Four years after they were handed the keys to DC's movie universe, James Gunn and Peter Safran are leaving the building. Skydance announced on November 9 that the two co-heads of DC Studios are departing, and that Marvel veteran Jeremy Latcham will take over as president and chief creative officer.
What's confirmed
Per TheWrap, the announcement came from Skydance chairman and CEO David Ellison and co-CEO Ynon Kreiz. Latcham starts on December 1 and reports to Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein, the co-chairs of Skydance Motion Picture Group. He'll oversee DC's film, television and animation slate, from the creative pipeline to production and talent. Forbes, citing the trades, says Gunn and Safran's exits take effect the same day.
Gunn and Safran aren't vanishing overnight. Skydance says they'll return to creative work full time, including post-production on Man of Tomorrow, the Superman sequel, and other DC projects.
The record they leave behind
It's a mixed ledger. TheWrap lists Superman at $618 million worldwide, Supergirl at $126.4 million (an underperformer), and Clayface at $109 million after three weekends. On TV, Peacemaker, Creature Commandos and Lanterns are counted as hits. That's one clear win, one clear miss, and a lot of the slate still unfinished.
Who is Jeremy Latcham?
If the name doesn't ring a bell, that's by design. Latcham was part of the founding core at Marvel Studios under Kevin Feige, with producing credits on the Iron Man and Avengers films and Tom Holland's Spider-Man movies. TheWrap adds that he also worked with Gunn on the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy, which makes this a stranger handoff than it looks. A producer who helped build the Marvel machine is now running its biggest rival, and he already knows how Gunn works.
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Gunn's response
Gunn posted a long Instagram statement, summarized by TheWrap, saying he feels "incredibly relieved" and that the characters he and Safran set up will live on. He called Man of Tomorrow the best filmmaking experience of his life and said the corporate side of the job wasn't for him.
What we don't know yet
Nothing in the coverage says which projects Latcham will keep, change or cancel, or how the planned slate shifts. The release timing of Man of Tomorrow also isn't pinned down in the reporting. The first real answers will come once he starts in December.