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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 The TMNT S1 Ep1 Rise of the TMNT Part 1
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The episode starts with the four turtles training just as master Splinter returns from the surface with a cake for the turtle's 15th mutation day. Splinter tells them the story of how they became what they are today. He tells them of how during a car cash between him and a mysterious van him and his four pet turtles were exposed to a radioactive substance that changed them forever. The episode goes on with them training until as a present Splinter lets them go to the surface for two hours. While up there the turtles witness what looks to be a ninja kill someone after not receiving the correct amount of money for their boss. The turtles investigate and come upon the Foot Clan who they struggle to beat and once they get away, they realize they've been seen when they hear a photo being taken by a girl with red hair and a yellow t-shirt. Once they find her, she apologizes and explains she works for a news station and four mutant turtles in Manhattan is a big story. The girl introduces herself as April O'Neil and tells them she'll delete the picture but just as they're talking, they're ambushed by the Foot Clan who followed them, and they take April as their supposed leader Tiger Claw tells them they have 48 hours to give them the location of Hamato Yoshi or they will kill the girl. To be continued.
