Within the eyes of followers, DC and Marvel is perhaps bitter rivals, however to actors and administrators, they’re simply new and completely different alternatives to inform tales. One star who has appeared in each the MCU and the just lately rebooted DCU is Frank Grillo. The actor has been part of the MCU for over a decade, debuting in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and helped to kickstart the DCU as Rick Flag Sr. in Creature Commandos. Dad and mom aren’t imagined to have a favourite baby. However Frank Grillo clearly by no means received that message, as he just lately revealed one main motive why James Gunn’s DCU is superior to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it in all probability will not come as a lot of a shock to followers of each franchises.
Frank Grillo just lately spoke to Folks to advertise the second season of Peacemaker, and he was requested about his previous tenure within the MCU and his new profession within the DC Universe. “It’s completely different,” Grillo stated of the filmmaking processes beneath the MCU and the DCU. “It’s not organized in the identical method.” Grillo formally stated goodbye to the MCU in 2016’s Captain America: Civil Warfare, when Crossbones was blown up by Wanda Maximoff. The actor now performs Rick Flag Sr. within the DCU, a task which first happened in Creature Commandos, and has since unfold to Superman and Peacemaker Season 2.
Having labored on a number of tasks for each franchises, Grillo actually prefers being beneath James Gunn’s management at DC. “[DC] is de facto like all of the scripts are in entrance of you and also you form of have an actual safe deal with on what’s occurring,” he defined. “And there’s nothing unsuitable with it, however [Marvel] was somewhat fly by the seat of your pants.” Frank Grillo famous that the MCU has clearly “performed very effectively,” however he personally discovered Marvel’s improvement course of a “little scary,” particularly when he’d movie a scene with out having learn a single script.
Frank Grillo May Have a Lengthy Future within the DCU
Frank Grillo’s Rick Flag Sr. is extra necessary to the DCU than followers may need realized. Following 2021’s The Suicide Squad, which (one way or the other) each is and is not canon on the similar time, Flag Sr. was launched in Creature Commandos following the demise of his son, Rick Flag Jr. (Joel Kinnaman). Flag’s mission for vengeance has carried over into Superman and Peacemaker Season 2, with John Cena’s eponymous “hero” being liable for Jr.’s demise in The Suicide Squad.
Rick Flag Sr. won’t be the best-known character from DC Comics, however his a number of appearances within the DCU have already had a huge impact on the rebooted franchise. When Gunn and Peter Safran took over DC Studios in 2023, the previous revealed that characters would bounce between live-action and animated tasks. Rick Flag Sr. is the primary character to take action within the DCU, and the transition has been seamless. In consequence, this has opened the door for numerous different DCU characters to bounce between animation and live-action sooner or later.
Peacemaker
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January 13, 2022
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HBO Max, Max
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Christopher Smith / Peacemaker
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Danielle Brooks
Leota Adebayo
