James Gunn answers question on why he's making Peacemaker, about a “jingoist, racist American hero”

TVLine

“Peacemaker has a lot of issues,” Gunn acknowledged at the TV press tour, “and I don’t sit down and say, ‘Well, I’ve got to make this character likable.’ I just sit down and try to make a character as fully fleshed as possible...One of the things though that made me want to tell the story of Peacemaker is that he has a lot to learn…. a lot to learn. And it wouldn’t take just one season of TV for him to learn that. But it is that ability to learn that he does have that for me makes him a little bit more likable. His blindspots in some places are pretty terrible, and in some places they’re just him being ignorant. And I think that’s an important distinction to make.”