

So how the fuck could I say no?” This dispels any doubts there could be regarding his decision to join DC. No one in the history of Hollywood has ever had an opportunity to tell the biggest story ever told across television, film and games, to have that type of creative outlet. “I don’t think there’s ever been a storyteller in charge. The name that was chosen for the first phase of the project may offer a clue: Gods and Monsters. And then, as soon as the promotion with Marvel ends, Gunn will set his sights on shaping stories for Superman, Wonder Woman and other DC characters in movies, series and video games. They saved the project, but a little too late: Gunn had already signed with Marvel’s arch-rival, DC.

However, the protests from the cast and the public forced the company to back down. Pom Klementieff (left), Chris Pratt and Karen Gillan in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, the final part of the most peculiar trilogy of Marvel superhero movies - a film that, incidentally, he was not supposed to direct, because Disney fired him after the second movie in light of some old jokes he made about pedophilia, rape and 9/11 on Twitter. On one hand, he was presenting the recently released Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. But you never know: rarely has his brain accumulated as many tasks, emotions and stimuli as these days. Speaking in a Paris hotel, the director seemed focused on the conversation. His wife inevtiably catches him and brings him back to reality. It’s like I’m mumbling dialog, or music or something,” he says. “The worst part is that I talk to myself sometimes, and I don’t know that I’m doing it. He himself admits that his mind constantly wanders off, no matter what he is doing.

It may have something to do with the fact that the filmmaker’s brain cannot slow down, even at night. What’s so relaxing about picturing fights, leaps and somersaults? Who knows. That was the last thing he did before drifting off. However, for James Gunn, what worked for him was choreographing action sequences in his head. One of the most famous methods for falling asleep is counting sheep. James Gunn, on April 18, during a press conference in Seoul.
