James Gunn

James Gunn Movies and TV Shows

James Gunn was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, to Leota and James Francis Gunn. He is from a large Catholic family, with Irish and Czech ancestry. His father and his uncles were all lawyers. He has been writing and performing as long as he can remember. He began making 8mm films at the age of twelve. Many of these were comedic splatter films featuring his brothers being disemboweled by zombies. He attended Saint Louis University High (SLUH) college preparatory school but later dropped out of college to pursue a rock and roll career. His band, "the Icons", released one album, "Mom, We Like It Here on Earth". He earned very little money doing this and so during this time, he also worked as an orderly in Tucson, Arizona, upon which many of the situations in his first novel, "The Toy Collector", are based. He wrote and drew comic strips for underground and college newspapers. Gunn eventually returned to school and received his B.A. at Saint Louis University in his native St. Louis. He moved to New York where he received an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University, which he today thinks may have been a wonderfully expensive waste of time. While finishing his MFA, he started writing "The Toy Collector" and began working for "Troma Studios", America's leading B-Movie production company. While there he wrote and produced the cult classic Tromeo and Juliet (1996) and, with Lloyd Kaufman, he wrote "All I Need to Know about Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger". Gunn had a spiritual awakening in Cannes in 1997 and quit Troma and relocated from New York to Los Angeles. He wrote and acted in the film The Specials (2000) with Rob Lowe, Jamie Kennedy, Thomas J. Churchill and his brother Sean Gunn. He wrote two scripts for Warner Brothers live action movies: Spy vs. Spy (1985) and Scooby-Doo (2002). In 1999, after almost five years, he finished "The Toy Collector". After doing Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004), Gunn made his directorial debut with Slither (2006). He later made the superhero film Super (2010) and the successful Marvel films Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and its sequel Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) Gunn has four brothers, all of whom are in the entertainment industry. His brother, Patrick Gunn, is a Senior VP at Artisan Entertainment, the company responsible for distributing (and the marketing campaign of) The Blair Witch Project (1999). His brother, Brian Gunn, is a screenwriter who works in partnership with their cousin Mark Gunn. Gunn's brother, Matt Gunn wrote and starred in the winner of the 1997 Sundance Film Festival, Man About Town (1997). Gunn's brother, Sean Gunn, is an actor regularly seen in films, commercials, and such TV shows as Angel (1999). James and Sean have collaborated on two occasions Sean starred in Tromeo and Juliet (1996), and they acted together and co-produced The Specials (2000). The brothers have one sister, Beth, who is a lawyer. Gunn married actress and cartoonist Jenna Fischer in 2000. They divorced in 2008. He is now in a relationship with Jennifer Holland

Personal info

  • Gender: Male
  • Date of birth: 8/5/1966 (57 years old)
  • Place of birth: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
  • nationality: American
  • height: 1.82 m
  • Net worth: $50,000,000
  • twitter: JamesGunn
  • instagram: jamesgunn
Year
Genre
IMDB
TMDB
Available on the following streaming services in the United States
2023

Action

Adventure

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

7.9
80%
2022

Adventure

Comedy

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

6.9
72%
I Am Groot
IMDB 6.7
TMDB 71%
role:
Executive Producer
2022

Action

Adventure

Animation

Family

6.7
71%
Groot Takes a Bath
IMDB 7.0
TMDB 79%
role:
Executive Producer
2022

Animation

Family

7.0
79%
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Groot's Pursuit
IMDB 6.7
TMDB 76%
role:
Executive Producer
2022

Animation

Comedy

Family

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

6.7
76%
The Little Guy
IMDB 7.3
TMDB 75%
role:
Executive Producer
2022

Animation

Family

7.3
75%
Groot's First Steps
IMDB 6.6
TMDB 70%
role:
Executive Producer
2022

Animation

Comedy

Family

6.6
70%
Magnum Opus
IMDB 7.3
TMDB 76%
role:
Executive Producer
2022

Animation

Comedy

Family

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

7.3
76%
Peacemaker
IMDB 8.3
TMDB 83%
role:
Executive Producer
Not available
2022

Action

Adventure

Comedy

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

8.3
83%
Not available
The Suicide Squad
IMDB 7.2
TMDB 75%
role:
Writer & 1 more
2021

