James Gunn and Peter Safran will soon stop running Skydance's DC Studios, the job they have held as co-CEOs since 2022.
According to Deadline, their replacement is Jeremy Latcham, a former Marvel SVP of Production and Development. The handover is upcoming, not finished.
Gunn and Safran are not leaving DC entirely. Deadline says they will "continue to produce on various DC projects" and are still working on Man of Tomorrow, the Superman followup. Gunn also said on Instagram that the two have "just been engaged on another DC project which I'm writing."
His farewell was not warm. Gunn called his time at DC Studios "trying, to say the least."
That makes this closer to a change of job titles than a clean exit. On the projects named, Gunn moves from running the studio to writing and producing for it. Keeping both of them on Man of Tomorrow suggests the near-term slate is not being torn up, though that is our reading, not something either side has spelled out. It matters because DC's film plans have been reset more than once in the past decade, and continuity among the people who drew up the current one is the thing fans and investors tend to watch.
The open question is how authority will work in practice: when the person running the studio is not the writer and producer on its flagship projects, who has the final word on creative calls?