James Gunn is sitting comfortably atop the superhero movie throne as the new co-president of DC Studios alongside Peter Safran. Gunn is also the director of the upcoming Superman, redeemer of The Suicide Squad, writer of Creature Commandos and Peacemaker, and has one of the MCU's most successful trilogies – Guardians of the Galaxy – under his belt. But cast your mind back a few years, and you might remember things weren't always so peachy for James Gunn. In between his long string of successes, the filmmaker's career was nearly destroyed overnight.