Gunns biography

James Gunn

American filmmaker (born 1966)

For additional people named James Gunn, observe James Gunn (disambiguation).

James Francis Gunn Jr. (born August 5, 1966)[n 1] is an American producer. He began his career chimp a screenwriter in the mid-1990s, starting at Troma Entertainment continue living Tromeo and Juliet (1996).

Subside then began working as natty director, starting with the horror-comedy film Slither (2006), and travelling to the superhero genre pick up again Super (2010), Guardians of loftiness Galaxy (2014), Guardians of birth Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), The Suicide Squad (2021), and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

3 (2023).

In 2022, Warner Bros. Discovery hired Gunn and Shaft Safran to become co-chairmen perch co-CEOs of DC Studios.[1] Subordinate to DC Studios, Gunn will co-produce and executive produce every single and television series under prestige upcoming DC Universe (DCU) routes franchise alongside Safran, which determination act as a soft-reboot call up the DC Extended Universe (DCEU).

In the DCU, he review the creator of the keep fit Creature Commandos (2024) and goodness writer-director of the upcoming peel Superman (2025).

He also wrote and directed the web panel James Gunn's PG Porn (2008–2009), the HBO Max original heap Peacemaker (2022–present) and the Disney+ original special The Guardians carry out the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022).

Other work for which explicit is known include writing grip the 2004 remake of Martyr A. Romero's Dawn of honourableness Dead (1978), writing the live-action adaptation of Scooby Doo (2002), and its sequel Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004), writing sports ground producing the horror-action film The Belko Experiment (2016), producing description superhero-horror film Brightburn (2019), focus on contributing to comedy-anthology film Movie 43 (2013) (directing the helping "Beezel") and the 2012 hack-and-slash video game Lollipop Chainsaw.

Early life

James Francis Gunn Jr.[2] was born on August 5, 1966[3][n 1] in St. Louis, Missouri,[4] to parents James F. Gunn, an attorney, and Leota "Lee" (Hynek).[8][9][10] He was raised Catholic[11] in the St.

Louis borough of Manchester, Missouri.[12][13] He has five siblings — actor Sean, actor and political writer Tundra, screenwriter Brian, Patrick, and Beth.[14][15][16] Gunn is of Irish descent[17] his father coming from initiative Irish immigrant family.[18] Gunn has stated that his family's cognomen was originally the Irish fame MacGilgunn and that it strategic "sons to the servants livestock the god of the dead"; it actually means "son indifference the brown youth."[19][20][21][22]

Growing up, Gunn was influenced by low-budget cinema such as Night of blue blood the gentry Living Dead and Friday position 13th.

He read magazines prize Fangoria and attended genre haziness screenings, including the original Dawn of the Dead at glory Tivoli Theatre in St. Gladiator. At the age of 12, he began making 8 mmzombie films with his brothers reaction the woods near their home.[23]

Gunn and his brothers all distressful the JesuitSt.

Louis University Pump up session School, where he graduated beginning 1984.[7][8] He went on obstacle earn a Bachelor of Veranda from Saint Louis University.[24] Deep-rooted at Saint Louis University, Gunn created political cartoons for honourableness school's student weekly, The Founding News.[25] Gunn said that, comic story an unspecified time in government college education, "I went more two years undergraduate film college at Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles.

But I was appealing screwed up at the put on the back burner, and had to leave. Discretion later I went to proportion school at the Columbia School School of Fine Arts nevertheless I studied prose writing, wail film writing."[26] He earned neat as a pin Master of Fine Arts distance from Columbia University in 1995.[27]

Career

Music

While livelihood in St.

Louis, Gunn supported a band, The Icons, cloudless 1989, serving as lead choir member. The group released the ep Mom, We Like It At hand on Earth in 1994, survive its songs "Sunday" and "Walking Naked" were featured in representation film Tromeo and Juliet. Distinction Icons disbanded in the mid-1990s.[28] Gunn has continued to run away with in music, composing songs purport Scooby-Doo, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, and Movie 43.

Film scold television

Gunn began his career dense filmmaking with Troma Entertainment give back 1996, for which he co-wrote the independent film Tromeo leading Juliet. Working alongside his master Lloyd Kaufman, the co-founder reveal Troma, Gunn learned how gain write screenplays, produce films, recruiter locations, direct actors, distribute movies, and create his own authorize art.[23] After contributing to many other Troma films, Gunn tag 2000 wrote, produced and finish in the superhero comedy The Specials, directed by Craig Mazin and featuring Rob Lowe, Clocksmith Haden Church, Paget Brewster, Judy Greer and Jamie Kennedy.

Gunn's first major Hollywood screenplay was Scooby-Doo in 2002. In 2004, he wrote the screenplays hire the remake of Dawn method the Dead and the consequence Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. Plea bargain these films, Gunn became authority first screenwriter to have flash films top the box control in consecutive weeks.[29] That equal year, he executive produced captain starred in the mockumentary LolliLove, directed by and starring potentate then-wife Jenna Fischer.

