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If you are a fan of DC characters, then it must feel like you just can’t catch a break.
First, you had to sit there and watch the great rivals at Marvel build an unprecedented connected universe, then you have to hold your head in your hands as top-down tinkering from Warner Bros. drove the DC equivalent right into the shitter.
Just as something like a single vision with a coherent plan was starting to emerge, now comes news that one of the front runners for the purchase of Warner Bros. wants to start interfering again.
Peter Safari and James Gunn’s control of DC Studios is near total. As long as they hit their numbers, they get full say over just about everything.
This was part of the deal in accepting the roles in the first place, as Warner Bros. went knocking on doors around Hollywood to fid their equivalents of Kevin Feige.
Paramount Skydance is said to be favorite to win the bidding for Warner Bros. having followed Comcast into tapping up Middle Eastern wealth funds to boost their bid.
An unconfirmed report via Puck News claims that, if Paramount Skydance does win out, they may be taking a closer look at the Safran and Gunn deal.
This could mean they no longer have absolute final say over directors, writers and talent.
Paramount Pictures co-chair Josh Greenstein is said to be behind the direction of travel, having decided he wants to court Weapons director Zach Cregger to make a DC movie if they are successful with their bid.
Cregger had written a DC-based story as a personal project, and it is likely this that was the centre of the conversation.
The new DCU gathers pace, with Superman, Creature Commandos and Peacemaker Season 2 all done, Lanterns, Clayface and Supergirl next year, and Man Of Tomorrow the year after that.
Any DC Studios focussed changes to Safari and Gunn’s influence is likely to require contractual changes, which means there is a very real possibility that they could just tell the incoming leadership team to go whistle, and then just walk away.
Ain’t Hollywood marvellous?
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