12 Interesting Facts About James Gunn

Interesting Facts (8)

#001
Gunn wrote the part of King Shark with Sylvester Stallone in mind, yet the role had already been recorded in full with three other actors before Gunn approached Stallone.
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#002
The bandage on The Thinker's ear in The Suicide Squad, never explained on screen, traces back to a deleted scene in which Polka Dot Man shoots him in the ear rather than being manipulated.
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#003
In an August 2011 interview with the New York Times, he named Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) as the horror film that affected him most deeply in his youth, explaining that what frightened him most was being drawn into identifying, and empathizing, with the killer.
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#004
Autistic blogger and advocate James Ward-Sinclair praised Gunn for portraying Drax the Destroyer as autistic in an accurate and positive light.
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#005
He owns a hand-painted poster for Slither (2006) obtained directly from Ghana.
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#006
Gunn said he has written numerous ideas for carrying Weasel's story forward after The Suicide Squad.
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#007
Rather than making King Shark smarter, Gunn wanted him to have the intelligence a real human-shark hybrid might possess.
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#008
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James Gunn said TDK survives the opening ambush in The Suicide Squad, citing the life signals in the Comms hub as proof the character is still alive.
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#009
Gunn explained Ratcatcher 2's arm around Bloodsport as the gesture her father once made toward her, giving him the love she wished she could.
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#010
The character "Gunn" in the TV series Angel (1999) got his name after the show's creator, Joss Whedon, had worked with both James and his brother Sean Gunn.
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#011
At 12, he and his brother shot 8 mm zombie films in the woods near their home.
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His father, James Francis Gunn, died in 2019. Gunn has since said that his personal experience of his father's death shaped Superman (2025).
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