Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav praised “Guardians of the Galaxy” director James Gunn during MoffettNathanson’s inaugural Technology, Media & Telecom Conference on Thursday.
“What we tried to do is get really great leadership. The philosophy of our company is we don’t want people to go to meetings, we want the people to do the work,” Zaslav said. “So when I was meeting with James Gunn and he was writing ‘Superman’ and he had written ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ — which is now a big hit for Marvel, which we’re happy about because Gunn wrote that movie and directed that movie — I’m looking at it and I’m thinking to myself, ‘Why isn’t this guy running [DC]?’ He grew up his whole life with DC, his whole life with these DC characters and he knows every one of them, they’re his family.