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James Francis Gunn Jr. (born August 5, 1966) 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 his longtime producer, Peter Safran, to serve as co-chairmen and co-CEOs of DC Studios. Under DC Studios, Gunn co-produced and executive produced every film and television series in the DC Universe (DCU) media franchise alongside Safran, which serves as a soft reboot of the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). In the DCU, he created the series Creature Commandos (2024) and wrote and directed the film Superman (2025). He also wrote and directed the web series James Gunn's PG Porn (2008–2009), the HBO Max original series Peacemaker (2022–2025) and the Disney+ original special The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022). Other work for which he is known include writing for the 2004 remake of George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead (1978), writing the live-action adaptation of Scooby Doo (2002), and its sequel Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004), writing and producing the horror-action film The Belko Experiment (2016), producing the superhero-horror film Brightburn (2019), and contributing to comedy-anthology film Movie 43 (2013) (directing the segment "Beezel") and the 2012 hack-and-slash video game Lollipop Chainsaw. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Gunn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Plot: It has been 3 years since the murder of Jason Todd and the attempted murder of Barbara Gordon at the hands of the Joker. Bruce Wayne has become disillusioned with vigilantism and as a result has not worn the cowl of Batman since those fateful events and he believes that he could do better for Gotham as Bruce Wayne than as Batman. He has started pouring his money into helping eradicate poverty in Gotham through charity. He soon learns that Gotham still needs Batman as he struggles to save the city from a terrible fate by Mister Freeze and the Penguin. He must also become a mentor to a young teenager who is posing as a copycat Robin. Post Credit Scene 1: A man wearing a blue and black uniform stands on top of a Building in Bludhaven and notices a bank robbery and runs to stop it and we get a brief glimpse of Dick Grayson. Post Credit Scene 2: Reporter Clark Kent shows his ID to a police officer at a train station in Metropolis and prepares to go to Gotham to write a story on Batman. Post Credits Scene 3: Two criminals are discussing rumors of a nut wearing a red helmet shooting criminals when all of a sudden they are shot down by said vigilante who asked “Who is the nut? You pieces of trash are selling these toxic substances to kids.”
