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James Gunn Biography

Date of Birth:
Aug 5, 1966Birth Place:
St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Biography

Screenwriter and director James Gunn applied his fondness for the comic book idiom -- as well as a healthy dash of irreverent humor -- to a host of popular genre films, including "Scooby-Doo" (2002), a remake of George A. Romero's "Dawn of the Dead" (2004), and the Marvel Cinematic Universe bockbuster "Guardians of the Galaxy" (2014). Born in St. Louis, Missouri on August 5, 1970, Gunn was raised in a large Irish Catholic family in the suburb of Manchester. As a child, he struggled to connect with his peers, but found solace in a huge comic book collection purchased for him by his father. From there, he began experimenting with Super 8 movies, which allowed him to experiment with early efforts in the horror genre. He briefly attended college but dropped out to play in a rock band. He also briefly supported himself as a hospital orderly in Tucson, Arizona while also writing and drawing comic strips for underground publications. Gunn completed his bachelor's degree at St. Loui

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James Gunn was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. At the age of twelve he began his filmmaking career with an eight-millimeter camera. Gunn is known primarily as a cult and horror film writer and director, having written 2004's "re-imagined" Dawn of the Dead and written and directed 2006's SLiTHER, two of the most critically acclaimed horror films of the past ten years. SLiTHER, in particular, was named by Rotten Tomatoes as one of the "Top Ten All-Time Best Reviewed Horror Films", it was named "The Best Horror film of 2006" by Rue Morgue Magazine, and James Gunn won a Saturn Award and a Fangoria Chainsaw Award for his work on the film. Gunn's other film work ranges from the cult classics "The Specials" and "Tromeo & Juliet" to mainstream fare such as the live-action Scooby-Doo movie franchise. In 2004, Gunn became the first screenwriter in cinema history to write back-to-back #1-for-the-weekend box office hits, with "Dawn of the Dead" on March 19, 2004 and "Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed&qu

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James Gunn

American filmmaker (born 1966)

For other people named James Gunn, see James Gunn (disambiguation).

James Francis Gunn Jr. (born August 5, 1966)^{[n 1]} is an American filmmaker. He began his career as a screenwriter in the mid-1990s, starting at Troma Entertainment with Tromeo and Juliet (1996). He then began working as a director, starting with the horror-comedy film Slither (2006), and moving to the superhero genre with Super (2010), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), The Suicide Squad (2021), and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023).

In 2022, Warner Bros. Discovery hired Gunn and Peter Safran to become co-chairmen and co-CEOs of DC Studios.^[1] Under DC Studios, Gunn will co-produce and executive produce every film and television series under the upcoming DC Universe (DCU) media franchise alongside Safran, which will act as a soft-reboot of the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). In the DCU, he is the creator of the series Creature Commandos (2024) and the writer-director of the upcoming film Sup