James Gunn said Adria Arjona would be a great Wonder Woman. In three weeks it won't be his call

Gunn and producer Peter Safran have run DC Studios since November 2022, rebuilding DC's movies and shows into one connected universe, the DCU, with Superman as its flagship last year. On November 9, Skydance, the company formed by Paramount Skydance's merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, announced that both are stepping down as co-CEOs. The change takes effect December 1. Their replacement is Jeremy Latcham, a former Marvel Studios executive who worked on Iron Man, The Avengers and Gunn's own Guardians of the Galaxy. According to The Wall Street Journal, Gunn and Safran learned only days earlier that they were being replaced.

Which brings the Wonder Woman question back up.

What Gunn said about Adria Arjona

In June 2025, fans noticed Gunn had followed Arjona on Instagram and decided that meant she'd been cast. Asked about it by Extra, Gunn explained that they've been friends for years: Arjona's breakout role was in The Belko Experiment in 2016, which Gunn wrote and produced.

"I followed her then, I didn't just follow her," Gunn said. "She'd be a great Wonder Woman, by the way."

That same month, he told Entertainment Weekly that a Wonder Woman movie "is being written right now." In July 2025, DC hired Ana Nogueira, the screenwriter of Supergirl, to write it.

Then Arjona got cast anyway

In April 2026, Arjona officially joined Man of Tomorrow, Gunn's sequel to Superman. Her role is under wraps. The leading guess is Maxima, a royal from another planet who comes to Earth looking for a mate and decides Superman qualifies. Wonder Woman fans had a different guess.

In October, Frank Grillo, who plays Rick Flag Sr. in the DCU, reposted a fan image of Arjona in Wonder Woman armor. Gunn shut it down on Threads.

"I can assure you Frank doesn't know who Adria is playing in the DCU," Gunn wrote. "People have been making wayyyyyyyyyyyyy too much of this."

When people didn't believe him, he posted a screenshot of a text he'd sent Grillo: "You're going to disappoint people so badly!"

Wonder Woman is reportedly in Man of Tomorrow

This is where the Journal comes back in. Reporting on Gunn's exit, The Wall Street Journal's Ben Fritz wrote that "Gunn + Safran are debuting Wonder Woman in Man of Tomorrow." Fritz didn't say who plays her, and DC hasn't confirmed it.

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Man of Tomorrow finished filming in August. Gunn is still directing it, and it opens July 9, 2027. So if the Journal is right, Wonder Woman's DCU debut is already shot, and whoever plays her was cast while Gunn was still in charge.

Fritz also reported what the pair planned after that: Batman's DCU debut in The Brave and the Bold in 2028, and Gunn-directed Superman sequels building toward Justice League movies in 2029 and 2031.

Why it won't be his call

On December 1, Latcham becomes president and chief creative officer of DC Studios, overseeing film, television and animation. He reports to Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein, who co-chair Skydance's motion picture group. Nogueira's Wonder Woman script, the casting of a solo movie and every one of those dates now goes through him.

Gunn isn't leaving DC. He and Safran said they're "excited to return to what drew us to this job in the first place," and Gunn has a script on his desk.

"We've just been engaged on another DC project which I'm writing, and we'll see where it goes after that," Gunn wrote on Instagram.

Latcham's first day running DC Studios is December 1, 2026.

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