Jeremy Latcham named President and Chief Creative Officer of DC Studios
It’s now very clear Gunn was fired, and I can’t stop looking at the politics of his replacement, Jeremy Latchman - He moved his family/business Musk-style from California to Texas - Produced Christian/conservative projects like Young Washington & House of David - Those projects proudly use AI slop
Henry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality)256This is the exact Ellison playbook as hiring turds like Bari Weiss or Brett Ratner, or in firing of Stephen Colbert. The Ellison family finds a conservative “outsider” to replace an ideological enemy in their new company, all in the cause of a culture war that they want to win (even if unprofitable)
So one of the reasons given for dissatisfaction with Gunn was the bombing of Supergirl, which turned out to use AI So in response they’re…hiring a guy involved with projects that even more blatantly use AI
Radio Free Sam, Private Eye23I do think the argument that Gunn's movies weren't as successful as they hoped (though quality-wise, a vast improvement over Snyder) isn't so much his fault as just superhero burnout. If it's not Spider-Man or the Avengers, chances are it's gonna underperform
Evelyn X19Excuse me, but what was "Superman" (2025) if not inspirational? The fact that it felt inspirational is all anyone, who wasn't butthurt that they thought their fascist idols were represented by the bad guys in it, could talk about for months.
Aram17RIP Warner Bros, you had a good - well, you had a run.
Alexander Ruegg13They are going to be so miserable losing so much money for so many reasons they do not understand, barf on their shoes, strip WB down to the studs and sell its carcass to Alibaba in 4 years.
Tyler King79Guys Paramount/WB merger is gonna lose a hundred billion dollars
Will Weldon19People are going to wholesale reject this like they did with Ellison's CBS takeover and it will absolutely devastate the American entertainment industry and Hollywood specifically. Anyway Newsom/Bonta 2028.
Vince Mancini18"While promoting 'The Breadwinner on the 'Bible Bros' podcast." We discussed this movie on the pod a while back. One of the most strangely takeless movies I've ever seen. www.patreon.com/frotcast/pos...
Revan16The one weird bit there which is throwing off my calculations is he also did the D&D movie?
Alex Ullman15Let's take a character, created by two Jews, with an origin story that has serious parallels to the story of Moses...and turn him into a cipher for the Conservative American version of Christianity (which to be clear is pretty far from the teachings of Christ as I understand).
Punk on Bus Lives!🚍📻13The MAGA Ellisons message to Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, atheists, Wiccans and many other assorted non-Christians: "Don't even bother watching DC movies anymore, cuz they ain't for you!"
Derek Powazek8Prepare for an avalanche of DC slop.
Sonia Mansfield7There's going to be an indie movie explosion. No one is going to pay to see this crap in the theater.
Flounder5I hope Star Trek lays fallow for years rather than have someone like this take charge. Ugh.
67 Sound4Good to know I can ignore everything DC-related moving forward.
James Gunn and Peter Safran found out that they were no longer going to be running DC Studios this past Friday. Skydance co-CEOs David Ellison and Ynon Kreiz broke the news to them in person. (Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...)
Cap96Oh holy fucking shit Man FUCK the Ellisons. Anti art with too much money
Mike62I thought they had actually stepped down voluntarily. There's goes another DCEU I guess
Radical Spider45Genuinely gonna kill the only chance they had at the DCU being successful overall. At least with Gunn still writing and directing movies to come, we'll get some diamonds in the rough. Maybe this means that he can do Legendary Star-Lord tho, I'd like that
Sebastian Fawkes34David Ellison try Not to be a Liability to Cinema Challenge Impossible
Hello Hart24We all knew this was coming though, right? The Ellisons are right wing losers. The DCU under Gunn has main character women. There’s no way they could let that slide.
Hydragon 🐉23I hope this merger gets broken up for good next year, the AGs were fucking cowards for choosing to settle with that spoiled nepo baby in the first place.
Sam, the Geeky Citizen59*Deep breath* ... we're still getting Man of Tomorrow next year. Hopefully, it'll be successful enough for Skydance to change their minds...assuming the enormous debt they're in doesn't lead to them selling the studio again.
Dan35Fun Fact, David Ellison wanted this Hitler mural in one of his office
a.westwood31I’m disgusted, and I can’t express how angry and upset this whole situation makes me. I was under the impression that this was Gunn’s decision based on his last statement; that doesn’t seem to be the case, and I’m completely heartbroken over losing what we could’ve continued to have with the DCU.
Rosie Amy 🏳️⚧️22What gets me is Ellison was praising these guys and talking about keeping them on. Lying douche.
Cody | Wile E stan18The moment democrats take back congress next year y'all are gonna have to scream at them to undo this merger, it's just gonna get worse
Taylor Ledbetter14Every damn time Ellison makes a decision, it gets a little bit harder for me not to revert back to my old ventposting ways. Anyone who’s followed me for long enough should know what I’m thinking. I can’t say it, but I really don’t have to at this point.
Teddy 🌈 ♾️ 🦋 RIP Eric Bauza 🥕9This merger was such a disaster. Hope things get better for James Gunn, honestly.
