Inside the Downfall: Jason Schreier on Monoliths Closure and Leadership Failures

In a recent episode of the Kinda Funny Games podcast, Jason Schreier from Bloomberg made a guest appearance. The main focus of the discussion was the upheaval within the gaming division of Warner Bros. Discovery, which resulted in the closure of three studios: Player First Games, WB Games San Diego, and Monolith Productions. Schreier primarily concentrated on Monolith Productions, and we have highlighted the key points from his insights.

According to Schreier, it’s not entirely fair to place all the blame for these events on David Zaslav, the head of Warner Bros. Discovery. By the time he took on his current role, Monolith Productions had already been inactive for 4.5 years and had lost all its leadership.

To grasp the complete situation, one must look back a decade, during which WB Games made a series of poor decisions and struggled to establish a coherent vision. As a result, David Haddad, the president of WB Games who has been at the helm since 2015, is set to leave the company soon. More details on the ineffective leadership under Haddad can be found in another article by Schreier.

Greetings from 2021.

Jason Schreier