Did Warner Bros. Discovery C.E.O. David Zaslav pull off an executive coup? Or were our expectations for DC just so low, especially after his first pick, producer Dan Lin, didn’t work out? I can’t decide, but the industry and the fans seem to like James Gunn and Peter Safran running DC Studios. In Gunn, Zaz gets a filmmaker (Guardians of the Galaxy) with comic book bona fides, and he takes Gunn off the table for Marvel gigs (though WBD consultant Alan Horn must have chuckled at hiring the guy he once fired from Guardians 2 for bad tweets). And Safran, a producer who presents as the buttoned-down adult in the room, will likely be held accountable for the business, anyway. Still… the move raises a few questions:
1. What will the DC brand, and sensibility, become?
