James Gunn and Peter Safran Step Down as Heads of DC Studios

Evening News · Monday 9 November 2026

James Gunn and Peter Safran are stepping down as the heads of DC Studios after four years, with former Marvel Studios executive Jeremy Latcham taking charge from 1 December. Also tonight: Vera Farmiga returns to horror as an occult detective in Inferno, the BBC orders The Other Elliot Sister from the team behind The Other Bennet Sister, Jonathan Bailey and Bill Nighy team up for Insomniac City, and we remember Chilean director Sebastián Lelio.

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James Gunn and Peter Safran step down at DC Studios as Jeremy Latcham takes over

What happened: DC’s new parent company Skydance announced on Monday 9 November that James Gunn and Peter Safran are leaving their posts as co-chairmen and co-CEOs of DC Studios. Both will stay on as producers of DC projects and return to full-time creative work
Who takes over: Jeremy Latcham, formerly senior vice president of production and development at Marvel Studios, becomes President and Chief Creative Officer of DC Studios on 1 December. He produced Iron Man, The Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy and Spider-Man: Homecoming, and will run DC’s film, television and animation slate
A new reporting line: Deadline reports that DC will now report to Skydance Motion Picture Group co-chairs Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein, like Warner Bros’ other film labels, rather than straight to the chief executive
What they said: Gunn and Safran said they had “helped restore Superman to the heart of DC” and were excited to return to “telling the stories we love, including the next chapter of Clark and Lex’s journey in Man of Tomorrow”. Latcham called leading DC “a massive responsibility that I do not take lightly”
Their record: Deadline points to Superman, Peacemaker, Lanterns and Clayface, now at $109 million worldwide, as successes, and to Supergirl, which grossed $126.4 million on a net cost of $186 million, as the big miss
UK availability: Man of Tomorrow, now in post-production, opens in US cinemas on 9 July 2027; UK date not yet confirmed

Gunn keeps making Man of Tomorrow, so the Superman story carries on, but anything further out is now Latcham’s call. Our Clayface Super Review and latest Superhero Round-Up show where the DC slate stood before today.

Vera Farmiga returns to horror as an occult detective in Inferno

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What happened: The Conjuring star Vera Farmiga will star in and produce the supernatural horror Inferno, Variety reported on 9 November. Bryan Hill (Titans) writes and directs
The story: It is built around the long-rumoured special division of Scotland Yard that investigates the occult. Farmiga plays a former detective whose hunt for a killer drags her back into the Black Branch and on the trail of the paranormal terror she thought she had escaped
The pitch: Manifest Pictures compares it to the procedural tension of Manhunter and the performance-led horror of The Exorcist and Longlegs. Filming is due to start in late spring
UK availability: UK date not yet confirmed

A Scotland Yard occult unit is a great hook for Farmiga, who spent more than a decade facing demons as Lorraine Warren. More new horror heading into the market was in our 7 November Morning News.

The BBC orders The Other Elliot Sister after The Other Bennet Sister’s success

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What happened: The BBC and BritBox have commissioned The Other Elliot Sister, a ten-part drama from Bad Wolf, the BBC announced on 9 November
The story: It moves Elizabeth Elliot, the vain eldest sister on the edges of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, to the centre of her own story. Sarah Quintrell, who wrote The Other Bennet Sister, adapts Janice Hadlow’s forthcoming novel
Why now: The Other Bennet Sister has been the biggest new drama across all UK channels and streamers since March 2025, Deadline reports, and returns with three Christmas specials. BritBox is launching a new “Austen Untold” anthology banner with it
UK availability: Filming starts in 2027 for BBC One and BBC iPlayer; UK date not yet confirmed

Elizabeth Elliot is a cold, snobbish figure in the novel, so making her sympathetic will be a bigger challenge than Mary Bennet. The Bennet specials are in our Christmas TV 2026 guide, and Netflix’s new Pride and Prejudice is also on the way.

Jonathan Bailey and Bill Nighy to star in Oliver Sacks love story Insomniac City

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What happened: Jonathan Bailey (Bridgerton) and Bill Nighy (Living) will star in Insomniac City for director Dominic Cooke (On Chesil Beach), Deadline reported on 9 November
The story: It adapts Bill Hayes’ 2017 memoir about moving to New York after a devastating loss and falling in love with the neurologist and author Oliver Sacks, writer of Awakenings. Hayes and Cooke wrote the script
Who’s making it: UK-Australian company Brouhaha Entertainment produces with Bailey, Mike Goodridge and Gabrielle Tana. Altitude is selling it to buyers at the American Film Market this week
UK availability: No filming or release dates yet; UK date not yet confirmed

Nighy as Sacks is inspired casting, and Bailey has shown in Fellow Travelers how well he plays a love story across decades.

Sebastián Lelio, director of A Fantastic Woman, dies at 52

What happened: The Chilean film-maker died at his home in Santiago, his partner Amalia Kassai announced on Friday 6 November. No cause of death was given, The Guardian reported
His films: Gloria (2013) won Paulina García the best actress prize at Berlin, and A Fantastic Woman became the first Chilean film to win the Oscar for best international feature. He then made the London-set Disobedience with Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams, Gloria Bell with Julianne Moore and The Wonder with Florence Pugh
Last film: His final feature was the 2025 musical protest drama The Wave, which premiered at Cannes
UK availability: The Wonder is streaming on Netflix in the UK

Lelio wrote women who refused to disappear, and The Wonder is the easiest place to start if you have never seen his work.

Movieversalfilm Takeaway

DC is starting another new era, this time under a Marvel veteran, while Gunn and Safran go back to making films. British drama fans get more Austen from the BBC, horror fans get Vera Farmiga back in the dark, and the film world has lost one of its most humane directors. On Bond, nothing has changed since this morning: no actor has been confirmed.

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