James Gunn and Peter Safran Leave DC Studios as Jeremy Latcham Takes the Helm
James Gunn and Peter Safran will no longer head DC Studios, and Jeremy Latcham will replace them as its head, taking over on December 1. The change was reported on November 9, 2026 by The Verge, with Deadline also covering the leadership transition.
Gunn and Safran became co-CEOs of DC Studios in 2022. Their appointment followed the announcement that they would serve as co-heads of Warner Bros. Discovery's DC studios, overseeing film, television and animation. In January 2023 they presented an eight- to 10-year plan for a more coherent series of DC films and series built around Superman and Batman. That slate, meaning the set of planned projects, included a Batman movie, a new Supergirl movie and a Green Lantern TV show, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Latcham is a former Marvel SVP (senior vice president) of Production and Development. He will report to Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein, co-chairs of Skydance Motion Picture Group. The reporting line follows the closing of the Paramount and Warner Bros. merger, which created a combined company led by CEO David Ellison.
Gunn and Safran are not leaving DC entirely. According to The Verge, they will continue to produce on various DC projects. They are still working on Man of Tomorrow, the follow-up to Gunn's Superman, which he directed. Gunn has also said that he and Safran have been engaged on another DC project, which he is writing.
The broader context here is a change in reporting structure as much as a change in personnel. DC Studios, which had been run by its own co-CEOs for the past several years, will now sit under film executives at Skydance Motion Picture Group. Whether that changes how DC greenlights projects, meaning formally approves them for production, or how the eight- to 10-year slate is sequenced is a question the announced details do not answer.
For the people building the slate, the immediate variables are continuity and handover. Gunn and Safran remain attached to Man of Tomorrow and other projects in development, so Latcham inherits active productions rather than a blank page. The coming weeks will show how much of the 2023 plan he keeps intact, and how much the new reporting line reshapes it.
