James Gunn has said his four years as co-head of DC Studios were “trying, to say the least,” as he prepared to hand the top job to Marvel Studios alumnus Jeremy Latcham, per cbr.com.
In a social media post, the filmmaker said he disliked “the at-times corporate nature of the job” and had given up the short breaks he would normally take between projects as a filmmaker. He thanked his wife, Jennifer, for her support and apologised for the time lost to his work.
Gunn, who ran the studio with producer Peter Safran, said he had struggled to divide his time between projects he was passionate about and the administrative duties of a studio head. He added that his ADHD hyperfocus made that balance especially difficult.
The post went further than the joint statement issued by Gunn and Safran when it was announced that Latcham would take over as DC Studios chief executive. Gunn said only those closest to him had known how difficult the role had been.
He also looked back fondly on the period. Recalling how he wrote and drew his own comics as a child in Manchester, Missouri, he said having full access to DC characters had been “a dream come true”. He named the release of Superman and Clayface, the making of Peacemaker and work on Man of Tomorrow among the highlights. Gunn described the latter as the best filmmaking experience of his life. He also praised Safran as “the smartest and most competent person I know” and thanked Safran for absorbing much of the corporate workload.
Gunn and Safran will formally step down as co-CEOs on December 1. Gunn will remain involved with DC beyond that date. Man of Tomorrow, which he wrote and directed, opens in cinemas on July 9, 2027. He said he and Safran are also working on another DC project, which he is writing.
“That’s not to say Peter and I are immediately done with DC or superheroes,” Gunn wrote, adding that the characters they had established “will live on”.
Man of Tomorrow is the sequel to Superman and stars David Corenswet as Superman, Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor, Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane and Lars Eidinger as Brainiac.
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