Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav told Wall Street analysts on August 6, 2026, that the Superman sequel Man of Tomorrow looks "amazing" and "fantastic," with DC co-chief James Gunn working 16 to 18 hours a day on the film (Deadline).

Zaslav said he saw pictures from the production the day before the call — which happened to be Gunn's birthday. The remarks came on Warner Bros. Discovery's second-quarter 2026 earnings call, held at 8:00 a.m. ET on Thursday, August 6 (WBD Investor Relations).

The enthusiasm arrives against a bruising quarter for the studio. The DC film Supergirl grossed $126 million worldwide and, in Deadline's reporting, "melted down" at the June box office, weighing on Warner Bros. Discovery's overall second-quarter performance against tough comparisons with a stellar 2025 (Deadline).

Zaslav built his career in television, with long tenures at NBC and Discovery Communications before the merger that created Warner Bros. Discovery in 2022. That same year he installed Gunn and Peter Safran as co-chairmen and CEOs of DC, tasking them with turning the comic-book division around. Their 2025 Superman film, along with the hit series The Penguin, was described as a crowning moment for the new leadership team (Deadline).

On Thursday's call, Zaslav said DC "feels very good" and pointed to a robust pipeline that includes Clayface and Lanterns among upcoming slate titles. He also said he recently spoke with Matt Reeves, who is working on the follow-up to The Batman (Deadline).

At the studio's first-quarter earnings call on February 26, 2026, management had already flagged Kong 3 and Superman: Man of Tomorrow from James Gunn as part of what it called "a truly monumental year" for Warner Bros. (The Motley Fool).

For context, this is not the first time Zaslav has gone before analysts with high praise for a DC title. In 2023 he told the same audience he "loved" The Flash, calling it "a wow." The film went on to flop later that year (Deadline).

That track record is worth holding in mind, but the production detail Zaslav shared Thursday — fresh images reviewed the day before, a director logging marathon hours — gives fans and investors something concrete to weigh alongside the rhetoric. Man of Tomorrow now sits at the centre of DC's effort to prove that the 2025 rebound was a foundation, not a peak.