Ben Williams9THE THICK PLOTTENS! So he *didn’t* quit. Lol, was a Netflix merger really that scary compared to the Ellison nightmare?
Conor6Whoop, there it is. Not mutual.
lukielovely5oh they really thought they were winning the midterms 😭
And the penny drops. Now we know why he got the job. Oh boy. Get ready for some of the worst big budget movies you have ever seen in your entire life.
Nash85By the way, did you know there are angel superheroes in DC comics? Like, angels of the lord sent from heaven and shit. It's (snort) canon. I'M JUST SAYIN'
Goofierbrute27The people who were telling me that Skydance would have been better for WB than Netflix have been awfully quiet lately. I wonder why.
Yelling Jolteon16The next Superman movie - Barovia has a Right to Defend itself.
Silly Rookie15Yeah this is worse than a Snyder 2.0 didn't expect that.
MrInsecure9"The Old Gods are dead. The New Gods are also dead, for they have met their match before the One True God-"
Michael Scally8Wonder Woman's getting straight up sent to the Phantom Zone...
Mike Toole28they made a superhero movie for a christian audience just last year. it was called 'Superman' and it made 600 million dollars worldwide
Darryl Mott9I'm morbidly curious what DC movies would look like through the lens of the cinematic equivalent of Christian Rock. *Batman turns chair backwards and sits* I may be the night, but do you know who is the light?
Holly Green6on any given day, if you wander into The Boyz subreddit, the fans are complaining about how the show got too speculative on politics and culture
Nathan Alderman4JAMES GUNN: So he's sent from the heavens by his father to save all humanity-- DAVID ELLISON: Mhmm, go on JG: And he walks among the people performing miracles --- DE: yes, yes JG: like saving immigrants from a murderous billionaire's one-way hell-prison -- DE: he what now
Tex3*flips a chair around to sit backwards on it* Hey kids, do you like superheroes? Well let me tell you about the first superhero. He could heal the sick and walk on water
dumbdeeples.bsky.social2Not all christian movies are bad, to be fair. There are actually some that are quite watchable. The keyword there is "some". Making a whole universe out of them is a bad bad bad idea.
Here's a sober business take re: DC Studios: A dynamic executive would look at the stories about how the "Blue Wave" was largely driven by Millennial rage at data centers, ICE, etc and conclude "Wow, our 'SUPERMAN' movie was ahead of that curve! Let's keep doing that!" Skydance did the opposite.
Bob Chipman ("MovieBob")107Gunn's DCU movies were the tone/ideology/etc you'd pivot TOWARD after seeing where "the public" now wants to go. Ellison either thinks he knows BETTER or he doesn't like that direction period and doesn't mind burning his money to not follow it. Either way, bad business.
herostratus356.bsky.social15The last decade has shown us that rich people aren't just cold hearted businessmen who want to make as much money as possible. They are as emotional, ideological, and egotistical as anyone else.
MOS_850212They’re turning DC into those production companies that make direct to dvd Left Behind type shit sold at Christian bookstores.
Waldo4Do you think Gunn will go do more work for Marvel? If so that makes ditching him even dumber. He’s popular and going to work with your competitors again.
Ryan Krumm1Superman barely had a coherent plot, let alone a coherent political ideology.
Matt Baldwin58The more I think about it, the more Friday’s firing feels like a panic move, people looking at the election results and feeling like they’re about to lose cultural capture, so they double-down on what they currently do control.
MxSharknado93 says Free Palestine!25"We have to use Batman and The White Lantern to teach the young people a lesson!" "David, he's the Green Lantern." "You know what I mean, the one who's not black."
Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾4Feel like I'm gonna have to start giving people a hard time on other stuff to make up for how often I've been agreeing with them re Skydace/DC ... but this exactly. Ellison's basically the Republicans who wrote all those 1000 year Reich takes after Bush won in 2004.
DC could have had even MORE horror movies in the works! Before their exit, James Gunn and Peter Safran were reportedly exploring more horror-focused DC movies following CLAYFACE, including projects like SWAMP THING and JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK. bloody-disgusting.com/movie/397531...
Emon8But gotta think of the Christian grandma instead now…
Walker Riley3You mean to tell me we almost had Matt Ryan back playing live action John Constantine. I will never forgive the Elisons for anything ever.
The WTK Cut | Movie Reviews1Clayface proved DC horror can work, and Swamp Thing still got dragged back under the bog.
grace7justice league dark wouldve been peak what the helly 💔💔💔
Demon 🦇5I don't think we're getting them.... 😔 Well it was good while it lasted
⚔️💚Jessica the Hyrule Hero⚔️💚 (OOT HYPE!!)3I'm tired guys 😔😔😔 again, DC is dead and back to its dark days I guess
EvantheKaiju833Once again, FUCK Warner Brothers. #horrorsky #filmsky
Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer3I'm guessing Mangold's SWAMP THING is dead now, and that's a fucking tragedy. Goddamnit.
