On Tuesday, Paramount will officially own Warner Bros. and form a new combined company called Skydance. Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zasalv and Warner Bros. co-CEOs Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy will not be part of the new company, but there will not be any major changes to DC Studios -- at least at first.
Deadline is reporting that James Gunn and Peter Safran will continue to run DC Studios. The duo met with the new Skydance co-CEO David Ellison about their future and it went well. They will now report to Paramount Pictures co-chairs Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein.
The Hollywood Reporter says that Gunn and Safran met with Ellison yesterday and were told "keep doing what you're doing". They added:
The general consensus is they should at least see through the releases of the movies that are either completed or in post-production, namely the upcoming horror thriller Clayface (Oct. 23), and the especially Man of Tomorrow, the big-budget Superman sequel that opens July 2027.
DC Studios had a rough year at the box office with Supergirl, and it will look to redeem itself later this month with Clayface. The real test will be next summer's Man of Tomorrow. If that doesn't go well, there could be some big changes coming. For now though, the only major change is Gunn and Safran have new bosses.
Stay tuned to Batman News for more on the future of DC Studios under Skydance.
SOURCE: Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter
I want to think that's all it is, that they are just there to finish out Man of Tomorrow; however, Ellison allowed Alex Kurtzman to continue to produce, write, and create the worst and most despised era of Star Trek to the point the franchise is dead.
Star Trek is so dead, that for the first time since The Next Generation, there will not be any Star Trek projects in production. And let me remind you, The Next Generation started in 1987.
So to me, that's kind of a red flag that things won't get fixed, and there's a good chance they'll stay on to continue to make Troma DC for years to come, as it just crumbles as a brand.
Larry_J one of Gunn's new bosses, Josh Greenstein, was listening to DC pitches earlier this year. I think Gunn is going to have less control under Skydance:
Chris They need to have zero control. If Gunn wants to make more Suicide Squad movies or Peacemaker with someone else in control of DC to tell him, "No, that's too many dicks, no gay orgies, stop flooding Superman with other irreverent characters, if you say Batmite one more time I'm throwing you out that window," then I'm cool with it.