After “Superman” landed in theaters last summer, former Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav was ready to pop Champagne. Although the movie had only been playing on the big screen for three days, he touted the “bold 10-year plan” of DC Studios co-chiefs James Gunn and Peter Safran and promised “the DC vision is clear” and “the momentum is real.”
\n\nFast forward a year and a half, and those plans have imploded. Gunn and Safran were dismissed from the top of the comic book empire, with Marvel Studios alum Jeremy Latcham taking over as president and chief creative officer of DC Studios.
\n\nThe duo’s ouster wasn’t a total shock, even though they had been assured they were part of David Ellison’s business leadership team at Skydance after Paramount’s $111 billion acquisition of WBD closed in October. Had the two stayed, the org change would have represented a demotion. Under the previous regime, they answered directly to Zaslav and not movie co-chairs Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy. However, Ellison and co-CEO Ynon Kreiz made plans to shift Gunn and Safran’s reporting structure into new Skydance Motion Picture Group chiefs Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein.
\n\nThe executive shuffle is yet another…
Original source: https://variety.com/