Following a shocking return to the WWE at WrestleMania 40, John Cena provided a new update regarding the production for Peacemaker Season 2. Cena appeared on the Pat McAfee Show to discuss the outcome of the biggest wrestling event of the year and also revealed that the second season of the hit HBO series is expected to film until “just about Christmas.” This news comes not long after James Gunn revealed that Peacemaker Season 2 will begin filing in May of this year.

Peacemaker first appeared in The Suicide Squad, Gunn‘s reboot of Amanda Waller’s (Viola Davis) band of misfit villains who must work together to take down Starro. The character was an immediate hit and shortly thereafter appeared in a new TV series, which received widespread acclaim, currently sitting at a Certified Fresh rating of 94% from critics and a strong 89% from general audiences on Rotten Tomatoes. The Peacemaker series picks up after the events of The Suicide Squad when Christopher Smith (Cena) returns home and immediately joins the A.R.G.U.S. task force known as Project Butterfly. Together, Smith and his new team must destroy an alien race of butterflies who have assumed control of human hosts all over the world.

What’s Next for ‘Peacemaker’ and John Cena?

The most shocking part of this reveal from Cena is the timeline. We know Peacemaker Season 2 is gearing up to begin filming in May. But, if the series isn’t set to conclude production until around Christmas, as Cena says, this means filming is expected to go on for roughly seven to eight months. This is a far cry from Season 1, which was released exactly one year after filming began. Now that Gunn is the co-head of DC Studios, he has much more to manage —including the new DCU Superman movie starring David Corenswet — than he did during the production of Peacemaker Season 1. Production will likely take a little longer considering Gunn will be overseeing multiple projects at once.

via Collider