DC Studios co-presidents James Gunn and Peter Safran have formally introduced they’re going to step down, and Marvel veteran Jeremy Latcham will substitute them. Gunn and Safran architected the brand new DC Universe of movies and TV sequence, they usually additionally had bold plans to broaden the DCU into video video games. Latcham is not any stranger to superhero cinema, with credit on a number of of Marvel’s largest tasks, together with Spider-Man, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Avengers.
“4 years in the past, we got down to unite DC below one artistic imaginative and prescient. In that point, we helped restore Superman to the guts of DC, whereas opening new doorways and telling new tales in movie and tv with Peacemaker, Creature Commandos, Lanterns and Clayface,” Gunn and Safran wrote in an announcement (through Selection). “We’re immensely pleased with the staff that turned that ambition into one thing actual, together with the actors, crews and executives we had the chance to collaborate with. We’ve shared a artistic historical past with Jeremy going again to Marvel, and we’re desperate to see the angle he brings to DC’s subsequent chapter. We’re excited to return to what drew us to this job within the first place, which is telling the tales we love, together with the following chapter of Clark and Lex’s journey in Man of Tomorrow.”
Following the relaunch of the DC Universe in movie, Gunn later spoke in regards to the potential of cross-platform storytelling, saying actors would painting their characters throughout all types of media—together with video video games. “We now have a few little DC video games popping out. However we even have talked about–and in early phases of planning–some greater issues,” Gunn mentioned in 2025. “One factor specifically I’m enthusiastic about, however it does take time.”
We by no means bought to listen to David Corenswet reprise his position as Superman in a online game, and since then, large adjustments have occurred behind the scenes. Paramount’s $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery was authorized earlier this yr, resulting in a merger between Warner Bros. Interactive (the WB division that publishes video video games primarily based on the corporate’s IP) and Paramount Video games Studio.
Whereas the bold plans for the online game aspect of DC Studios by no means materialized, Gunn and Safran have been nonetheless busy constructing a brand new DC Universe for the massive and small display. Three function movies have been released–Superman, Supergirl, and Clayface–while the TV aspect noticed a number of animated and live-action tasks like Lanterns, Creature Commandos, and Peacemaker. Subsequent yr’s large venture is the Superman sequel Man of Tomorrow, which Gunn wrote and co-directed, and The Folks v. Gorilla Grodd is an upcoming sequence that can see Skyler Gisondo again as Jimmy Olsen.
On the online game aspect, Rocksteady is rumored to be engaged on a brand new single-player Batman sport.