James Gunn and Peter Safran Replaced as DC CEOs

After four years, James Gunn and Peter Safran are out as the heads of DC Studios.The surprising announcement was made today by Warner Bros., who also announced that they will be replaced by former Marvel producer Jeremy Latcham, who will become DC’s president and chief creative officer.While the news comes shortly after Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. studio, it also comes with Gunn and Safran still working on their next big DC movie, Man of Tomorrow, the sequel to Gunn’s own Superman movie of 2025. That film is scheduled to open in theaters next summer.It also comes after they just turned Clayface from an obscure Batman villain into a solid box-office hit. The Clayface movie, just the third film from Gunn and Safran’s DC Studios, has grossed over $100 million worldwideGetty Images for Warner BrosGetty Images for Warner BrosREAD MORE: The Best Performances in DC Movies EverGunn and Safran were first given the titles of co-CEOs of DC Studios in the fall of 2022. By that point, Gunn had already directed The Suicide Squad for DC after years of leading the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise at Marvel. (He actually released Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 in 2023, after he was alr...