filmmaker
Director of films including Slither, Super, and Guardians of the Galaxy, and one of a group of directors who has made shorts for the Horror Meets Comedy series created by Xbox
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James Gunn
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FROM James Gunn
The Treatment
James Gunn: Guardians of the Galaxy Writer/director James Gunn on turning a group of outcast ragtag superheroes into the summer's biggest blockbuster.
The Business
Filmmaker James Gunn Makes a Videogame Cult filmmaker James Gunn, who made Tromeo and Juliet and Super and wrote the screenplays for Dawn of the Dead and the two Scooby Doo movies, has written and directed a video game. It's called Lollipop Chainsaw and it's his first foray into that business. Gunn talks about how freeing it is to write a 1000-page video game and how being part of an 'artform' that's still developing was exciting to him. (This segment originally aired June 11, 2012)
The Business
Filmmaker James Gunn Makes a Videogame Cult filmmaker James Gunn, who made Tromeo and Juliet and Super and wrote the screenplays for Dawn of the Dead and the two Scooby Doo movies, has written and directed a video game. It's called Lollipop Chainsaw and it's his first foray into that business. Gunn talks about how freeing it is to write a 1000-page video game and how being part of an 'artform' that's still developing was exciting to him.
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