Last July at SDCC, the first teaser trailer for the highly anticipated Creature Commandos animated series, written and executive produced by James Gunn, was released, hinting that the series was set to premiere in December. Today it was announced that the seven-episode Max original adult animated series will premiere on Max on Thursday, December 5th, with one episode released each week thereafter until January 16th.
Creature Commando tracks down a secret team of imprisoned monsters assembled for a mission deemed too dangerous for humans. When all else fails… they’re the last, worst option.
Starring Steve Agee as Economos, Maria Bakalova as Princess Ilana, Anya Chalotra as Circe, Zoe Chao as Nina Mazursky, Frank Grillo as Rick Flagg Sr., Sean Gunn as GI Robot & Weasel, David Harbour as Frankenstein, Alan Tudyk as Dr. Phosphorus, Indira Varma as the Bride, and Viola Davis as Amanda Waller.
Creature Commandos is written and executive produced by James Gunn and is based on the DC characters and produced by DC Studios and Warner Bros. Animation. Additional executive producers include Peter Safran, Dean Lowry and Sam Register, with Rick Morales serving as supervising producer.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Gunn revealed some more details about the series.
“I’m used to dealing with oddballs and unusual types and weirdos. That’s what the Guardians are, and the Creature Commandos are like the Guardians without the sentimentality. The Guardians are all really good characters at heart, whereas the Creatures aren’t necessarily like that.”
Regarding this interpretation of Frankenstein’s monster:
“What was interesting to me was taking the basis of Mary Shelley’s story and putting it into this tale of a rejected relationship between a bride and Frankenstein. Frankenstein is an incredibly well-spoken intellectual, yet he is driven by anger and resentment, a sense of helplessness in not being human, of not being loved by the person he loves. That’s what drives him.”
On the GI Robot that his brother voiced:
“GI Robot has an innocence to him that I didn’t realize until Sean got in the booth and started creating this character. The choices Sean made for GI Robot give the character a loveable, mechanical innocence. The character has a very sad history in World War II. I think the only time he ever felt at home was with soldiers in DC’s alternate history of World War II, where metahumans were involved.”
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