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James Gunn is an American writer and director born in 1970 in St. Louis, Missouri. He is the brother of actor Sean Gunn. He was the screenwriter for movies such as Guardians of the Galaxy, Super, Dawn of the Dead, Tromeo and Juliet, and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. Gunn was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Screenplay in 2005 and won The Filmmakers Showcase Award for Slither in 2007. Gunn was formerly married to actress Jenna Fischer.

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10 Dec, 2014

James Gunn interview

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Director and co-writer Gunn sits down to an interview with Anderson about his film Guardians Of The Galaxy and its Marval comic influences.

Yeah, especially the 2008 team because Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning wrote the series. They’re the ones that chose the characters who are in the movie and the characters they chose were all sort of Z-grade comic book heroes, some of whom had been around for 30 years. Groot first appeared in 1963. So there was a lot of humor and a lot of interesting stuff in those comics, a lot of space fantasy, and so if there was anything that influenced us when we were making the movie it was Dan and Andy’s work. I’m very indebted to those guys. I’m also indebted to some of the Cosmic guys from the 1970s like Jim Starlin, who created whole universes that really began the Cosmic side of Marvel, and he created Thanos. There are a lot of those elements in the film.

26 Jul, 2014

Sequel announced

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Gunn takes to Twitter to announce involvement in a sequel to Guardians of the Galaxy before the film even hits theaters. The film will be a part of Marvel’s next wave of six films.

https://twitter.com/JamesGunn/status/493210326201270272