The Lego Movie and This Producer Dan Lin is in talks to head the DC arm of Warner Bros. Discovery.
To call the state of Warner Bros. Discovery a mess might be an understatement. It all started with the company’s choice to set aside the DC HBO Max bat girl the movie and the hits kept rolling. Many shows and movies have been removed from HBO Max, supposedly so the company can deduct them from their taxes. As a result, the company’s value plummeted by $23 billion. Plus, the company delayed DC movies Shazam! Fury of the gods and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. It was apparently because they couldn’t afford to release any more movies that year outside of black adam. However, it is very possible that this is part of a longer term plan.
Earlier this month, Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav revealed that the company was trying to form a long-term plan for DC. This included coming up with a 10-year plan for all upcoming movies as well as finding a DC division head similar to what Marvel and Disney had with Kevin Feige. Now it looks like they found it at producer Dan Lin.
DC’s Kevin Feige?
Dan Lin is a producer whose resume dates back to the mid-2000s. His name apparently came up late in the search for a DC boss, but was defended by Alan Horn. He was a producer on many successful projects including, but not limited to, The Lego Movie, This, It: Chapter 2, sherlock holmes, The Lego Batman Movie, and many more. If the deal goes through, Dan Lin will report directly to CEO David Zaslav and have control of DC’s film and television properties. Current DC Films President Walter Hamada would leave his role when Lin took over.
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Source: The Hollywood Reporter
