With Latcham coming on board (THR reports he planned to speak with Gunn, whom he’d long ago championed as Marvel’s choice to direct Guardians Of The Galaxy), the future of the Superman franchise, and the planned slate of DC Studios features and series, is now in flux. Latcham is said to have a different creative temperament than Gunn, a more faith-focused producer whose recent forays into big-budget tentpoles like Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and the upcoming Naruto film at Lionsgate belie a desire to pursue more uplifting projects, such as the Wright Brothers biopic Flyer and the Biblical TV series House Of David. Latcham’s former Marvel co-workers and current Skydance Motion Picture Group co-chairs, Josh Greenstein and Dana Goldberg (who worked with Latcham on Iron Man and Spider-Man: Homecoming, among others), are said to have reached out to the producer earlier this fall about joining the Skydance/DC fold.
Since Gunn and Safran still have irons in the Skydance fires—both are executive producers on Matt Reeves’ The Batman: Part II, and Man Of Tomorrow and the HBO Max series The People V. Gorilla Grodd are still on the way—there’s a chance that David Corenswet’s Superman and Rachel Brosnahan’s Lois Lane will remain the face of this still-young DC Universe. And if there’s any good news to glean from this development, sources close to Gunn say the director is happy to refocus on the creative side of things once more—which aligns with a social media announcement he made on Monday confirming the DC shakeup. “I will miss the people around me, and I will miss being the co-caretaker of these great characters, but I’m also incredibly relieved and excited to get back to pure filmmaking,” he wrote.
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