Abrams and writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, as has been reported. continues to develop a Black Superman project from producer J.J. We believe that’s the position that Safran will find himself in at some point next year. While Gunn has, of course, said that no director has been chosen for the Superman movie, we respectfully don’t buy that, as all signs point in this direction. So while he was on set calling “ Action!” and “ Cut!,” who was back at the DreamWorks offices minding the store and running the company? Katzenberg and Geffen. And yes, though Spielberg is renowned for being a master multitasker, he’s still only one man. He launched a brand new studio, DreamWorks SKG, with directed Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen… and then he went off to direct The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Amistad, and Saving Private Ryan back-to-back-to-back. See, a couple of decades ago, a filmmaker by the name of Steven Spielberg did this very thing.
The idea of him handing that script off to another director so he can cosplay “executive” is as likely as Superman wearing a kryptonite belly ring. The very one that he just so happens to be writing right now. Safran is an accomplished producer with experience greasing the wheels and keeping them turning - maintaining the budget, sticking to their predetermined shooting schedule, dealing with meddling studio execs, and keeping the cast and crew fed and watered - just as any capable producer worth their salt would.īut why did Safran, specifically, turn his back on a lucrative producing career to play Robin to Gunn’s Batman as the other head of DC Studios? It’s because, as I suspect, Safran is not a sidekick at all, but rather there to actually run the company when his partner-in-crime is (up, up, and) “away” from the studio and preoccupied with doing the thing he now seems born to do - direct a Superman movie. That question is by absolutely no means a putdown. With Gunn clearly positioned as the face of DC Studios, it begs the question of why, exactly, Safran is there. James Gunn on the set of The Suicide Squad/Warner Bros.
Ask Marvel Studios’ big-cheese Kevin Feige, who Gunn has no question taken off-the-record advice from, or Kathleen Kennedy, who has anchored Lucasfilm for a decade now, to name just two examples of successful companies operative under the directive of a single creative leader (not that they don’t rely on other trusted voices). Of course, these days, only two opinions matter - Gunn’s and Safran’s - even though running DC Studios is not necessarily a two-person job. Just go on Twitter, Facebook, or any fan forum. With that kind of lineage, everyone is going to have their own opinion of what should be done with Superman. He is a pop-culture icon known to and beloved by our grandparents, our parents, and now, us… and eventually our kids, too. In a nation of immigrants, Superman represents the ultimate immigrant story, one that has been passed down from one generation to the next since his first appearance in Action Comics #1 way back in 1938. Superman is ingrained in our very culture, as the character is a key part of our own American mythology. They’re also words that should be taken to heart by the mystery filmmaker who will ultimately direct the latest cinematic incarnation of Superman for DC Studios under the leadership of its newly-installed CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran. Now, regardless of how one feels about that film - or certainly its problematic director - truer words have never been spoken. That’s a quote from Superman Returns director Bryan Singer in the documentary Look Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman. So, at some point, you have to just choose the things that meant something to you.”
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