✨𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧✨2I'm too upset right now. WE COULD'VE HAD MORE HORROR!?
always everywhere.2// i’m fucking heated right now
A recent interview with new DCU head Jeremy Latcham offers insight into its possible future as he talks about what he brought to Marvel: keeping the films clean and inspiring enough that his grandma could watch them & they could be discussed in his local church. www.darkhorizons.com/batman-justi...
Chris Weston62These films are based on comics AKA Penny Dreadfuls! They're allowed to be subversive and unedifying! Kids love that shit. It's a small shot of noxiousness to immunise them against the avalanche of shit that adulthood brings. The Grimm Brothers worked this out centuries ago.
Virgopunk15Said it yesterday, the new DCU films will be pabulum, devoid of anything that could possibly upset granny/white christian nationalists. However, I'm also expecting Skydance to hit the skids in 6-12 months, so there's that to look forward to.
Frank Davis MLIS7I am bewildered that this new guy is both a) allergic to money, b) why would grandmothers wanna watch superhero content? and c) Warners destroys whoever tries to change it.
Augh6jeremy your grandmother finds pinterest inspo roundup sponsored by draftkings and generated by insta inspiring so fucking what now
Joshua Murray-Nevill5That's the Killing Joke out then.
Fabian Nicieza3So, what Jeremy "brought" to the movies was basically what Marvel Comics had been for the previous 70 years...?
Chris Farnell214What Gunn got about why the MCU worked in the first place is that it allows for wildly different tones to cohabit. And I'm always banging this drum but this is why I like shared narrative universes. Not because they present a cohesive vision, but because they are fragmented and divergent.
A Chilly Autumn Breeze3HAHAHA I DON'T CARE ABOHT DC MOVIES ANY MORE LOL
Ian Voted for Godzilla2I will fight this man in front of his grandmother and enjoy some of her award-winning casserole afterward.
Shawn Cain2Inheritently, having some films that are "cleaner" for wider audiences is fine, but sacrificing more creative and experimental ideas for only that isn't building a universe but contracting it and shoving it into a box.
Bonnot2he's a freak show far right christian that gladly talks on Pat Robertson's bullshit network, and also suppported Spencer Pratt for mayor of LA. He's one of those I miss the 50s dumb shits.
zaratustra2how old is jeremy latcham's grandma? wikipedia is mum on the subject
Oh. Well. This explains a few things. David Ellison is proving to be just as competent a studio chief as he was an actor.
85brettnolan15.bsky.social3They can't even make good "normal" movies. Can you imagine how bad a superhero movie would be?
Drew Davenport2It’s gonna be Super Jesus all over again
Jose Munoz1I think it's just one podcast. Can we not do this without actual information. Man I'm getting tired of this. From both sides.
We wish Jeremy Latcham good luck with his Shazam Cinematic Universe
This Scientitian4I thought it was weird when Superman stopped fighting Brainiac and just got down on his knees and prayed while Metropolis was flattened but we were told it'll all be okay because it's part of the divine plan. Still, a bold new direction.
Pete[r… What’s happening?]3I wish Jim Caviezel the best on his re-entry into the Hollywood fray.
Dralasite2It's bold to use Shazam for christian audience: in-universe that character is seen as a pedophile.
This narrative they’re going to spin is insane. I know more people excited about DC properties than ever. Just goddamn depressing. variety.com/2026/film/ne...
Chris Weston3It's so shortsighted. It took Marvel TEN years to build to $2Billion-making movies. Gunn and Co. had just begun that journey. Whoever follows them will have to start all over again... again.
Rich Wojcicki2The idea that they’re going back to “go DIRECTLY to Justice League!” is just depressing.
"The pair’s exit was a combination of studio politics (Gunn & Safran had complete control over DC Studios, but Skydance boss David Ellison allegedly had other ideas) the DCU’s box office struggles, and an apparent feeling that Latcham will deliver movies “more in line with Ellison’s broader tastes.”
Prostate Puncher23Any future Superman stuff out of the new guy is fucked because he's already talking about future films being made for a Christian audience. Straight aiming for that fuckhead right wing audience by the looks of it.
Ignota19iirc the new guy in charge talked about making more "christian" super hero movies so I think I have some idea of where this is all headed
Mark 2000 Farinas8So, I was right. This was ideological. Ellison couldn’t have a black focused Laterns that talks about racial inequity and power dynamics and a Superman that saves Palestinian analogues from mass murder.
Peldrigal6But Ellison has no taste...
Niri Neon3im so goshdarned sad about this. Ultimately, I prefer DC over Marvel, when it comes to their roster of characters and the stories they COULD tell. But 20 years of mismanagement in the face of the MCU has left us with disparate franchises that refuse to line up or gain the right audience. CUZ MONEY.
Neeraj2They have to make 30 movies per year so that wasn't gonna happen with Gunn and Safran...plus quality will be severely downgraded as a result... otherwise they'll have to pay penalty..not sure how long they keep that count going or just pay penalty
Alex Ries138“more in line with Ellison’s broader tastes.” lol
PlasticManifesto18“more in line with Ellison’s broader tastes.” means Superman had too many people of color in it. Trump boot lickers.
Michael Love4Fun fact: Superman becomes public domain in 7 years and 2 months (though much of the mythology will take a bit longer)