Action

Adventure

Comedy

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

7.2
75%
Brightburn
IMDB 6.1
TMDB 61%
role:
Producer
2019

Horror

Thriller

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

6.1
61%
Avengers: Endgame
IMDB 8.4
TMDB 83%
role:
Executive Producer
2019

Action

Adventure

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

8.4
83%
Avengers: Infinity War
IMDB 8.4
TMDB 82%
role:
Additional Dialogue & 1 more
2018

Action

Adventure

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

8.4
82%
Thor: Ragnarok
IMDB 7.9
TMDB 76%
role:
Second Unit Director
2017

Action

Adventure

Comedy

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

7.9
76%
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Spider-Man: Homecoming
IMDB 7.4
TMDB 73%
role:
Second Unit Director
2017

Action

Adventure

Drama

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

7.4
73%
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
IMDB 7.6
TMDB 76%
role:
Script Supervisor & 2 more
2017

Action

7.6
76%
Doctor Strange
IMDB 7.5
TMDB 74%
role:
Second Unit Director
2016

Action

Adventure

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

7.5
74%
The Belko Experiment
IMDB 6.2
TMDB 61%
role:
Writer & 1 more
2016

Action

Horror

Thriller

6.2
61%
Guardians of the Galaxy
IMDB 8.0
TMDB 79%
role:
Writer & 2 more
2014

Action

Adventure

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

8.0
79%
2014

Documentary

TV Movie

7.2
71%
Thor: The Dark World
IMDB 6.8
TMDB 65%
role:
Second Unit Director
2013

Action

Adventure

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

6.8
65%
Movie 43
IMDB 4.3
TMDB 45%
role:
Writer & 1 more
2013

Comedy

4.3
45%
Super
IMDB 6.7
TMDB 66%
role:
Writer & 3 more
2010

Action

Comedy

Drama

6.7
66%
Doggie Heaven (Woof!)
IMDB 6.2
TMDB 58%
role:
Executive Producer
Not available
2008

Comedy

6.2
58%
Not available
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Scream Queens
IMDB 7.4
TMDB 80%
role:
Not available
2008
7.4
80%
Not available
James Gunn's PG Porn
IMDB 7.5
TMDB 48%
role:
Executive Producer & 1 more
Not available
2008

Comedy

7.5
48%
Not available
2007

Crime

Drama

Thriller

6.8
67%
2006

Documentary

6.9
63%
Slither
IMDB 6.5
TMDB 65%
role:
Writer & 2 more
2006

Comedy

Horror

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

6.5
65%
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
IMDB 5.2
TMDB 60%
role:
Co-Producer & 2 more
2004

Adventure

Comedy

Mystery

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

5.2
60%
Dawn of the Dead
IMDB 7.3
TMDB 70%
role:
Screenplay
2004

Action

Horror

7.3
70%
Scooby-Doo
IMDB 5.3
TMDB 60%
role:
Story & 1 more
2002

Adventure

Comedy

Mystery

5.3
60%
2001

Comedy

Horror

5.9
65%
Terror Firmer
IMDB 6.1
TMDB 62%
role:
Writer
1999

Comedy

Horror

Thriller

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

6.1
62%
Tromeo & Juliet
IMDB 6.0
TMDB 61%
role:
Executive In Charge Of Production & 2 more
Not available
1996

Action

Comedy

Drama

Horror

Mystery

Romance

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

6.0
61%
Not available
Out of Shadows
IMDB 6.9
TMDB 0%
role:
Self (archive footage)
Not available
6.9
0%
Not available

FAQs

Some movies or TV shows available in the United States starring or involving James Gunn are, for example, Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special.
The streaming services with the largest selection are Prime Video, iTunes and Google Play.
The best Anystream ratings are Avengers: Endgame (8.4), Avengers: Infinity War (8.3) and Guardians of the Galaxy (8.0).
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