Gunn and Safran leave their posts on Dec. 1, with Man of Tomorrow still set for July 9, 2027.
James Gunn and Peter Safran are stepping down from their DC Studios posts, and Jeremy Latcham, a Marvel veteran, will take over the comic book studio. Gunn and Safran, who have run DC for four years, leave their co-CEO roles effective Dec. 1, THR and EW report.
Latcham, who becomes president and chief creative officer, will lead DC's film, television and animation slate, "overseeing the creative pipeline, along with production, talent and strategy." He answers to Skydance Motion Picture Group's co-chairs, Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein. THR says Gunn and Safran reported directly to Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav before the merger, and before their exit reported directly to Skydance chairman and CEO David Ellison.
According to Variety, Latcham started at Marvel Studios in 2004 and was eventually promoted to senior vice president of production and development. He is credited as an executive producer on The Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy. He left Marvel in 2017 to found Latcham Pictures. In his statement, Latcham called the role "a massive responsibility that I do not take lightly."
Gunn wrote in a social media post that the past four years had been "trying, to say the least." He also described the part of the job he likes least:
"I dislike the at-times corporate nature of the job (thanks to Peter for taking the brunt of that)"
Gunn said he and Safran are not finished with DC. "That’s not to say Peter and I are immediately done with DC or superheroes," he wrote. "We’ve just engaged on another DC project which I’m writing, and we’ll see where it goes after that," he said.
Gunn calls Man of Tomorrow "the best filmmaking experience of my life," and the film is still scheduled to open in theaters on July 9, 2027. The People v. Gorilla Grodd, an eight-episode HBO Max series with Skyler Gisondo as Jimmy Olsen and Jimmy Tatro as Gorilla Grodd, has completed filming, Deadline reports.
Superman took in $618 million globally. Supergirl grossed $126.4 million worldwide, according to Deadline. Clayface has reached $109 million worldwide on a $44 million budget. Gunn and Safran also named Peacemaker, Creature Commandos and Lanterns among the projects they oversaw.
Gunn and Safran remain producers on The Batman: Part II, THR reports, and Steven Soderbergh is finishing the film in London for a Feb. 18, 2028 release, Deadline reports.
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