There’s a line buried in TheWrap‘s new Supergirl post-mortem worth flagging, because it lands exactly where our reporting has been since last fall.
In their breakdown of where DC goes after the flop, TheWrap cites a top agent who says James Gunn specifically should be nervous and predicts he won’t survive the change in ownership, even while expecting DC and its longtime executives to endure.
“I don’t know how nervous DC is, but certainly James Gunn should be nervous,” the agent said. “There will always be a DC and the current execs have survived previous regime changes, but I don’t think Gunn survives.”
We reported that outcome eight months ago.
What CBN reported, and when
Back in October 2025, our Hollywood insiders told us James Gunn would be out as head of DC once Warner Bros. Discovery sells, with David Ellison’s incoming regime expected to put Mike De Luca in charge and start over.
In February, YouTuber John Campea predicted Gunn would ask out of his contract before the end of the year and land back at Marvel. We flagged it as matching what we said first.
In March, insiders at WonderCon told us Gunn could be gone even before Man of Tomorrow, making a “graceful” exit rather than getting pushed out after the merger closes.
Where the trades now line up
Puck‘s Matt Belloni made the call before the weekend even started. He framed Supergirl‘s flop as bad timing for Gunn and Safran, writing that their post-merger future running DC will likely be decided by David Ellison and the incoming Paramount team. That’s the same handoff our insiders described in October, with the new owner holding the call on Gunn.
TheWrap took it further. Their agent’s read that Gunn won’t survive is that same conclusion, stated as an outcome rather than an open question.
TheWrap also backs the other half of it, that the DC slate under Gunn has no real plan. They report DC’s next priority is a Bane/Deathstroke movie with no director or cast attached.
Our insiders have been saying the same, only sharper.
They told us Matt Reeves has concerns over Gunn getting to use Batman, with the word back that Gunn “has been all over the place, without a clear plan.”
And on the clearest example, we were told DC has no real take on Wonder Woman despite her role in Man of Tomorrow, with one insider calling her so generalized she’s “interchangeable with Maxima.”
That’s the same directionless slate TheWrap is now describing, and it tracks with what we heard earlier about DCU films stalling under Gunn, with directors walking rather than working under him.
The Official Story Is Catching Up
The people who cover this full time are now circling the same answer our insiders gave in October. It is the same pattern we saw with Daredevil: Born Again, where the trades eventually confirmed our retool scoop months after we broke it.
Now it is happening again with DC. First it was our insiders saying Gunn would be out once Warner Bros. Discovery sells. Then came Campea. Then came Belloni.
Now TheWrap has a top agent saying the quiet part out loud: Gunn should be nervous, and he may not survive the ownership change. Even Deadline has confirmed our insider reporting.
With Paramount’s deal expected to close in July, the call is getting close. The only real question now is how long the official version takes to catch up to what we reported in October.
