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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.
James Gunn
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for Director in James Gunn's SCOOBY-DOO (Animated)
Suggested by enzotakerian
This would be a remake of the 2002 movie, but it will be 2D-animated and the screenplay will be written the way James Gunn had it originally. In a first draft script, there was more dark humor and Shaggy was a stoner, but the producers convinced Gunn to have it rewritten as more "family friendly." This version will have dark humor, scarier situations, and Gunn's same old irreverent comedic charm. Some of us already know the story: after spending a couple of years apart, each member of the Mystery Gang is summoned to a resort called "Spooky Island," where the owner tells them that there's a sinister difference between the guests that arrive on the island and the customers that leave. The ones departing act like they were in an Orwell-style think-tank. The Mystery Gang must put aside their spats for each other, because as long as they work together, solving this mystery might just save the world. Oh, and the twist villain will NOT be Scrappy Doo!
