DC Studios Shocker: James Gunn, Peter Safran Stepping Down with Marvel Alum Jeremy Latcham to Take Over

The Verge reported that former Marvel Studios Senior Vice President of Production and Development Jeremy Latcham will take over, reporting to Skydance Motion Picture Group co-chairs Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein. The leadership change follows the recent closure of the megamerger between Paramount and Warner Bros., which resulted in the combined Skydance company led by CEO David Ellison.

Gunn and Safran are not departing DC entirely. According to Deadline, as reported by The Verge, both will "continue to produce on various DC projects" and are still working on the Superman follow-up titled Man of Tomorrow. Gunn also posted on Instagram that he and Safran have "just been engaged on another DC project which I’m writing."

In that same Instagram post, Gunn described his time at DC Studios as "trying, to say the least" and said, "I dislike the at-times corporate nature of the job (thanks to Peter for taking the brunt of that)." The comment suggests friction with the executive structure that now places Latcham under Goldberg and Greenstein rather than granting the autonomy Gunn and Safran held as co-CEOs.

Latcham’s appointment marks a return to a more traditional studio hierarchy. As Marvel’s SVP of Production and Development, he oversaw films including Iron Man, The Avengers, and Guardians of the Galaxy. His new role at Skydance’s DC Studios places him two levels below Ellison, a structural shift from the direct authority Gunn and Safran exercised.

The transition arrives less than two years after Gunn and Safran unveiled their first slate under the "Gods and Monsters" banner. With Man of Tomorrow and an unnamed written-by-Gunn project still in development, the creative pipeline they started remains active, but final creative and strategic decisions will now flow through Latcham and the Skydance Motion Picture Group leadership.