James Gunn

Yeah, so he's not, you know, he doesn't...

think that he knows how to do that, you know?

Right.

One of the most terrifying calls ever was, you know, I had done the screen test with David Cornswet and Rachel Brosnan, and, you know, and they were so freaking good together, and I loved them, and Peter loved them, and Chantal, our executive producer, loved them, and I sent the tape off to Dave, and I said, here's our two choices.

Yeah.

Here's what we want to do, and...

David called me up, and he goes, and he sounds really dour, and he goes, you know, I have to preface this by saying this isn't what I do.

This isn't what I know.

You know, I'm not a movie business guy.

I'm a movie creator.

I'm not a storyteller like you are.

This is just coming from a place of me as a person.

And then he stopped, and he goes, I fucking love it!

And it was...

That's so good.

Like you were an asshole.

I hated when we were going through all the guild dispute stuff and AI was the big part of it because we're just not quite there at that point yet with writing and acting.

And so there were all these important issues that we needed to talk about.

And it's like AI, the splashy thing, is making all the headlines.

All my friends online are getting upset about AI stuff.