Skydance Swaps DC Studios Leadership Following Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger

Skydance is restructuring the leadership of DC Studios, removing co-CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran from their executive roles, as The Verge first reported. According to reporting from The Verge, which cited Deadline, the duo will be replaced by Jeremy Latcham, who previously served as the Senior Vice President of Production and Development at Marvel.

This leadership shift follows the completion of a megamerger between Warner Bros. and Paramount, a deal that created the combined Skydance entity led by CEO David Ellison. Under the new organizational chart, Latcham will assume control of DC Studios on December 1 and will report directly to Josh Greenstein and Dana Goldberg, the co-chairs of the Skydance Motion Picture Group.

While Gunn and Safran are stepping down from their leadership positions, they will remain involved in the franchise's creative output. The Verge reports that both will continue to produce various DC projects and are currently working on *Man of Tomorrow*, the sequel to *Superman*.

In a social media post on Instagram, James Gunn noted that he and Safran have been engaged on another DC project that Gunn is writing. Gunn described his tenure at DC Studios as "trying, to say the least," and expressed a dislike for the "corporate nature" of the executive role, noting that Safran handled the majority of those corporate burdens.

From a deals perspective, the rapid turnover at the top of DC Studios occurs as Skydance attempts to integrate the intellectual property of the franchise into its new corporate structure. The transition to Latcham, a former Marvel executive, suggests a pivot in how Skydance intends to manage the creative and production pipeline of the DC IP following the consolidation of the parent companies.