00:00:34.000And the reality is that, as I've said before, I'm a DC, not a Marvel guy.
00:00:38.000And that means that I don't care that much about the Avengers, but Batman, Superman, my boys.
00:00:43.000So when you start to pervert the legacy of DC with a bunch of AI schlock, a bunch of slop writing, you end up with a bunch of bad movies.
00:00:53.000So now it turns out, according to Variety, in a surprise executive shuffle, James Gunn and Peter Safran are stepping down as CEOs and chairman of DC Studios.
00:01:00.000They'll be replaced by Jeremy Latcham, who will serve as president and chief creative officer.
00:01:04.000Their exit is unexpected because they were named as part of David Ellison's business leadership team at the newly renamed Skydance when Paramount's $111 billion acquisition of Warner Brothers Discovery closed in October.
00:01:14.000After four years as heads of DC, resetting the studio's comic book division to mixed commercial results, Gunn and Saffron will return full time to creative work.
00:01:22.000So James Gunn put out a couple of statements along these lines.
00:01:27.000Thanks to all of you who have supported me and Peter in our time as heads of DC Studios.
00:01:31.000When I was a kid growing up in Manchester, Missouri, I used to write and draw my own comics with a mix of DC Comics characters and my own characters.
00:01:36.000Having full access to these characters to do whatever we wanted has been a dream come true.
00:01:40.000I didn't know if I wanted this job when it was offered to me, but I just couldn't pass up the unique opportunity.
00:01:45.000There have been so many highs along the way, releasing Superman and Clayface, making Peacemaker, reading the scripts of To The People Versus, the entire process of Man of Tomorrow, which thus far has been the best filmmaking experience in my life, and numerous other moments.
00:01:58.000The highest of the highs have been all the talented and wonderful people I've worked with and grown to love, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
00:02:04.000But what only the closest people to me have known over the past four years is my time at DC Studios has been trying to say the least.
00:02:09.000I dislike the at times corporate nature of the job.
00:02:12.000I'm always a very hard worker, but as a filmmaker, I would at least get to take short breaks to unwind.
00:02:16.000And I've stolen even that time from both myself and my loved ones over the past four years.
00:02:20.000And the thing my ADHD hyperfocus has had the most difficulty with has been dividing my time between projects I'm incredibly passionate about and the ones I'm not so much, and all the things I have to do as a studio head.
00:02:29.000So, yes, 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.
00:02:37.000That's not to say Peter and I are immediately done with DC or superheroes.
00:02:39.000We have Man of Tomorrow out this summer.
00:02:41.000And we've just been engaged in another DC project, which I'm writing, and we'll see where it goes after that.
00:02:45.000And of course, the characters we set up will live on.
00:02:49.000We'll get to more on this in just a second.
00:02:50.000First, let's talk about protecting your private property.
00:02:53.000So you tend to think, well, you know, the way that somebody gets robbed is you're in your house or not home, somebody breaks in, they go through your safe, they take your stuff.
00:03:00.000But it turns out that your most valuable asset is almost undoubtedly your home itself.
00:03:05.000And nobody's going to like jack that up and then just take it on a truck somewhere.
00:03:08.000But what they can do is they can participate in what's called home title theft.
00:03:13.000Basically, they go down to the local property office.
00:03:15.000And then they mess around with your documents and then they use those documents to access the value of your home.
00:04:10.000He decided that Mind Vomit was just going to be a substitute for sort of the classicism of Superman.
00:04:15.000Okay, Superman and Batman are the classic superheroes, one of them obviously having all the powers and one having none.
00:04:23.000And there's a certain sort of gravitas that DC has that Marvel does not.
00:04:28.000And this is why I always Found myself a bigger fan of what Zack Snyder did in the Snyderverse than anything that James Gunn was trying to do, which is sort of make it light and happy dappy do and Guardians of the Galaxy light and all this kind of stuff.
00:05:04.000The movie had a lot more to recommend it than whatever James Gunn was doing.
00:05:07.000When you have a giant eyeball wandering around in the background of a love scene between Clark and Lois, just like zapping things, when you have sort of the gross out-body humor invading a Superman film, and when the hero of the Superman film is not Superman or Lois Lane, it's like a tertiary character, that's just bad script writing.
00:05:26.000So I'm very pleased to see James Gunn go.
00:05:28.000Again, Superman Man of Tomorrow is set to hit theaters July 9th, 2027.
00:05:40.000Again, I'm hoping that they fix some of the character mistakes that they made with the first one.
00:05:46.000And the big problem with the first Batman, in sort of a nutshell, is that they say that Batman as a character is bad and vengeance driven, and he needs to be altruistic, and he's much more about helping people than harming the bad guys, which is, of course, not really Batman's thing.
00:06:17.000He was an executive producer of The Avengers.
00:06:19.000He was an executive producer on the original Guardians of the Galaxy, executive producer on Avengers Age of Ultron, and also an executive producer on Spider Man Homecoming.
00:06:29.000I think, honestly, people need to stop going to the Marvel universe to draw for the DC universe.
00:06:35.000These are two separate universes, and trying to take the mood of Marvel and apply it to DC.
00:06:39.000Is a mistake just the way that it would be a mistake to sort of take the mood of DC and apply it to Marvel.
00:06:43.000The most obvious example of that, by the way, would be the sort of second Spider Man reset.
00:06:47.000You have the original Tobey Maguire that are sort of whimsical, and then you have the ones with Andrew Garfield, and that's much more kind of DC like because it's more mythos and dark and all of that.
00:06:57.000But Spider Man is supposed to be Tom Holland and Tobey Maguire, it's supposed to be kind of more carefree.
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00:07:30.000Father, I used to feel Christ, I cannot feel anything here.
00:07:47.000They take me out of my bed and they brought me here and they tell me nothing.