sequel purgatory with my emotional support Godzilla plushie.

Nicole Kidman posted a picture of her and Sandra Bullock hugging on the set of Practical Magic 2. Outside. In daylight. Like normal people who aren't cursed by ancient family hexes.

That's it. That's the entire update. Two grown women embracing outdoors. No cauldrons visible. No midnight margaritas in frame. Just a hug that somehow has more emotional weight than my entire therapy journey.

This is peak 2025 movie marketing: "Here's a blurry photo of people you loved in 1998. No context. No release date. You're crying now." And you know what? It's working. I'm already planning my Practical Magic rewatch while eating chocolate cake for dinner because I'm an adult and Sally Owens can't judge me.

Bloody-Disgusting has exclusive footage of Brandon Routh dodging sentient slime in "Ick," Joseph Kahn's "pop punk creature feature."

The Ick has been growing in this town for TWO DECADES and everyone's just... chill about it? That's literally how I treat my problems. "Oh, that growing mass of anxiety in the corner? Yeah, it's been there since 2003. We're cool."

The movie has a Paramore and Blink-182 soundtrack because apparently we're weaponizing millennial nostalgia now. It's in select theaters July 24, expanding July 27-29. Plan your emotional regression accordingly.