Skydance has named former Marvel Studios executive Jeremy Latcham president and chief creative officer of DC Studios, replacing James Gunn and Peter Safran, who are stepping down as co-chairmen and co-CEOs after four years. The company announced the change on Monday 9 November in statements carried in full by Deadline, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and TheWrap. Latcham starts on 1 December.
The new name is only half the change. Latcham will report to Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein, co-chairs of Skydance Motion Picture Group, rather than to the top of the company. Gunn and Safran answered directly to the chief executive: David Zaslav at Warner Bros. Discovery and, after the merger, Skydance chairman and CEO David Ellison and co-CEO Ynon Kreiz, Deadline reported. DC now sits with the other Warner film labels under the two film chiefs.
Key facts
- New head: Jeremy Latcham, president and chief creative officer of DC Studios from 1 December 2026
- Remit: DC’s film, television and animation slate, including the creative pipeline, production, talent and strategy
- Reporting line: Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein, co-chairs of Skydance Motion Picture Group
- Departing: James Gunn and Peter Safran, co-chairmen and co-CEOs since late 2022, who stay on as producers
- Next DC film: Gunn’s Superman sequel Man of Tomorrow, in post-production and dated 9 July 2027
What Skydance said
Ellison and Kreiz credited Gunn and Safran with “resetting the foundation” of DC and building a slate they were “incredibly proud of”, and said they trusted the pair to “ensure a smooth, collaborative transition”. The company gave no reason for the change and disclosed no contract terms.
Gunn was more candid in an Instagram post after the announcement. His four years running the studio had been “trying, to say the least”, he wrote, adding: “I dislike the at-times corporate nature of the job.” In their joint statement the pair said they were “excited to return to what drew us to this job in the first place”, beginning with Man of Tomorrow.
The announcement came on the day Skydance reported its third-quarter results, five weeks after Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery closed on 6 October. Gunn and Safran had been named to Ellison’s leadership team at the close, Variety noted, and the merger has already brought exits elsewhere, including eight departures in TV and streaming distribution.
Who Latcham is
Latcham was one of the earliest employees of Marvel Studios, joining in 2004 and rising to senior vice-president of production and development under Kevin Feige. His credits run from Iron Man to The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Spider-Man: Homecoming, and Guardians of the Galaxy, in 2014, was his first film with Gunn.
He left Marvel in 2017 to found Latcham Pictures, which held first-look deals with 20th Century Fox, Hasbro and Wonder Project and produced Bad Times at the El Royale and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. Most recently he had an overall deal at Hasbro Entertainment, where he was developing a Dungeons & Dragons sequel and an Action Man film, and he is producing Lionsgate’s Naruto adaptation for director Destin Daniel Cretton.
The Gunn–Safran record
Zaslav hired the pair in 2022 to build a connected DC universe across film and television that could rival Marvel’s, and in January 2023 they announced their “Gods and Monsters” slate. Superman (2025) grossed about $618m worldwide. Supergirl, released in July, took $126m; Variety put its budget at $170m, while Deadline reported a net production cost of $186m. Clayface opened at No. 1 in North America on $24m in October and has reached $109m worldwide on a reported $44m budget. For HBO Max, the pair delivered a second season of Peacemaker, the animated Creature Commandos and Lanterns.
Their names stay on much of what comes next. Gunn wrote and directed Man of Tomorrow, which Deadline dates to 9 July 2027. The pair remain producers on Matt Reeves’s The Batman: Part II, due in 2028, according to The Hollywood Reporter, and executive producers on The People v. Gorilla Grodd, an eight-episode HBO Max series due in 2027.
What is not known
Skydance has not said whether the long-term plan Gunn and Safran presented to Ellison in recent weeks, as The Hollywood Reporter reported, will stand, or which announced projects Latcham will keep. Nor has it set out the terms of the pair’s producing arrangements after 1 December.
Our reading
The change of person makes the headline; the change of reporting line will last longer. Moving DC out of the chief executive’s office and into the motion picture group turns it into one production label among several, judged within a single film slate and release calendar. For producers, agents and comic-book creators with DC projects in development, the decision-maker from December is Latcham, with Goldberg and Greenstein above him.
The first commercial test is Man of Tomorrow in July 2027, a film Gunn now delivers as a producer rather than as the studio’s boss. The earlier signal will be Latcham’s first slate decision: which announced titles he confirms, and which leave the schedule.
Sources
- Deadline, DC Studios shakeup: James Gunn & Peter Safran out, former Marvel exec Jeremy Latcham in, 9 November 2026
- Variety, DC shocker: James Gunn, Peter Safran out as co-chairmen, Marvel veteran Jeremy Latcham to lead comic book studio, 9 November 2026
- The Hollywood Reporter, DC Studios shocker: James Gunn, Peter Safran stepping down with Marvel alum Jeremy Latcham to take over, 9 November 2026
- TheWrap, James Gunn and Peter Safran out at DC Studios, Jeremy Latcham named new president and chief creative officer, 9 November 2026
- IndieWire, DC Studios shakeup: James Gunn, Peter Safran stepping down as co-CEOs, 9 November 2026