Breaking: Skydance names Jeremy Latcham to lead DC Studios as James Gunn and Peter Safran step away

Skydance just reshuffled the top of DC Studios. In a press release posted this afternoon and shared on X, the company named Jeremy Latcham President and Chief Creative Officer of DC Studios, effective December 1, 2026. James Gunn and Peter Safran will step away from their leadership roles after four years and, per Skydance, return full time to their creative work.

This is the same Skydance that closed its Warner Bros. Discovery buyout last month and, as we covered yesterday, is already cutting into its games division. DC is now under that roof too.

Who Latcham is, and who he reports to

Latcham is a Marvel Studios veteran. Skydance says he was part of the founding MCU team, rising to Senior Vice President of Production and Development and working closely with Kevin Feige. His producer credits include Iron Man, Iron Man 2, The Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Spider-Man: Homecoming. After leaving Marvel in 2017 he ran Latcham Pictures and later produced Bad Times at the El Royale and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.

In the new role he will lead DC’s film, television and animation slate, overseeing the creative pipeline plus production, talent and strategy. He reports to Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein, Co-Chairs of Skydance Motion Picture Group. Deadline and Variety both note that reporting line. THR separately flagged it as a change from Gunn and Safran reporting higher up the chain before the merger.

What happens to Gunn, Safran, and the slate

Skydance’s language is that Gunn and Safran are stepping away from leadership, not vanishing from DC projects. Their joint statement says they are “excited to return to what drew us to this job in the first place, which is telling the stories we love, including the next chapter of Clark and Lex’s journey in Man of Tomorrow.”

Confirmed slate details from the press release:

• Man of Tomorrow — written and directed by James Gunn, produced by Gunn and Safran, currently in post-production, theatrical date July 9, 2027
• The Batman Part II — starring Robert Pattinson, currently in production; Steven Soderbergh is finishing principal photography, with Gunn and Safran producing
• The People v. Gorilla Grodd — eight-episode HBO Max series expected in 2027; filming is complete; Gunn and Safran are executive producers

Skydance also credits the Gunn/Safran tenure with Superman (more than $618 million worldwide) and Clayface (more than $109 million worldwide and counting). Deadline adds that Supergirl was a miss on those numbers, and that it remains to be seen which “Gods and Monsters”-era projects Goldberg, Greenstein and Latcham keep.

How Skydance is framing it

Chairman and CEO David Ellison and Co-CEO Ynon Kreiz said Gunn and Safran “launched a new era for DC Studios and led it through a period of real transformation,” and that Latcham “has been a longtime creative partner to both.” They said they look forward to working with Latcham “to build the next generation of DC storytelling.”

Variety called the exit unexpected because Gunn and Safran had been named as part of Ellison’s leadership team when the Warner Bros. deal closed in October. Deadline reported that sources had told the site the pair were staying after the acquisition, while also noting Safran’s contract was said to be expiring in the spring. Treat that as trade sourcing, not company confirmation.

PPR take: Another Skydance shakeup, one day after the games-side cuts. Owning Warner Bros. and DC was always going to mean someone new calling the shots eventually. The company is careful with its wording, and Gunn is still attached as a filmmaker on Man of Tomorrow, so this isn’t a clean wipe of the current slate. Latcham is a Marvel pipeline executive. I’ll wait to see what he actually keeps, changes or shelves before calling this a new direction. Day-one statements are easy. The next couple of greenlights will tell us more.