Superman, Batman and the rest of the DC heroes are getting a new boss, yet again.
Skydance Motion Picture Group announced Monday that James Gunn and Peter Safran are stepping down as co-chief executives after four years leading DC Studios.
Although their first film leading the superhero factory, “Superman,” reached theaters only last year, their DC run has come to an abrupt end.
Gunn and Safran initially survived Skydance's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. The studio's merger with Paramount Pictures was finalized just as DC's “Clayface” was released.
However, it turns out Gunn and Safran aren't surviving the merger.
Instead, Skydance chairman and chief executive David Ellison is turning to Jeremy Latcham, a veteran of Marvel Studios, to steer DC.
Latcham was a leading executive for Marvel, including the first wave of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with “Iron Man” and “The Avengers.” He also worked with Gunn and Safran on their “Guardians of the Galaxy.”
The changeover will take effect Dec. 1. But a long pipeline of projects already in production ensures that Gunn and Safran's fingerprints will be on DC Studios for a while to come.
Source: nbcchicago.com
