The Two Studios of the Future: Megan and David Ellison’s Divergent Roads Through Hollywood
By Stephen Cyrus Sepher
Hollywood loves a dynasty.
But rarely do its heirs split the atom of the business so cleanly with one chasing permanence through power, the other through art. David and Megan Ellison, the children of Oracle founder Larry Ellison, have become mirror images in motion with two executives chasing the same idea from opposite directions: legacy.
The Heir Who Wanted to Fly David Ellison began in the cockpit — literally.
A licensed pilot, he was drawn to the thrill of machinery and motion before he was drawn to storytelling. His first on-screen role, in Flyboys (2006), wasn’t about performance. It was about perspective and understanding how systems, speed, and coordination create spectacle.
In 2006 he founded Skydance Media, and over the next decade engineered one of the most muscular portfolios in modern Hollywood: Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Top Gun: Maverick, Star Trek Into Darkness, World War Z.
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The Two Studios of the Future: Megan and David Ellison’s Divergent Roads Through Hollywood
By Stephen Cyrus Sepher
Hollywood loves a dynasty.
But rarely do its heirs split the atom of the business so cleanly with one chasing permanence through power, the other through art. David and Megan Ellison, the children of Oracle founder Larry Ellison, have become mirror images in motion with two executives chasing the same idea from opposite directions: legacy.
The Heir Who Wanted to Fly
David Ellison began in the cockpit — literally.
A licensed pilot, he was drawn to the thrill of machinery and motion before he was drawn to storytelling. His first on-screen role, in Flyboys (2006), wasn’t about performance. It was about perspective and understanding how systems, speed, and coordination create spectacle.
In 2006 he founded Skydance Media, and over the next decade engineered one of the most muscular portfolios in modern Hollywood: Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Top Gun: Maverick, Star Trek Into Darkness, World War Z.
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