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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.
The movie opens with a car chase between Batman and Robin and the Joker and Harley Quinn after the Joker stole an expensive piece of art from the museum. After a while Joker and Harley get out and Batman chases Harley while telling Robin to go after Joker. Robin manages to catch up to Joker and tells him to hand over the painting Joker steps back and when Robin runs at him Joker puts out a pistol and shoots Robin in the face. Years later in 2014 Bruce is retired and now Gotham is flooded with crime. Meanwhile Jim Gordan is having trouble with a new crime organization calling themselves the League of Assassins that came to Gotham 4 months ago and are already on top of organized crime in Gotham. During Robin's funeral Bruce told Jim that he is Batman and is retiring so knowing that Jim goes to Bruce and asks him to be Batman once again. Bruce says no the first few times but after him home is broken into by an assassin named Deathstroke Bruce decides to become the caped crusader once again. The movie goes on with Batman trying to stop the league while fighting Deathstroke their best trained assassin. Bruce eventually defeats Deathstroke who still gets away and finds the leader of the League Ras Al Ghul and his daughter Talia. Bruce fights Ras in the spirit world and eventually takes him down. Bruce gets the League to leave Gotham but before that Talia spends the night with Bruce.
