The director of The Suicide Squad and creator of Peacemaker will now be running Warner Bros. DC movie universe ship with producer Peter Safran
Director James Gunn and producer Peter Safran will be co-chairs and co-CEOs of Warner Bros.’ new DC Studios, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday. DC Studios is a new Warner Bros. department replacing DC Films, and will oversee all DC Universe projects within film, TV, and animation.
New Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav has been on the lookout for a counterpart to Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige for quite some time, courting people from various backgrounds in the entertainment world.
Gunn previously had a closer relationship with Marvel, making the first two Guardians of the Galaxy movies before jumping ship to DC for 2021’s The Suicide Squad — after being fired from the third Guardians movie by Marvel.
