{"id":193783,"date":"2021-02-15T18:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T18:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/james-gunn-alive-obituary-mix\/"},"modified":"2021-02-15T18:00:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T18:00:26","slug":"director-james-gunn-assures-fans-hes-alive-after-obituary-mix-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/02\/15\/director-james-gunn-assures-fans-hes-alive-after-obituary-mix-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Director James Gunn Assures Fans He’s Alive After Obituary Mix-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

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James Gunn is alive and well. The <\/span>Guardians of the Galaxy<\/span><\/i>\u00a0and The Suicide Squad<\/em><\/strong><\/a> director took to his official Twitter account to assure his friends, family, and fans that he is not dead after an obituary mix-up online. It seems like a piece of news posted by <\/span>Deadline<\/span><\/i> on Twitter, which was in fact an announcement about the science fiction<\/a> author James E. Gunn\u2019s passing, led to the confusion.<\/span><\/p>\n

The tweet posted by the entertainment news website had a headline beginning with: \u201cJames Gunn Dies.\u201d Many people close to the director, and even his fans, could have read it quickly and confused it\u00a0with being\u00a0him. His relatives immediately reached out to him to ensure that he was indeed well. While paying his respects to the author, who died at the age of 97, James Gunn politely suggested that perhaps <\/span>Deadline<\/span><\/i> could have worded their headline in a different way.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Director\u00a0 James Gunn, who is known to be very active on social media<\/a>, went on to respond to some of the queries from his fans on Twitter as well. He spoke of how some of his best friends first brought the headline to his attention, expressing how they were shocked for a few seconds before realizing it wasn\u2019t him. When one follower informed James Gunn\u00a0that he had purchased a book by the author with a similar name, believing it was the director\u2019s work, Gunn recalled the times he was approached by people at conventions asking him to sign one of the late James E. Gunn’s books. He would politely decline, of course.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n