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James Gunn (born August 5, 1970)〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=James Gunn Biography (1970-) )〕 is an American writer, director, producer, actor, and musician. His siblings include Sean and Matt Gunn. Gunn started his career as a screenwriter in the late 1990s, and has written the scripts for ''Tromeo and Juliet'' (1996), ''Scooby-Doo'' (2002), its sequel ''Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed'' (2004), and the 2004 version of ''Dawn of the Dead''. He then started working also as a director, starting with ''Slither'' in 2006. He subsequently wrote and directed the web series ''James Gunn's PG Porn'' and the superhero films ''Super'' (2010) and ''Guardians of the Galaxy'' (2014). ==Early life== Gunn was born to an Irish Catholic〔(IMDb Biography of James Gunn )〕 family in St. Louis, Missouri〔 and raised there and in Manchester, Missouri. His brothers are Sean, an actor; Matt, an actor and political writer; Brian; and Patrick, a film and media professional, formerly a Senior Vice President with Artisan Entertainment.〔(Patrick Gunn profile ), qualiacapital.com; accessed December 4, 2014.〕 He also has a sister, Beth Gunn. Gunn's father, James F. Gunn, is a partner and corporate attorney with the law firm Thompson Coburn in St. Louis. Gunn's surname is derived from the Irish name MacGilGunn meaning "Sons to the Servants of the God of the Dead".〔April 4, 2012 interview, 404 Podcast Ep. 1047.〕 Growing up, he was influenced by low-budget films such as ''Night of the Living Dead'' and ''Friday the 13th''. He read magazines like'' Fangoria'' and attended genre movie screenings including the original ''Dawn of the Dead'' at the Tivoli Theatre in St. Louis. At the age of 12, he began making 8 mm zombie films with his brothers in the woods near their home. Gunn and his brothers are all graduates of Saint Louis University High School, a Jesuit high school located in Kings Oak, St. Louis. James went on to attend Saint Louis University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Gunn said that, at an unspecified time in his college education, "I went to two years undergraduate film school at Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles. But I was pretty screwed up at the time, and had to leave. Years later I went to graduate school at the Columbia University School of Fine Arts but I studied prose writing, not film writing." He earned a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University in 1995. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Gunn (filmmaker)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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