DC Will Have 10-Year Plan Akin to Marvel’s Playbook, Says David Zaslav - Hollywood Reporter

Discovery made the stunning move to cancel the HBO Max film Batgirl, an unapologetic CEO David Zaslav sought to reassure Wall Street there is a cohesive plan for the future of DC.

“You look at Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman — these are brands that are known everywhere in the world,” Zaslav said during an earnings call Thursday.

We’ve restructured the business where we are going to focus, where there is going to be a team with a 10-year plan focusing just on DC.

“As part of that, we are going to focus on quality.

We are not going to release any film before it’s ready.

Executive Walter Hamada took the reins of DC Films in 2018 and has been plotting out a number of films — including several for HBO Max to meet the mandate of then-WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar.

Zaslav touted a number of DC films coming up, including Black Adam and Shazam.

We think they are terrific, and we think we can make them even better,” Zaslav said in terms of marketing and distributing the upcoming films, which also include The Flash, starring controversial actor Ezra Miller.

The move has sparked jitters that other films could follow, with Blue Beetle filmmaker Angel Manuel Soto liking tweets asking Warners to protect his DC film, which was initially developed for HBO Max before being upgraded to theatrical

Zaslav said that expensive films for streaming did not make economic sense

But also, our job is to protect the DC brand, and that’s what we’re going to do.”