Clueless DC Studios already blew its chance to be a true Marvel competitor

This is starting to get a bit sad.Down-in-the-dumps DC Studios is going back to the drawing board with their comic book franchise.Again.

Already!On Monday, Skydance — billionaire David Ellison’s company that recently completed its acquisition of Warner Bros.— announced that DC co-heads James Gunn and Peter Safran are getting the old heave-ho after just four years.Over the timespan of an undergrad degree, the pair released three films: “Superman” (itty bitty hit), “Supergirl” (floperoo) and last month’s “Clayface” (to be determined). They still have two more on the way: “Man of Tomorrow,” which Gunn recently wrapped production on, and “The Batman II,” starring Robert Pattinson.But who knows how involved they’ll be on those going forward, though.

Because on Dec.1, the shoved-aside duo will be replaced by Jeremy Latcham, the man who helped Kevin Feige turn the Marvel Cinematic Universe into a box-office behemoth for Disney.Happy Thanksgiving, boys!Latcham is a good hire.

Page Six Hollywood reports he’s uncommonly well-liked in the industry.And he understands and has proven success with congruity and mass appeal, whereas DC has for years been a temperamental roulette wheel of divergent styles that cater to the most unhinged of fandoms. There were Zack Snyder’s heinous marches through doom and gloom that wackos are so worrisomely passionate about, and Gunn’s reactionary cotton-candy pep that was fun, but didn’t make a splash. Meanwhile the universe-adjacent, Scorsese-inspired “Joker” movies with Joaquin Phoenix and the “Batman” crime noir series with Robert Pattinson did whatever the hell they wanted, for better or worse.And, oh, there were so many DOA duds: “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom,” “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” and “Black Adam,” among other films that caused me lasting emotional trauma.DC has never had much unity.

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