re: Gunn no longer running DC Studios.

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DC Studios heads James Gunn and Peter Safran were feeling pretty secure under the new Skydance regime.

After surviving a merger that claimed the jobs of celebrated Warner Bros. heads Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy, the duo were basking in the modest success of Clayface, a horror movie released Oct. 21 that passed $100 million globally on a relatively modest $44 million budget. There was even talk of doing more spooky, slimmed-down DC movies.

Gunn had also wrapped production on Man of Tomorrow, his sequel to Superman that is heading for a July 2027 release, and sources say he was in the midst of writing a third installment, as part of plan to make a trilogy and release a Superman movie every two years, maybe even morphing the franchise into a Justice League teamup.

Then came Friday, Nov. 6, when Skydance co-CEOs David Ellison and Ynon Kreiz arrived at Gunn and Safran’s offices on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank. There, according to sources, the DC heads were told that despite previous assurances they would be part of the new Skydance mega-studio, Ellison and Kreiz had a change of plans. And now, after four years as two of the most visible faces in comic book films and TV, they were out.

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One insider indicated the exec shuffle had been in the works since early fall and had been precipitated by a reachout to Latcham from Josh Greenstein, who co-chairs the Skydance Motion Picture Group with Dana Goldberg. The two first worked together nearly 20 years ago when Latcham was a rising Marvel exec and Greenstein was in the marketing department at Paramount, the studio that released Iron Man and Iron Man 2. They teamed again when Greenstein was at Sony and made Spider-Man: Homecoming with Marvel.

Sources point to several points of tension between DC’s Gunn and Safran and Skydance’s Greenstein and Goldberg. Before Skydance’s acquisition, Gunn and Safran reported directly to Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav; their contracts stipulated they would maintain that kind of direct reporting structure in the event of a change of leadership, in this case Ellison. That set up a chafing with Greenstein and Goldberg, who are trying to consolidate all production of motion pictures under them. Gunn and Safran, meanwhile, were accustomed to having strong control over every aspect of the rollout of DC products.

“They had the final word on movies, TV shows, and animation,” says one insider. They were not about to get layered in the reporting structure, multiple sources add.

Another tension point: sources say the DC heads were not forthcoming or were slow in sharing plans, slate details and footage with the Skydance movie heads. In the end, Greenstein and Goldberg prevailed and in the new hiring, Latcham will be reporting to them.

Another insider is more blunt in the assessment. Ellison never wanted DC to report directly to him in the first place and did not have time for studio politics, such as any posturing between division heads.

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Report: DC Studios New Executive Jeremy Latcham says faith, redemption and traditional heroic values should have a place in blockbuster films.

During his time at Marvel, Latcham said he would often ask himself, “I don’t know if my grandma would like that,” using the question as a guiding principle when developing movies for everyday families.

He recalled realizing Iron Man had connected with audiences when his grandmother’s church drew parallels between the film and redemption during a sermon.

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 have no opinion on the new guy, but it'll be pretty lame to avoid having DC movies look and feel like Marvel movies for so long just hire a guy who wants things to look and feel like Marvel movies.

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