When the outgoing head of WB-Discovery hired Gunn and Safran to run DC Studios, he promised that they would only ever have to report to him, bypassing the heads of Warner Bros. and WBTV.

The incoming heads of WB and WBTV don’t like this, and the head of Skydance isn’t interested in getting involved in the lower level decision making. They asked Gunn and Safran to report to the studio heads, they refused, and were then fired.