Jame Gunn and Peter Safran Are Out as DC Studios CEOs
After four years, James Gunn and Peter Safran are out as the heads of DC Studios.
The surprising announcement was made today by Warner Bros., who also announced that they will be replaced by former Marvel producer Jeremy Latcham, who will become DC’s president and chief creative officer.
While the news comes shortly after Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. studio, it also comes with Gunn and Safran still working on their next big DC movie, Man of Tomorrow, the sequel to Gunn’s own Superman movie of 2025. That film is scheduled to open in theaters next summer.
It also comes after they just turned Clayface from an obscure Batman villain into a solid box-office hit. The Clayface movie, just the third film from Gunn and Safran’s DC Studios, has grossed over $100 million worldwide
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Here was Gunn and Safran’s statement on the news:
Four years ago, we set out to unite DC under one creative vision. In that time, we helped restore ‘Superman’ to the heart of DC, while opening new doors and telling new stories in film and television with ‘Peacemaker,’ ‘Creature Commandos,’ ‘Lanterns’ and ‘Clayface. We’re immensely proud of the team that turned that ambition into something real, including the actors, crews and executives we had the opportunity to collaborate with. We’ve shared a creative history with Jeremy going back to Marvel, and we’re eager to see the perspective he brings to DC’s next chapter. We’re excited to return to what drew us to this job in the first place, which is telling the stories we love, including the next chapter of Clark and Lex’s journey in Man of Tomorrow.
Jeremy Latcham’s credits include serving as associate producer on Iron Man, co-producer on Iron Man 2, and executive producer of The Avengers and Gunn’s own Guardians of the Galaxy.
His last production for Marvel was 2017’s Spider-Man: Homecoming. Since then he’s produced the films Bad Times at the El Royale, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, and the Nate Bargatze comedy The Breadwinner.
