{"id":196287,"date":"2025-11-23T16:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T16:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/196287\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T16:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T16:55:09","slug":"superman-director-james-gunn-posts-touching-message-for-dc-studios-co-ceo-peter-safran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/196287\/","title":{"rendered":"SUPERMAN Director James Gunn Posts Touching Message For DC Studios Co-CEO Peter Safran"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warner Bros. Discovery put James Gunn and Peter Safran in charge of DC Studios. Together, Gunn and Safran have shepherded the nascent DCU, which is so far comprised of Creature Commandos, Superman, and Peacemaker Season 2. But, long before they started steering the DC ship, the two executives were good friends. The pair\u00a0are longtime collaborators, with Safran being\u00a0Gunn’s manager since very early in the director’s career.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The duo shares\u00a0a strong friendship with each other, and in celebration of Safran’s birthday, Gunn posted\u00a0a sweet message<\/a>\u00a0about\u00a0him\u00a0on Threads. The Superman and Man of Tomorrow helmer\u00a0detailed\u00a0their longtime bond\u00a0and shared\u00a0pictures of them over the years. The message reads:\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Happy Birthday to my friend and partner, Peter Safran. Kind, intelligent, and one of the funniest guys I know. I can’t imagine running DC Studios\u2014and wouldn’t\u2014with anyone else. Some select photos over the years: <\/strong><\/p>\n

The earliest shot of the two of us I could find, probably 1998, on the sets of Humanzee and Sparky & Mikaela, on the set of The Belko Experiment, at Mikaela Hoover’s birthday long ago, on the set of Guardians Vol. 2, Peter speaking at my wedding rehearsal dinner,\u00a0in our ugly office bathroom with the DC brain trust, in Svalbard shooting Superman, Peter putting his life on the line and saving Ozu when Ozu jumped a fence and found himself trapped on the edge of a five hundred foot cliff at a rental in Santa Barbara (really), in the Philippines with the Superman gang, celebrating his birthday a couple weeks ago in the UK with our Jenn and Natalia. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s to many more birthdays and many more years of big laughs and great movies!”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Though Safran has largely stayed behind the scenes in his role as co-CEO, Gunn constantly credits\u00a0him for his contributions to the studio and the franchise as a whole. In fact, he’s made it clear that, had the DC Studios position not also been offered to Safran, he would not have accepted the job. During a 2023\u00a0appearance<\/a> on\u00a0Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum, for example,\u00a0Gunn was asked what his reaction was to being offered to run DC Studios.<\/p>\n

The director revealed he was initially hesitant to accept such an undertaking, given that it would have only been him running the studio:\u00a0<\/p>\n

“When it first came up, I was, like… And it didn’t come up. Nobody came to me and said, ‘Do you want to run DC?’ But it came to me very early in the process, ‘Would that be something you would\u00a0be interested in?’\u2014this is\u00a0very early. And I was like, “Nah, I don’t think so.” The reasons were because it was me, and it wasn’t me and Peter [Safran]. What made it appealing to me eventually was… because they also went to Peter early on, and he was like, same way. But what eventually became appealing to me was doing it with Peter.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gunn went on to discuss his friendship with Safran, explaining the longtime producer\u00a0had been his manager since he first\u00a0arrived in Los Angeles. He also praised their working relationship, stating they never get in each other’s way, and that they trust each other’s\u00a0professional opinions:\u00a0<\/p>\n

“So, Peter Safran has been… He’s my manager, he’s been my manager since I first moved to LA, back when he was the president of Brillstein-Grey [Management]. We’re very close friends, we’ve traveled\u00a0together, we hang\u00a0out with our familities\u00a0together… close friends. And we’ve gotten [in] maybe one or two arguments over\u00a0the past 25 years of working together. We work together exceptionally well, we never step on each other’s toes.\u00a0I respect his opinion completely about many things, and he respects my opinion about creative stuff.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Though James Gunn is the face of the company, and his many accomplishments are well known, Safran himself has an impressive track record as a producer. Throughout his time in Hollywood, he has produced a number of hit films and franchises, including The Conjuring, The Conjuring 2, Aquaman and Shazam!.<\/p>\n

Hollywood is a though business, and finding lifelong friends within it\u00a0can be a difficult task. As such, it’s endearing to know that Gunn and Safran found each other, and have formed a personal and working relationship that now allows them to run a studio together.\u00a0<\/p>\n

DC Studios’ next film, Supergirl, flies into theaters on June\u00a026, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What did you think about Gunn’s comments regarding Peter Safran? What’s been your favorite DC Studios project so far? Drop your thoughts in the comments!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Discovery put James Gunn and Peter Safran in charge of DC Studios. Together, Gunn and Safran…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[109120,1981,8531,18,117,19,17,927,1891,327,20852,15249,928],"class_list":{"0":"post-196287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-creature-commandos","9":"tag-dc-studios","10":"tag-dcu","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-james-gunn","16":"tag-marvel-studios","17":"tag-movies","18":"tag-peacemaker-season-2","19":"tag-peter-safran","20":"tag-superman"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115600066010486375","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}