The writer-director-producer, James Gunn and actress girlfriend Jennifer Holland are finally engaged to each other as annoounced by the James via Instagram post recently. He posted a snap of his longtime girlfriend now fiancee showing off her diamond engagement ring on her left ring finger while sipping from a mug.
James Gunn simply captioned the post with two emojis and his fiancee, Holland commeted with a heart emotion. She also shared a photo of them on her Instagram with a rainbow behind them and captioned the post, "Happiness [rainbow, cloud and heart emoji]."
Many actors who had worked withJames Gunn showered him with congratulatory messages under the post and some of them were The Suicide Squad star Viola Davis, Guardian actress Karen Gillan, actor Steve Agee and actress Daniela Melchior.
James Gunn Dating Life With Girlfriend Jennifer Holland
James Gunn and Jennifer Holland started dating since 2015 and as per some reports they were introduced to each other by a mutual friend, Michael Rosenbaum. Rosenbaum showed a picture of Holland to James and offered to set them up. Rosenbaum was then dating one of Holland's friends and she approached the actress with the idea when she had never heard of James.
In an interview, Jennifer had shared that she was hesitant about dating with James at the start as James was described as a producer-director and the producer title gave her some weird vibes. She also found him incredibly charming in interviews when she researched him up on online and she also shared that they really clicked on their first date as she told her whole life stories to him on their first date. She said that they spent almost seven hours and that was how their relationship began.
James Gunn had described Jennifer as the color he had never seen and shared about her wisdom, strenght, integrity and kindness. Jennifer had also referred to James as a beautiful man and hoe he had changed the lives of those around him in many ways.
However, James Gunn was previously married to Jenna Fischer on 7 October 2000. The couple soon became famous in their individual works and their busy schedules took a toll on their relationship and that led to their split. They were married for around seven years and the former couple announced their separation via a joint statement on 5 September 2007 and had their divorce in 2008. Despite their separation, the former couple remained good friends and supported each other in their career.
Net Worth Of James Gunn
James Gunn has a net worth of $50 million as an American screenwriter, director, actor, producer, musician and novelist. He was reportedly paid $7-$10 million for his script of the Guardians of the Galaxy movies that grossed over $333 million.
James Gunn is a skilled director and writer as he began making 8mm films at the age of 12 and has been writing and performing as long as he can remember. He dropped out of Sanit Louis University High College for a rock and roll career. He worked as a member of band, The Icons and along with that he worked as an orderly in Tucson, Arizona to earn money. He also wrote and drew comic strips for underground and college newspapers before his career took off.
He eventually graduated with a B.A at his university and moved to New York to receive his MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. He started writing The Toy Collector and worked for Troma Studios and wrote, Tromeo and Juliet, All I Need to Know About Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger.
He moved to Los Angeles after Canes in 1997 leaving Troma studios and started writing and acting in films like The Specials, Spy vs Spy, Scooby-Doo. He made his directorial debut with Slither in 2004 and became successful for his films like Super, Guardians of the Galaxy, Gaurdians of the Galaxy Vol.2, and Suicide Squad.
He is also the first filmmaker to direct a movie for both the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the DC Extended Universe. But he nearly blew up his career in 2018 when his old tweets resurfaced online that showed his dislikeness of Trump and those tweets were inappropriate in nature. He was fired by Marvel but he was also hired by DC to direct the upcoming Suicide Squad sequel in 2019. However, he apologized for his beahviour via twitter and expressed his gratefulness to his supporters and thanked Disney's decision. But then, he was also reinstated by Marvel to continue as a director for the upcoming third Guardians of the Galaxy film.