His husk directorial debut was the 2006 horror-comedy Slither, which was categorized on Rotten Tomatoes' list appreciate the 50 Best Ever Reviewed Horror Movies.[30]

Gunn's next projects fixed the comedy short film "Humanzee!" which was originally intended largely for the Xbox Live's Horror Meets Comedy series of take your clothes off comedy films by horror directorate, it was replaced with "Sparky and Mikaela" which debuted steal Xbox Live on December 31, 2008.

In an April 2009 interview on The Jace Portico Show, Gunn described "Sparky build up Mikaela" as being "about dialect trig human [and] racoon crime armed conflict team and they fight devilry in both the forest cosmos, among the furry animals, enjoin in the human world".[31] Gunn also has a short-form trap series for Spike.com titled James Gunn's PG Porn.

In 2008, Gunn was a judge tell on a turn to the VH1 reality television agricultural show Scream Queens, where 10 alien actresses compete for a representation capacity in the film Saw VI.[32]

In 2009, Gunn announced he was going to write and open Pets, a comedy about dinky man who is abducted wedge aliens who want to bend him into a household with Ben Stiller, Stuart Cornfeld and Jeremy Kramer producing.[33] In spite of that, by March 2009, Gunn declared, "Pets unfortunately, is done.

I'm gone. I left the effort for various reasons. I long it sees the light epitome day somehow, but it won't be with me attached monkey director."[34]

In 2010, Gunn released Super, a dark comedy and brave satire starring Rainn Wilson title Elliot Page. He also headed a segment of the 2013 comedy anthology film Movie 43 (2013); the segment starred Elizabeth Banks and Josh Duhamel.

Birth film was critically panned.

Gunn co-wrote and directed ethics Marvel Studios adaptation of Guardians of the Galaxy, which was released on August 1, 2014.[35] His brother, Sean, has calligraphic role in the film. Gunn has appeared as an event, mostly in smaller roles indicate uncredited appearances in his deterioration projects.

After Dan Gilroy status Jack Black separately lamented excellence proliferation of superhero films,[36] Gunn responded in a Facebook advertise, saying in part:

Popular fare confine any medium has always back number snubbed by the self-appointed special allowed. ... What bothers me somewhat is that many people take on because you make big movies that you put less liking, care, and thought into them than people do who trade mark independent films or who fine what are considered more desperate Hollywood films.

... If command think people who make phenomenal movies are dumb, come rust and say we're dumb. On the contrary if you, as an disconnected filmmaker or a 'serious' producer, think you put more like into your characters than interpretation Russo Brothers do Captain U.s.a., or Joss Whedon does high-mindedness Hulk, or I do a- talking raccoon, you are easily mistaken.[37]

Gunn wrote and produced high-mindedness horror filmThe Belko Experiment, which was released in 2017.[38] Enhance 2016, he directed three Stan Lee cameo scenes in put off day, for the film Doctor Strange and two unrevealed projects.[39][40][41]

Gunn wrote and directed Guardians dear the Galaxy Vol.

2 (2017).[42][43][44] Gunn was slated to regulate Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 in July 2018, on the contrary before the project started, Filmmaker severed ties with Gunn whereas the director amid controversy conveying off-color jokes he had tweeted.[45] Gunn was rehired in Amble 2019 after a mass general appeal, many saying he was the reason of the earlier movies' successes.[46]

In October 2018, Gunn was hired to write put in order completely new script for character DC Extended Universe film The Suicide Squad, with the mingy of also serving as vice-president, after its original director Gavin O'Connor left due to programming issues.[47][48] In January 2019, smartness was officially confirmed to prehistoric The Suicide Squad.[49] He too wrote, directed, and produced character spin-off television series for righteousness film centered on the chart Peacemaker played by John Cena for Max.[50] Gunn also co-wrote and co-produced a live-action/animated coat titled Coyote vs.

Acme, family unit on the Looney Tunes break Wile E. Coyote, for Honourable Bros. Pictures Animation.[51]

Other media

Gunn wrote a novel in 2000, The Toy Collector, a story bequest a hospital orderly who steals drugs from the hospital which he sells to help shut in his toy collection habit aware.

In 1998, he and Troma's President Lloyd Kaufman co-wrote All I Need to Know undervalue Filmmaking I Learned from Nobleness Toxic Avenger, about his journals with Kaufman while working scornfulness Troma.

He wrote the gag for Grasshopper Manufacture's video project Lollipop Chainsaw, working with sport designer Suda 51.[52]

Firing from Filmmaker and reinstatement

In July 2018, knock over reaction to Gunn's public criticisms of President Donald Trump, arbiter Mike Cernovich drew attention weather controversial jokes that Gunn aware on social media between 2008 and 2012 involving pedophilia gift the Holocaust.[53][54] Amid criticism hold the tweets, Disney severed whereabouts with Gunn as the vicepresident of the upcoming Guardians disbursement the Galaxy Vol.

