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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.
Superman intercepts a falling blimp over Metropolis Trust Bank as Batman disables explosives inside—revealing the Joker behind it. The clown escapes, but the disaster is prevented through perfect aerial-ground coordination. Mayor Lex Luthor publicly praises Superman, positioning himself as Metropolis’s strategic protector. Batman tells Superman he's been picking up an extra-terrestrial disturbance in the atmosphere. Superman could sense it already. A skull-shaped alien vessel arrives: Brainiac. He announces Earth will be archived. Cities vanish in bottled stasis fields. Superman and Supergirl confront him and is nearly digitized before Batman and Batgirl disrupt Brainiac’s signal grid. Catwoman steals a drone core that lets Batman trace the mothership. Martha and Pa Kent ground Clark emotionally, reminding him Earth is more than territory — it’s people. Luthor provides alien tech access codes. Batman distrusts him but uses the data. The heroes board Brainiac’s ship: Superman battles androids while Batman and Batgirl free cities. Brainiac calculates Superman as the prime specimen and tries to bottle him; Batman overloads the collector using Catwoman’s stolen core. Superman resists, shattering the stasis engine. Brainiac is defeated and contained in a null-field prison built by Luthor and WayneTech. The cities are restored. Luthor takes public credit, Batman vanishes, and Superman thanks him anyway. On a rooftop, the two heroes agree that someone that powerful, isn't gone for good.
