Post by Atom(ica) Discord on May 7, 2017 22:47:15 GMT
This may be premature by a nanosecond but, I think Mr. Gunn has officially arrived.
Prior to Guardians, I always though of him as this quirky, pseudo-mysoginistic, c-movie director. I could enjoy his work as a guilty pleasure but, there was always that moment in his early days where you had to cringe (or heave) at his insensitivity and attraction to shell-shocking violence. Who kills their teenaged, female protagonist with a gunshot wound to the head and then lingers on her blood-soaked, dislodged cranium?
In any event, the scribe behind 2004's excellent, Dawn of The Dead remake, has come a long fucking way.
Marvel sure knows how to pick them. Congratulations to Troma boy.
Prior to Guardians, I always though of him as this quirky, pseudo-mysoginistic, c-movie director. I could enjoy his work as a guilty pleasure but, there was always that moment in his early days where you had to cringe (or heave) at his insensitivity and attraction to shell-shocking violence. Who kills their teenaged, female protagonist with a gunshot wound to the head and then lingers on her blood-soaked, dislodged cranium?
In any event, the scribe behind 2004's excellent, Dawn of The Dead remake, has come a long fucking way.
Here is a small sampling of beneficiaries of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe (which, with 15 films since 2008, has earned over $11 billion globally): movie theaters interested in selling tickets; the good people at Disney; the dozens of actors who have been made intergalactic movie stars; people who enjoy comic books; people who enjoy origin stories; people who enjoy watching things explode.
But the biggest winner of all would have to be James Gunn. As of Sunday morning, the second “Guardians” movie — which Gunn wrote and directed — earned $145 million domestically, or 54% more than the original did during its opening weekend in 2014. Combined with a 13-day international total, the film has already made over $427 million globally, and could be on its way to becoming the MCU’s fifth billion-dollar movie.
Those big numbers represent quite a transition for Gunn, who, before signing on to direct the first “Guardians,” was mostly known as a B-movie director. The most that one of Gunn’s movies had made at the box office before “Guardians” was 2002’s live-action “Scooby Doo” ($153 million) and its sequel (both of which, it should be noted, this writer unabashedly enjoyed, despite critical lashings). But Gunn’s story at Marvel is important for more reasons than dollars and cents.
But the biggest winner of all would have to be James Gunn. As of Sunday morning, the second “Guardians” movie — which Gunn wrote and directed — earned $145 million domestically, or 54% more than the original did during its opening weekend in 2014. Combined with a 13-day international total, the film has already made over $427 million globally, and could be on its way to becoming the MCU’s fifth billion-dollar movie.
Those big numbers represent quite a transition for Gunn, who, before signing on to direct the first “Guardians,” was mostly known as a B-movie director. The most that one of Gunn’s movies had made at the box office before “Guardians” was 2002’s live-action “Scooby Doo” ($153 million) and its sequel (both of which, it should be noted, this writer unabashedly enjoyed, despite critical lashings). But Gunn’s story at Marvel is important for more reasons than dollars and cents.