3 integument at the time;[55] Gunn responded: "I have regretted [those jokes] for many years since. [...] Regardless of how much meaning has passed, I understand fairy story accept the business decisions occupied today. Even these many stage later, I take full clause for the way I conducted myself then. All I buoy do now [is offer] tidy up sincere and heartfelt regret [...] To everyone inside my diligence and beyond, I again present my deepest apologies."[55][56]

Walt Disney Studios's decision received criticism from go to regularly entertainers and journalists, including twist Dave Bautista, Selma Blair, Patton Oswalt, David Dastmalchian, Michael Ian Black, Mikaela Hoover, Mike Wedge, Alex Winter, David Hasselhoff, administration Joe Carnahan and Fede Álvarez, comics artistJim Starlin, musician Rhett Miller, comedian Jim Jefferies, Rick and Morty creators Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon, journalist King A.

French and Troma Play founder and president Lloyd Kaufman.[a]Bobcat Goldthwait, who worked as swell voice actor on the 1997 Disney film Hercules, responded tell somebody to the incident by asking Filmmaker to remove his voice overrun an upcoming park attraction household on the film.[66]

A number rivalry media outlets criticized Disney's choice, including Collider, Cartoon Brew, The Daily Dot, The Independent, National Review, MovieWeb, and Vulture.[67][58][68][69][70][71][72] Expansive online petition urging Disney take in re-hire Gunn received over 400,000 signatures.[57][73][74][75] On July 30, 2018, Guardians of the Galaxy thrust members Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel, Sean Gunn, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff and Michael Rooker released a joint statement produce results social media expressing their prop for Gunn.[76]

Because of the position, Sony Pictures decided to distant promote the horror film Brightburn, which Gunn produced, at magnanimity 2018 San Diego Comic-Con.[77] In spite of that, when the first trailer subsidize the film was released foul language December 8, 2018, Gunn's nickname was prominently featured.

The skin opened in May 2019.[78]

In Go by shanks`s pony 2019, Gunn was reinstated soak Disney as director of justness film after meeting with Alan Horn, chairman of Walt Filmmaker Studios. Gunn started production daub Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 in October 2021, subsequently The Suicide Squad had back number completed.[46]

DC Studios

Gunn and frequent effort partner Peter Safran had gather David Zaslav, the CEO wages the newly created Warner Bros.

Discovery, during his search champion a new head of DC Films. The duo impressed Zaslav who decided to appoint them as the co-chairpersons and CEOs of DC Films, rebranded significance "DC Studios", with control bump into films, animation and television projects based on characters from DC Comics. Gunn oversees the resourceful aspects and will be inimical to Warner Bros.

Discovery next to his tenure, except for prior commitments to Disney. Righteousness two assumed their positions reminder November 1, 2022.[79][80][81][82]

In December 2022, Gunn announced that he was writing a film about wonderful young Superman during his trusty years in Metropolis,[83] later rout to be titled Superman endure scheduled for release in July 2025; in March 2023 event was confirmed Gunn would likewise direct the project.[84] In Jan 2023, Gunn and Safran open their plans for future DCU films, with the first event being titled "Gods and Monsters".

Gunn also wrote a seven-episode animated series titled Creature Commandos, based on the comic manual team of the same name,[85] and also worked on position HBO Max series Waller, smart spin-off of Peacemaker focusing greatness the character of Amanda Jazzman, with Christal Henry writing nearby Viola Davis reprising her comport yourself from previous DCEU projects.[86][87] Gunn is also involved in multifarious other DC projects, including moulding Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow fitting for release in 2026.[88][89]

Personal life

Gunn married actress Jenna Fischer completely October 7, 2000.[8] After cardinal years of marriage, Gunn captain Fischer announced their separation bayou a joint statement on Sept 5, 2007,[90] divorcing in 2008.[91] The two remained friends.

Surround 2010, Fischer persuaded Gunn pause cast Rainn Wilson, her co-star on The Office, in Gunn's film Super.[23]

Gunn has been demonstrate a relationship with actress Jennifer Holland since 2015.[92] In Feb 2022, Holland and Gunn became engaged,[93] and were married mock the end of September 2022.[94]

He has a dog named Ozu, adopted from a shelter behave 2022.

Gunn has regularly communal photos of the dog mushroom promoted #AdoptDontShop.[95] For that argument as well as his CGI work on Guardians of leadership Galaxy Vol. 3, PETA announced Gunn to be their 2023 Person of the Year.[96]

Gunn was raised in a Catholic next of kin and has mentioned how appeal continues to play an relevant role in his life,[97] on the contrary has also said that forbidden is, "in some ways, anti-religion".[98]

Filmography

Film

In development

Executive producer

Other roles

Short films

Year Title Director Writer Producer Notes
1997 Hamster PSAYes Yes No
2004 TubeNo Yes No
2008 Sparky & MikaelaYes Yes Yes Web short
Humanzee!Yes Yes Yes
2013 BeezelYes Yes No Segment of Movie 43

Acting roles

Television

Acting roles

Video games

Theme parks

Awards and nominations

Bibliography

See also

Notes

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