James Gunn has just reached an important milestone in his career by finishing the principal photography of Superman, the first adventure on the big screen in the first bankruptcy of the new DCU. That’s not the only thing worth celebrating in Gunn’s career, though. This week also marks the 10th anniversary of the release of the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie, the film that catapulted Gunn into the mainstream. It’s been a wild ride for the writer/director and he’s celebrating it all.
James Gunn posted a symbol on Instagram showing the director, who has much less white hair, alongside Chris Pratt and Dave Bautista while doing press in Europe for Guardians of the Galaxy. He was there ten years ago, and now he runs an entire studio. He’s in a position that he actually wouldn’t have been in if the first Guardians movie hadn’t been a huge success, and not even Gunn can know how far he’s come. The director said. . .
Yesterday Superman got carried away. And today is the tenth anniversary of the release of Guardians of the Galaxy in European cinemas (we were on tour selling it and we were scared when the reviews came in). What ten years it has been!
It was a huge coup when James Gunn was tapped to direct Guardians of the Galaxy. Gunn had made a handful of independent films, which were huge hits, if not huge hits. He had grown up in Lloyd Kaufman’s Troma Entertainment, making movies that can only be described, lovingly, as nonsense.
This made Gunn an attractive choice to direct a Marvel movie, but it might have made sense since he was directing a movie based on Guardians of the Galaxy, a comic book franchise that wasn’t too bad, even among comic book fans. then. Many critics didn’t expect much from Guardians of the Galaxy. Even James Gunn wasn’t convinced at first. Little did they know that this would arguably become the most important franchise in the Marvel Cinematic Universe with truly special characters.
James Gunn is now co-head of DC Films and oversees all upcoming DC films and its entire cinematic universe. To call the last ten years “amazing” would probably be an understatement. In a way, nothing has changed. James Gunn continues to direct comic book movies, but he started with largely overlooked characters and is now bidding to bring the most famous comic book character of all time back to the screen.
Once Superman’s release date arrives and the film is actually finished, James Gunn will possibly write and direct full-length Superman films, or perhaps simply play his role as director of DC Films. In any case, the next ten years are shaping up to be as normal as the last ten.
A CinemaBlend theme park junkie and amateur Disney historian, Dirk began writing for CinemaBlend as a freelancer in 2015 before joining the site full-time in 2018. He has previously held roles as a game editor and publisher, but more recently It became his real hobby. in his task as head of the site’s theme parks segment. In the past he worked as a freelancer for gaming and generation sites. Before beginning his second career as a writer, he worked for 12 years in sales for corporations in the customer electronics industry. He has a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of California, Davis. He is an Imagineer chair, Epcot Stan, member of Future Club 33.
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