In 2009, Gunn announced he was going to write and direct Pets, a comedy about a man who is abducted by aliens who want to turn him into a household pet with Ben Stiller, Stuart Cornfeld and Jeremy Kramer producing. In 2008, James Gunn was one of the judges on the VH1 reality television show Scream Queens where 10 unknown actresses compete for a role in the film Saw VI, where he directed contestants during acting challenges. Gunn also has a short form web series for titled James Gunn's PG Porn which made EW's The Must List. In an April 2009 interview on The Jace Hall Show, Gunn described Sparky and Mikaela as being "about a human racoon crime fighting team and they fight crime in both the forest world, among the furry animals, and in the human world". Gunn's next projects included the comedy short film Humanzee! which was originally intended exclusively for the Xbox Live's Horror Meets Comedy series of short comedy films by horror directors, it was replaced with Sparky and Mikaela which debuted on Xbox Live on December 31, 2008. His directorial film debut was the 2006 horror-comedy Slither. That same year he also executive produced, and starred in the mockumentary LolliLove, directed by and starring his then-wife Jenna Fischer. Romero's Dawn of the Dead, and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. In 2004, he wrote the screenplay for the remake of George A.
Gunn's first major Hollywood screenplay was Scooby-Doo in 2002. After contributing to several other Troma films, Gunn wrote, produced and performed in his own superhero comedy, The Specials, directed by Craig Mazin and featuring Rob Lowe, Thomas Haden Church, Paget Brewster, Judy Greer and Jamie Kennedy. Gunn began his career in filmmaking with Troma Entertainment, for whom he wrote the independent film Tromeo and Juliet. He continued his graduate studies at Columbia University, where he earned his MFA in Writing Fiction. Gunn graduated Saint Louis University in 1992 where he earned his B.S.
Though the surname Gunn is usually Scottish, Gunn's name is from the Irish name MacGilGunn meaning "Sons to the Servants of the God of the Dead". He has four brothers, actor Sean Gunn, actor and political writer Matt Gunn, producer Patrick Gunn (formerly with Mosaic Media Group) and writer Brian Gunn, as well as one sister.
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