Walter Hamada, who has been the pinnacle of DC Movies at Warner Bros. since 2008, has left the corporate. Hamada started his profession at TriStar as an assistant, earlier than shifting to Warner Bros.’ New Line Cinema division in 2007. Whereas there, he served as a producer on some actually large movies, corresponding to The Conjuring sequence and It. He was largely concerned in horror movies from that point.
After Justice League got here out and bombed on the field workplace, Hamada stepped in to guide the DC division at Warner Bros. He made numerous the larger DC movies of latest historical past attainable, from Aquaman to Joker, which is the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time. Hamada was reportedly prepared to depart his place after the brand new management at Warner Bros. Discovery shelved the HBO Max film of Batgirl, however he remained on the job via the discharge of this week’s Black Adam, starring Dwayne Johnson because the DC antihero.
Warner Bros. Discovery head David Zaslav has said publicly that the studio goes to mannequin their ten-year plan for DC films after the MCU, and weirdly sufficient, it looks like they’ve already tried that, and it hasn’t fairly panned out. Making an attempt to emulate the success of Marvel does not actually appear to be a sustainable enterprise mannequin. There’s just one Kevin Feige in any case.
Regardless of Hamada’s departure, Warners has not but discovered a substitute to take cost of its DC Movies unit. Though there have been stories that The LEGO Film producer Dan Lin was in line assume command of the division, these articles turned out to be untimely, and Lin has since dropped out of rivalry for the job.
Actors Who Turned Down DC Roles
These main stars might have performed a few of your favourite DC Comics’ heroes onscreen. However all of them mentioned no for one purpose or one other.
