26 Years Later, James Gunn's First Superhero Movie Is Aging Like Fine Wine

26 Years Later, James Gunn's First Superhero Movie Is Aging Like Fine Wine

In 1999, James Gunn was not a name people knew. His music career had stalled in the mid-1990s, and aside from co-writing All I Need to Know About Filmmaking I Learned from The Toxic Avenger with Lloyd Kaufman and writing Troma's Tromeo and Juliet, he hadn't done anything of note. But his brother, Sean, was friends with Jamie Kennedy, who was still riding high on Scream. Sean slipped Kennedy one of James' scripts, The Specials, and, soon enough, …