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- "Within each of our characters there's a certain beauty... within most of them; some of them are just pretty crappy through and through."
- ―James Gunn on writing The Suicide Squad[src]
James Francis Gunn Jr. (born August 5, 1966) is an American filmmaker, actor, novelist, and musician. He wrote and directed The Suicide Squad.[1] He created the HBO Max series, Peacemaker, and acted as showrunner and executive producer for its first season. He wrote all of the episodes and directed most of them.
Gunn appeared as the featured guest in Episode 1 of Podly: The Peacemaker Podcast, a companion video podcast for Peacemaker hosted by Ify Nwadiwe and Fiona Nova.
He is currently working on another spinoff tv series for The Suicide Squad[2] as well as the second season of Peacemaker, where he will serve as writer and director for all of the episodes.[3]
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- James Gunn has stated that working on The Suicide Squad was "the greatest, most exciting journey of [his] life."
- James Gunn is the brother of Sean Gunn who is also his frequent collaborator in his movies.
- He is engaged to Jennifer Holland (who portrays Emilia Harcourt) since February 2022.
- Gunn previously worked with Holland in Brightburn.
- Gunn will voice a fictional version of himself in the DC animated series Harley Quinn.
- Gunn wrote and directed the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Guardians of the Galaxy, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.
- Gunn wrote and set to direct a television special The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special.
- Gunn wrote additional dialogue for Avengers: Infinity War.
- When The Suicide Squad and the first season of Peacemaker were finished, Gunn went to work on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.
- Gunn is the second director to have directed both MCU and DCEU films, the first being Joss Whedon.
