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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.
Clark Kent is new to Metropolis and starting out at the Daily Planet.. He also is starting to be Superman. Meanwhile John Corben a Daily Planet Reporter finds out that his sister died when he was in Afghanistan. He blames Superman for not saving her. So John Corben starts trying to expose Superman as evil. Until he gets run over by a truck, is all bloody, and become Metallo. During all of this, Clark starts growing a relationship with Lois and becomes friends with Jimmy Olsen. He and Lois also go on a few dates. He also grows a rivalry with Lex Luthor in the movie. We see Clark just visiting his parents. Then Superman gets into a fight with Metallo and loses badly. He goes home to his parents and they help him heal his wounds. Then when Metallo finds him in metropolis again, they fight again. This time when it looks like Clark is about to lose he thinks of Lois and he gets his strength back. Finally he beats Metallo and saves the people of metropolis. He flys up in the sky around Metropolis, smiles at Lois, then at the camera, and black screen. This is a loose-ish outline of what the first Superman movie in the new DCU should be. Tell me your thoughts in the comics. Post credits scene: Lois bumps into Clark and drops some pictures. We see Clark get a look at those pictures and see Batman's cape.
