changed everything. Gunn wrote the script for the first movie, which ruled the American box office on its opening weekend in 2002, and its sequel, which did the same in 2004. But it was a coincidence of timing that truly set his career ablaze.
Gunn turned to alternative channels, shooting an Xbox Live short about a female superhero who fights crime alongside a talking raccoon, and a web series for Spike TV calledThe Office , divorced in 2007. Still, it wasn’t long after the divorce that Fischer suggested that Gunn try to makes, and that she knew the perfect person for the leading role: her TV co-star Rainn Wilson.He’s not a mythmaker but a demythologizer, one who’s now charged with reinventing the most potent comic-book myth of them, and he’s called the shoot the hardest of his career. The movie has a harsh, almost disreputable look to it, as if it’s the kind of thing you don’t want anyone to catch you watching.