Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav has been trying to find his very personal Kevin Feige to move up the DC franchise, and he might have discovered the person for the job. THR reported that Dan Lin, who has produced films comparable to Sherlock Holmes, The LEGO Film, It, and Aladdin, is in talks to take over DC Movies.
Walter Hamada, the present head of DC Movies, was near leaving earlier this month after he was blindsided by David Zaslav’s resolution to shelve the Batgirl film. Ought to Dan Lin’s deal shut, he would take management of not simply DC Movies, however each DC tv undertaking as nicely. He would report on to Zaslav, bypassing the heads of Warner Bros. Photos (Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy), HBO/HBO Max (Casey Bloys), and Warner Bros. TV (Channing Dungey). Former Disney CCO Alan Horn (who was president of Warner Bros. from 1999-2012) is a marketing consultant for Warner Bros. and is alleged to be Dan Lin’s “champion” for the DC Movies gig. Lin began his profession working for Warner Bros. below Alan Horn.
David Zaslav has huge plans for the DC Universe. Throughout Warner Bros. Discovery’s second-quarter earnings name, Zaslav claimed that they’ve carried out a reset of the DC Universe and have a ten-year plan within the works.
You take a look at Batman, Superman, Surprise Lady, Aquaman — these are manufacturers which can be identified in all places on the earth. We’ve got carried out a reset. We’ve restructured the enterprise the place we’re going to focus, the place there may be going to be a workforce with a ten-year plan focusing simply on DC. We consider we will construct a way more sustainable enterprise.
The Warner Bros. Discovery CEO hopes that the brand new DC Universe can use the construction of the MCU as an inspiration. “It’s similar to the construction Alan Horn, Bob Iger and Kevin Feige put collectively very successfully at Disney,” Zazlav stated. “We predict we will construct a a lot stronger, sustainable progress enterprise out of DC. As a part of that, we’re going to concentrate on high quality. We’re not going to launch any movie earlier than it’s prepared … DC is one thing we will make higher.” Warner Bros. hasn’t precisely been getting one of the best press recently due to their cost-cutting measures, however hopefully Dan Lin can be a very good factor for DC.
