Supergirl Producer Says David Ellison Is a 'Big Fan' of DC Studios As Paramount and Warner Bros Merger Looms

David Ellison, the CEO of Paramount Skydance, is simply a large instrumentality of what DC Studios is cooking up.

When speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, Supergirl shaper Lars P. Winther stated that David Ellison has already visited the acceptable of Man of Tomorrow, the Superman sequel from James Gunn, which has been filming for astir 2 months and volition diagnostic Supergirl.

“He came to Trilith [Studios] already. That’s wherever we sprout each our movies that James [Gunn] directs,” Winther said. “He came to Atlanta, we showed him everything, and we’re having discussions with him.”

The shaper went connected to enactment that Ellison is "open to" what DC is doing and is simply a "big fan," suggesting determination is nary crushed to rise immoderate alarms.

“He’s beauteous unfastened to what we’re doing. We bash person a slate and a batch of it — obviously, Clayface is already coming out. We already person the Lanterns TV show. On those things, the train’s near the station. So we’re good. But he’s a large fan, he’s been large with us. He’s giving america benignant of what we want. So far, everything’s good.”

Ellison is presently trying to merge Paramount with Warner Bros., the genitor institution of DC. Some feared that Ellison mightiness propulsion the plug connected the existent iteration of DC successful an effort to pinch pennies oregon make thing that is aligned with what a caller authorities would want. So far, Ellison has yet to bespeak that publicly, but thing is ever disconnected the array erstwhile idiosyncratic is spending billions of dollars to instrumentality power of a company.

The caller epoch of DC has truly lone conscionable begun. 2025's Superman was the archetypal movie successful the caller DC universe, and Supergirl, releasing successful theaters this weekend, volition beryllium the second. There are a fewer much projects connected the skyline with Clayface and Lanterns aboriginal this year, arsenic good arsenic The Batman Part II and Man of Tomorrow successful 2027. Beyond that, things are a spot fuzzier.

Given Warner Bros spent a decennary trying to get the erstwhile DC beingness nether power with assorted powerfulness struggles betwixt executives, directors, and different creatives, it seems similar it would beryllium omniscient to conscionable permission things unsocial alternatively than reboot the full happening erstwhile again. Even if immoderate things request to change, it's wide that tons of meddling and an inconsistent imaginativeness lone does much harm to a brand.

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