DC Studios co-presidents James Gunn and Peter Safran have formally introduced they’re going to step down, and Marvel veteran Jeremy Latcham will exchange them. Gunn and Safran architected the brand new DC Universe of movies and TV sequence, and so they additionally had bold plans to increase the DCU into video video games. Latcham isn’t any stranger to superhero cinema, with credit on a number of of Marvel’s greatest initiatives, together with Spider-Man, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Avengers.
“4 years in the past, we got down to unite DC underneath one artistic imaginative and prescient. In that point, we helped restore Superman to the center 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 a press release (through Selection). “We’re immensely pleased with the workforce 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 wanting to see the attitude 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 concerning the potential of cross-platform storytelling, saying actors would painting their characters throughout all types of media—together with video video games. “We have now a few little DC video games popping out. However we even have talked about–and in early levels of planning–some larger issues,” Gunn stated 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 function as Superman in a online game, and since then, huge adjustments have occurred behind the scenes. Paramount’s $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery was authorized earlier this yr, main to a merger between Warner Bros. Interactive (the WB division that publishes video video games based mostly on the corporate’s IP) and Paramount Video games Studio.
Whereas the bold plans for the online game facet of DC Studios by no means materialized, Gunn and Safran had been nonetheless busy constructing a brand new DC Universe for the massive and small display. Three function movies had been released–Superman, Supergirl, and Clayface–while the TV facet noticed a number of animated and live-action initiatives like Lanterns, Creature Commandos, and Peacemaker. Subsequent yr’s huge mission 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 facet, Rocksteady is rumored to be engaged on a brand new single-player Batman sport.
