Director James Gunn and producer Peter Safran will leave their posts as chief executives of the DC Studios film studio on 1 December. They will be replaced by producer Jeremy Latcham, reports The Hollywood Reporter.
Gunn and Safran have headed DC Studios since October 2022. They unveiled ambitious plans to relaunch the DC universe but managed to carry out only part of the project. The duo released three films (‘Superman’, ‘Supergirl’ and ‘Clayface’) and three series (‘The Penguin’, the second season of ‘Peacemaker’ and ‘Lanterns’).
Gunn and Safran’s departure is linked to the change of ownership at Warner Bros., which owns DC Studios. A month ago, Warner Bros. passed into the ownership of David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance (Ellison is the son of Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison). It is not known whether Gunn and Safran were forced out of DC Studios or decided to leave of their own accord.
Jeremy Latcham, who will succeed them, worked at rival Marvel Studios from 2004 to 2017. There he was involved in making ‘Iron Man’ and ‘The Avengers’. In addition, Latcham worked with Gunn on the first instalment of ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’, Marvel’s 2014 action comedy that made Gunn a first-rank Hollywood star.
