New DC Studios co-CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran are immersed in planning for the next DC decade to tell a single great story modeled on Marvel.
They have been in office for just ten days and are already immersed in planning for the future of DC Studios. The co-CEOs James Gunn And Peter Safran they met the Warner Bros. Discovery team in a virtual meeting with David Zaslav to chart an _8 / 10 year plan for D_C.
For months, Zaslav has said he wanted the leaders to help DC become more like Marvel Studios, which is home to the most successful film franchise in history. In the virtual meeting, Peter Safran specified that DC will focus on telling a single great story.
“This is a unique opportunity to tell a great overall story”said Safran, known for producing Shazam! and Aquaman. “A beautiful big story through movies, TV games, live-action and animation.”
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James Gunn specified that he and Safran have begun working on a long-term plan to create that story:
“The opportunity to make DC better, as it should be, is why I took this job, because I know Peter and I can do it. We have spent the last two days with a group of some of the best minds in the business, the best writers in the industry who have begun to trace that eight to ten year plan that will involve cinema, TV, animation to tell these characters “.
“I love Superman and I love Batman. I love their interaction”James Gunn said earlier. “I love the ways they are the same and the ways they are completely different. “
Gunn and Safran will report directly to Zaslav, who told investors this week that he has spent a lot of time with the duo over the past few months. The two co-CEOs will replace Walter Hamada, who stepped down as president of DC Films last month after serving for four years.
During the virtual meeting, James Gunn addressed Zaslav directly saying: “I know you are doing all of this because you love these characters too, and you love the possibility and the hope they represent and that was clear to us from the start. We would never have accepted if it wasn’t so, so thank you.”