It definitely wasn’t a success, but fortunately Gunn would eventually get another crack at the genre, and I’m not talking about Guardians.
But we’ll get to that in a bit…
James Gunn became a household name thanks to his work on the Guardians of the Galaxy films, but the reality is that his excitement about sci-fi and superheroes was showcased in his work years before his association with Marvel.
His first go at it was writing Craig Mazin’s comedy The Specials — and while it’s certainly a film that is rough around the edges and clearly made on a tight budget, it also has a great deal of charm and basically suffers from being just a little before its time with its parody (it was released in 2000).