James Gunn He was born on August 5, 1970 and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, in a Catholic family of Irish origin. He began his film career at the age of twelve wielding an 8mm camera. His first film starred his brother Sean Gunn, who would later become one of the leads in the Warner Bros. television series. “
Gilmore Girls“.
While attending Columbia University in New York, Gunn got a job as an archivist at Troma Entertainment, famous B-movie production company, where he wrote the screenplay for “Tromeo & Juliet“For $ 150, the film became a cult movie, and in 1997 it was screened around the world, including a year of midnight screenings in Los Angeles.
Gunn left Troma to write “The Specials“(with Rob Lowe, Thomas Haden Church and Jamie Kennedy), a film released in 2000 that talks about the day off for a group of superheroes, and in which Gunn it also has a leading role.
That same year, the Bloomsbury Press publishing house published his novel, “The toy collector“Critically acclaimed, the book is the story of a hospital aide who sells drugs to finance his growing craze to collect toys. Along with Lloyd Kaufman he also wrote”Everything I need to know about the cinema I learned from Toxic Avenger“, currently in its fifth edition.
In 2002 the film version of “Scooby Doo“, a film that grossed $ 300 million worldwide and from which Gunn was responsible for the script.
In March 2004 he became the first writer in film history to have two different films ranked first at the box office in the US, for two consecutive weekends: the remake of the critically acclaimed “Dawn of the Dead” Y “Scooby-Doo 2: Unleashed“.
The love of Gunn for the comedy and the horror genre joined in the horror comedy “Slither“produced by Universal in 2006. Gunn wrote the screenplay for the film, starring Nathan Fillion and Elizabeth Banks, for which he won a Saturn Award and a Fangoria Chainsaw Award.
In 2008 it gave birth to the first original content for Xbox Live, producing seven comedy films made by directors of the horror genre. Also in 2008, Gunn hosted the reality show “Scream queens“on VH1, and started writing and directing the web series”James Gunn’s PG Porn“for Spike.com, a format that featured traditional actors and pornstars acting together in comedic videos. The site has had more than 20 million clicks online, making the product the highest-grossing web series of all time. The format too it has been picked up by the French television channel Canal + in a very successful series from the broadcaster.
Back in 2010, he wrote and directed the comedy “Super“starring Ellen Page and Liv Tyler, the one that followed” Movie 43 “in 2013, a funny film made up of 14 comedic and politically incorrect skits, intermingled with each other. The 14 shorts played by a star-studded cast, have The main focus is a 15-year-old teenager and his 11-year-old brother, a computer genius, who both try to search the internet for the mythical film entitled ‘Movie 43’, banned in almost everyone.
His latest work, recently released, was the science fiction comedy “Guardians of the Galaxy,” a story that Gunn wrote and directed about a space pilot who must join forces with a bizarre group of misfits to save the fate of the galaxy. galaxy.
In his personal life, James Gunn He was married to actress Jenna Fischer, whom he divorced in 2008. Gunn currently lives in Los Angeles with his dog, Dr. Wesley Von Spears.