James Gunn and Peter Safran were told on November 6, 2026 that they were out at DC Studios, ending their four-year run just as Skydance was reshaping the studio around Jeremy Latcham. David Ellison and Ynon Kreiz delivered the news in person on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank.
The move matters now because Gunn had already wrapped production on Man of Tomorrow and was writing a third Superman installment, part of a plan to release a Superman movie every two years. That meant the change landed squarely in the middle of a franchise roadmap already tied to the next chapter of Kara Zor-El’s world, with readers now asking who would steer it next.
Jeremy Latcham was named as the replacement, a choice that linked the new regime back to an old connection: nearly 20 years ago, Josh Greenstein was in marketing at Paramount while Latcham was rising at Marvel Studios, and later the two worked together again when Greenstein was at Sony and made Spider-Man: Homecoming with Marvel. Latcham had previously backed Gunn’s hiring on Guardians of the Galaxy, which gives the appointment a familiar industry logic even after the abrupt break.
But the change also carried a sharp contradiction. One insider said the shuffle had been in the works since early fall, after a reachout from Greenstein to Latcham, even though Gunn and Safran had been assured earlier that they would be part of the new mega-studio. That is the part that makes the removal more than a simple reset: it suggests the decision hardened only after plans had already been discussed as if the two would stay.
The timing adds more weight. Clayface, released on October 21, had already passed $100 million globally on a $44 million budget, feeding talk of more spooky, slimmer DC projects. Gunn and Safran had also survived a merger that cost Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy their jobs, but that protection did not extend to this round of changes. Latcham, meanwhile, had moved to Texas to go independent and was focusing on inspirational projects such as Flyer for Wonder Project and House of David, which he described as efforts to make “movies and television shows that restore faith in things worth believing in.”
What remains unclear is the specific disagreement that pushed Skydance to reverse course after those earlier assurances. For now, the clean answer is that Gunn and Safran were out, Latcham was in, and the future of DC’s Superman plan shifted before the next film cycle could lock into place.
