E986 – Going Deeper with James Gunn
The Viall Files
Nick Viall
4 • 24.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Welcome back to The Viall Files: Going Deeper edition.
Superman. Guardians of the Galaxy. The live action Scooby Doo films. These are just some of the things our incredible guest James Gunn has created, and we’re incredibly excited and honored to welcome him to the show! James sits down for a chat to get into his childhood, writing process, music, the new season of Peacemaker, and more! (BONUS: he even loves reality tv!!) You will DEFINITELY not want to miss this one.
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| 1:34.9 | on to Monday.com. James, welcome to the show. |
| 1:48.9 | Oh, man, it's good to be here. |
| 1:50.1 | This is really exciting for me. |
| 1:51.8 | I'm glad you're here. |
| 1:53.2 | I'm very excited about talking about Peacemaker, but just like right off to get, like, anecdotally, you know, thinking about having you come in. It's a cool moment for me. |
| 2:02.3 | I've known you for a long time. I know. We've known you. Well, you met me as a fan of yours. |
| 2:07.4 | Because I was, uh, what I was, I liked you on the, on the bachelor. And then when you had your |
| 2:13.3 | season of the bachelor, I did a little video. Yeah. For the show saying, we're team, me and Jen did a video |
| 2:20.8 | where I said, you know, we're team Nick, go Nick, right? It was something like that. Yeah, it was, |
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