James Gunn on DC Departure: ‘Incredibly Relieved and Excited’

DC fans might have been shocked to learn that James Gunn and Peter Safran are done at DC just four years into their tenure as co-CEOs of DC Studios, and the chief engineers of their new film and TV universe.Gunn himself? He says he’s “incredibly relieved and excited.”In a long statement posted to his Instagram account, Gunn said that working as DC co-CEO has been “a dream come true” but he also revealed that his time running the company “has been trying, to say the least.”“When I was a kid growing up in Manchester, Missouri, I used to write and draw my own comics with a mix of DC Comics characters and my own characters,” Gunn wrote. “Having full access to these characters to do whatever we wanted has been a dream com true. I didn’t know if I wanted this job when it was offered to me, but I just couldn’t pass up the unique opportunity. I’m glad I took the job.”But, he added, “what only the closest people to me have known over the past four years is my time at DC Studios has been trying, to say the least. I dislike the at-times corporate nature of the job (thanks to Peter for taking the brunt of that). I’m always a very hard worker, but as a filmmaker I would at least get to take sho...