MARITAL STATUS
Professions Screenwriter , Producer , Director more
Nationality American
Birth August 5, 1966 (Saint-Louis, Missouri, United States)
BIOGRAPHY
From a young age, James Gunn had the cinema bug. At the age of 12, with his brother Sean , he made short films with his super 8 camera, with his favorite subject: zombies. It was therefore quite natural that he subsequently studied screenwriting at Columbia University.
His debut in cinema, James Gunn made it as a screenwriter. In the 1990s, he joined Lloyd Kauffman ‘s Troma Entertainment , a company renowned for its B series and other parody films, for which he wrote the script for Tromeo and Juliet , a subversive rewriting of the famous play. He then took on the superhero comedy The Specials , where he had a small role alongside Rob Lowe . The screenwriter’s writing talents and sense of self-deprecation did not go unnoticed: in 2002, a major Hollywood house required his services for the adaptation of the adventures of the dog detective Scooby-Doo and its sequel in 2004. The same year , he was entrusted with the reins of the screenplay for Army of the Dead , a remake of the terrifying Zombie (1978) by George A. Romero , brought to the screen by Zack Snyder .
Then screenwriter, actor and producer, James Gunn surprised by trying his hand at directing in 2006, with Horribilis , a crazy horror comedy starring Nathan Fillion and Elizabeth Banks facing a horde of alien molluscs. Satisfied with this experience, he signed the dark and bloody comedy Super and participated in the sketch film My Movie Project , for which he directed the Beezel segment .
In 2014, it was the consecration for James Gunn, who was appointed to direct the Marvel blockbuster Guardians of the Galaxy , a space opera mixing schoolboy humor and action and following a troop of extraordinary superheroes: themes that are no strangers to the filmmaker. Building on the success of the film, he returned for his sequel in 2017 which also proved to be very lucrative.
Due to slip-ups on social networks, James Gunn is fired by Disney as he begins writing Guardians of the Galaxy 3 . He then joined the DC team via the positions of screenwriter and director of The Suicide Squad , a sequel to Suicide Squad released in 2016. However, he was rehired, in 2019, to oversee the third opus of the adventures of Star Lord and his gang, which comes out in 2023.
At the same time, the native of Saint-Louis remains very active in the field of writing and production on the cinema and series side.
