A report now says Skydance is so worried that James Gunn’s Superman (2025) sequel, Man of Tomorrow, is a loser that it might not even warrant a theatrical release.
\n\nThe report adds that the best the studio is able to hope for is cutting its losses at $100 million.
\n\nUnceremoniously firing DC Studios’ co-CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran five months before their contract was up and eight months before Man of Tomorrow — which probably cost $300 million — was scheduled to hit theaters next July, is an insight into how little faith Skydance CEO David Ellison has in Man of Tomorrow.
\n\nJames Gunn arrives at the premiere of “Superman” on Monday, July 7, 2025, at TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
\n\nFiring Gunn and Safran is an unambiguous message that the cinematic universe the duo spent four years building is no more. It’s over, and that pulls the rug out from under everything in the pipeline, especially Man of Tomorrow.
\n\nBasically, the message is that since the Gunn Universe is dead, Man of Tomorrow doesn’t really matter. The movie is no longer a building block, a step toward something bigger. Worse still, it’s part of a…
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