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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.
Ed Calagan is a successful former director of big-budget action films. But soon, he loses all his inspiration, beginning a long period of professional inactivity. Her superiors noticing that he no longer brings in any money for production, decide to dismiss her. Ed becomes depressed and when he tries to commit suicide, Max, an attacker kidnaps him hoping to exchange him for a large sum of money. But it is while making a phone call to Ed's wife that Max realizes that he has kidnapped a loser who is no longer worth anything and whom no one wants. Max tries to abandon his victim but the latter, having nowhere to go and no one to love him, decides to follow his attacker. Max tries to get rid of Ed who encumbers him in his criminal business but Ed does not let go of the case, he is determined to pursue Max to the end of the world because this one gives him inspiration to make a film about Max's life. But soon, Calagan finds himself embroiled in the unhealthy story of Max, whose skin is lacking in all the mafia bosses in the city !
