The writer, director and producer James Gunn has traveled a long way since his working days for Troma Studios, which makes the films on a low budget the most offensive improper in printing. Since its beginnings of work under Lloyd Kaufman in Troma to become co -president of DC Studios (With Peter Safran), Gunn has always had fairly strong themes in his films. While some of his written work sometimes moves away in a much darker territory (you look at you, “The Belko Experiment”), the films he writes and Directs tends to be dark overall parts with at least a little bloodshed and a surprising amount of sweetness. Gunn worked for Marvel Studios and DCAnd although there are very large differences between the tone and the content of these superhero stories, they always contain some of the Teltale brands of Gunn.

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From 2006 with his first solo feature, “Slither”, Gunn showed the public that he can develop convincing cinema, whatever the genre or the franchise in which he works, creating a unique style of narration which has become more complex in each iteration. His next “Superman” has the power to do or break The new DC universe, so take a look at some of the things that make James Gunn a film by James Gunn.

Gunn seems to love the idea of ​​the Found family, because most of their films follow the unsuitable films that end up finding love and camaraderie with each other. In “Slither”, survivors of an extraterrestrial invasion must work together. In his 2010 “Super” superhero satire, a pair of justified parias find a (deeply complicated) friendship with each other. This theme of Found Family worked best in his more common superhero cinema, however, because it is the basis of his “Guardians of the Galaxy” trilogy and the film 2021 “The Suicide Squad”. (It is also the foundation of its two Max, “Peacemaker” and “Creature Commandos” programs, but we are here to talk about films.)

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In fact, Gunn is so great to tell these big groups that some comic fans are Worried that he loses focusing on the man of steel in “Superman”, “ But as Superman’s life is a founded family story, it really shouldn’t be a problem. In fact, it makes a sort of Gunn man perfect for work.

It is great that Gunn seems almost exclusively to write on the parias because there are many people in the world who feel like not to integrate and desperately need a kind of family. His films show us that nobody deserves love, and sometimes the greatest Castoff is also the most that needs a little understanding.

Another thing that continues to arise in Gunn’s filmography is a character who seems scary to start but is actually a kind of darling. In “Guardians of the Galaxy”, Drax the Destroyer (Dave Bautista) and Mono-Syllabic Tree-Goot (Vin Diesel) both seem a little intense at the beginning, but end up being giant soffies, and in “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2”, the chief of Ravager and Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) adoptive adoptive vol. Yondu (Michael Rooker) ended up being the secret heart of the film Despite the game before as a hard and potentially completely immoral villain.

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Then there is one of the most appreciated adaptations of a Gunn of a comic book character: Nanaue, alias King Shark, in “The Suicide Squad”. Expressed by Sylvester Stallone and Physically accelerated on the set by Steve AgeeThe King CGI shark is a physically imposing beast of a creature that is A little confused, Despite (or perhaps because) that he can tear people in two and bite his head. In fact, he eats almost Ratcatcher 2 (Daniela Melchior) before his rat Sebastian informs the team and they stop him, but she presents him at the idea of ​​friendship and he kisses her with the heart. He even tries to offer Peacemaker (John Cena) with a small version of the anti-hero helmet made of explosive putty and make friends with very hungry extraterrestrial piranhas. Gunn loves characters who are not what they seem first, and he is used to making monsters with friendly souls.

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Some of Gunn’s basic foods are not also focused on the characters, such as its tendency to create Absolutely killer “mixing” soundtracks For his films and almost inevitably having a scene where his characters take place in slow motion while a super cool song plays. In the first “Guardians of the Galaxy”, we see the gang associating for the great final battle, then making a heroic walk in the idle take place on “Cherry Bomb” by the runaways. Then, in “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3”, they obtain a culminating battle scene which ends with an even more heroic slow motion, all up to “No Sleep to Brooklyn” by Beastie Boys. In “The Suicide Squad”, the team manages to walk in slow motion in the rain with “Hey” pixies, which gives the pace.

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From Gunn plays both the soundtrack and the scoring on the set To help the actors really feel the scene, it means that when we see these characters who seem so incredibly cool, it is probably because the actors also feel pretty cool for the moment. I mean, how do you do not Do you feel cool by wearing comics weapons and walking with your team to some of the best songs of the 20th century?

The whole idea of ​​the Found family seems to extend beyond the fictitious worlds that Gunn creates and to create the films themselves, because it tends to work with some of the same people again and again. One is his true brother, the actor Sean Gunn, who provided the work of motion capture for Rocket Raccoon and portrayed the Ravager Kraglin in the films “Guardians of the Galaxy”as well as playing the weasel in “The Suicide Squad”. Then, there is Nathan Fillion, who played the sheriff Bill Pardy in “Slither” and appeared in several other Gunn projects since, in particular by playing Karja in the “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3”, as a child detachable in “The Suicide Squad”, and in the next Movie “Superman” like a green lantern bowl carrying a bowl. He also worked several times with Rooker, who has been with Gunn since “Slither” and appeared in the films “Guardians” as well as in the opening sequence of “The Suicide Squad”.

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The company close to Gunn with many of its actors means that fans wonder who could present themselves in each new project, with many major assumptions on which Could end up appearing in “Superman”. Hoping that these cinematographic links continue for many years to come because it is an explosion to see Gunn meet with his cinematographic friends every few years.

Although Gunn has not made a film firmly in the kind of horror since “Slither”, his appreciation for the blood and the guts of his first work and time in Troma is obvious in each film he made. “Slither” is extremely violent, really pushing his note R With Gore Total, and “Super” is also brutally bloody, so it was surprising when he was hired to direct “Guardians of the Galaxy” for Marvel and Disney, although he took advantage of the PG-13 note on the delivery of a film that still had a lot of carefully used splashes. “Guardians” films have their moments of darkness and Horror that clearly points to the first days of Gunn While being attenuated enough so that families can look together. “The Suicide Squad” and its Spin-Off television programs have a lot of blood and gore both live and animation, showing that the writer / director has not lost his talent for a funny fantastic violence.

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Although we are probably not going to see a ton of blood and gore in “Superman”, it is almost guaranteed that Gunn will use his experience by creating an emotional impact through a little brutality. We will have to see where “Superman” is on The list of the best Gunn moviesBut if he has remained faithful to himself and his comic book and shock absorber, it is certainly incredible.