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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: Khalid Nassour is an Egyptian-American medical student living in Brooklyn, New York and is working to get his doctorate in medicine. One day, he comes across in his family home old relics that belonged to his great uncle Kent Nelson, which include a broach that has the mark of an ankh, a very old yellow cloak, and a golden helmet which looks like it was worn by an ancient Greek general. He decides to try these relics on and he is sent into a different dimension where he meets two spirits. The first spirit is of Nabu, the Mesopotamian god of Wisdom and the other spirit is of the Phantom Stranger, an enigmatic cosmic being. They mentor Khalid in the use of the Helmet of Fate, the broach known as the Amulet of Anubis, and the worn cloak known as the Cloak of Destiny. A dark figure named Wotan also emerges from the shadows and it is up to Khalid to seize the initiative and to decide whether to grant Forgiveness as the Phantom Stranger advocates or Punishment as Nabu advocates. Post Credits Scene 1: Nabu and the Phantom Stranger report to their Bosses in the Lords of Order on Khalid’s training and informed about new threats from the Lords of Chaos. Post Credits Scene 2: The Star shaped alien approaches Earth and prepares to release spores.
