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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
Director
for Director in Marvel Studios' Fantastic Four (2014, Phase 2)
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The Idea: what if marvel owned the fantastic four from the start and got to use them in the mcu, and made films about them instead of the GOTG Changes: no GOTG trilogy, the F4 take the place of guardians in non solo appearances (such as in avengers), no fox F4 (2000's or 2015) Technical Details/Dates: 2014 release, filmed in 2013 Misc. Details: Reed and Sue are already dating, they get married at the end. Description: Four astronauts, including a brilliant scientist named Reed Richards, his future wife Sue Storm, his best friend and the pilot Ben Grimm, and Sue's younger brother Johnny Storm, head into space but chaos arises and they are blasted with cosmic rays, giving them extraordinary abilities, so they form the superhero team known as the Fantastic Four, teaming up to stop the villainous Dr. Doom, a man from Reed's past Post Credits Scene: Reed perfects dimensional travel, and the F4 travel into another dimension, The Negative Zone
