JAMES GUNN (Screenplay and Story)
JAMES GUNN (Screenplay and Story) was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri in a large Irish Catholic family. At the age of twelve he began his filmmaking career with an eight-millimeter camera. His first film featured his brother Sean Gunn (currently an actor on WB's The Gilmore Girls) being disemboweled by zombies.

While at Columbia University in New York earning his MFA in creative writing, Gunn applied for a part-time job filing papers at famed B-movie studio Troma Entertainment, and ended up writing the screenplay for a movie called Tromeo & Juliet instead. He was paid $150 to do so, and he produced the film as well. In 1997, Tromeo became a cult hit, playing in theaters around the world, including over a year of midnight screenings in Los Angeles. Gunn stayed at Troma for two years as the President of Production and for a time ran his own TV station, Troma's Edge TV, in the Netherlands and Amsterdam.

Gunn left Troma to write and star in the feature film The Specials, alongside Rob Lowe, Jamie Kennedy and his brother Sean. When released in 2000, this film about a group of superheroes on their day off had literally dozens of people flocking to the theater while it played in LA and New York.

Gunn wrote the critically acclaimed novel The Toy Collector, released by Bloomsbury Press in 2000. He also wrote, with Lloyd Kaufman, the non-fiction book, All I Need To Know About Filmmaking I Learned From The Toxic Avenger.

As the writer of the Scooby-Doo screenplay, this marks the first movie he's written that he's allowing his mother to see. Gunn also wrote the words and music to The Creature Chant used throughout the film.

In addition, Gunn has written Spy vs. Spy for director Jay Roach and Warner Bros. Pictures. He has also written TV pilots for the WB and Fox, and is currently writing the feature The Newlyweds, a romantic comedy for Warner Bros., and the remake of the 1979 horror classic, Dawn Of The Dead, for Universal. Most recently, however, Gunn wrote this very biography, speaking of himself in the third person throughout.