Peacemaker's new opening credits was "the only thing" James Gunn was "nervous" about in season 2: "You can't one-up the first season"

John Cena as Peacemaker, Jennifer Holland as Harcourt, Eagly and more pose in the Peacemaker opening title sequence — (Image credit: Warner Bros/HBO Max)

Peacemaker exploded onto our screens back in 2022 and immediately captured audience attention with its surreal opening dance, backed by Wig Wam's earworm 'Do You Wanna Taste It'.

One viral sensation later and James Gunn is tasked with doing it all over again in Peacemaker season 2. Here, Foxy Shazam's 'Oh Lord' is the soundtrack to the sequence, which sees John Cena's Peacemaker again strut his stuff, alongside faces new and old – and it was certainly worth the three-year wait.

Gunn continues, "So they watched that first episode of Peacemaker, and all of a sudden there's a dance sequence and people are like, 'What is going on? This is the most insane thing I've ever seen.' You can never recapture that. I have to recapture that within the episodes themselves. And I think the way we capture that… is with the emotional depth of the season, and the romance and all of that."

But what about the process of picking the right song? Gunn has already proven to be a playlist savant, reviving long-forgotten-about bands and artists to help bolster his comic book movies and shows. From Guardians of the Galaxy's poppy soundtrack to Superman's use of 'Punkrocker', you're never far from a toe-tapping track when Gunn is at the wheel. The process this time, though, was a far-and-wide search for the right song.

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