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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 Writer in Justice League: Season 1 Episode 2
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The episode opens in Central City as a team of supervillains called the Rouges break into a jewelry store. Just then a flash of lightning goes by and Cold the leader of the Rouges grabs his freeze gun. Suddenly Heatwave, Cold's second in command disappears and the team looks outside to see the Flash holding Heatwave by the shoulder. The team starts shooting but the Flash dodges everything. Eventually the entire team is taken down and Flash goes home to get ready for his actual job. Once Barry Allen gets to his job he goes to talk to Officer Eddie Thawne and Officer Jay Garrick about their next case. Just then Iris West Barry's girlfriend shows up and Barry heads out for his date. The camera zooms out and we cut to Gotham where the Batman is patrolling the streets as he talks to Oracle the former Batgirl and daughter of commissioner Gordon on an earpiece. He tells her he'll be late and turns the earpiece off as he goes into a mysterious looking storage unit.
