James Gunn's Superheroes Are Flawed But Funny | 2 Bears, 1 Cave

2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer

2 Bears 1 Cave

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.8 • 23.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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SPONSORS: - Protect your family with life insurance from Ethos. Get up to $3 million in coverage in as little as 10 minutes at https://ethos.com/BEARS. Application times may vary. Rates may vary. - Sponsored by BetterHelp. Our listeners get 10% off their first month at https://betterhelp.com/bears - Upgrade to ShipStation today to get a sixty-day free trial at https://www.shipstation.com/cave. - If you’re 21+, try VIIA! For 15% off AND a free gift with your first order head to https://viia.co/BEARS and use code BEARS! #viiaparter In this episode of 2 Bears, 1 Cave, James Gunn joins Tom Segura to talk filmmaking and the state of the entertainment industry. Gunn opens up about directing Superman, the pressures behind it, and the relief of its success. He also discusses his role as co-head of DC Studios, building a decade-long DC universe, and the bold choice to reshoot five and a half episodes of Peacemaker with a new Vigilante. Tom and James bond over grounded storytelling, casting decisions, and the balance between comedy, superhero films, and CGI. They also touch on the return of comedies to theaters and how the industry continues to evolve. 2 Bears, 1 Cave Ep. 307 https://tomsegura.com/tour https://www.bertbertbert.com/tour https://store.ymhstudios.com Chapters 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:45 - Peacemaker, El Tigre, & Grounded Aesthetics 00:08:24 - Big Screen Comedy 00:22:04 - Hitting The Creative Lottery With Superman 00:32:59 - The Writing Process & Juggling Big Budgets 00:41:16 - Special FX & Special Actors 00:47:57 - Batman 00:55:53 - Star Wars 01:00:12 - Guardians Of Fun 01:04:11 - Serious Filmmaking & "Ripley" 01:08:36 - Casting Highs & Lows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	100%
0:01.2	Cheers
0:02.2	Are we have great news
0:06.4	My regular co-host isn't here
0:08.1	And so sitting in for him
0:11.2	Is a prolific filmmaker
0:13.4	A sentence you don't normally hear
0:15.2	On this show
0:16.2	But we're super stoked to have them
0:18.8	So give it up real big For james gunn everybody oh listen
0:24.4	those claps oh i'm excited i don't think i can i can't feel bertieus you should you should hear
0:28.9	their normal claps it's usually like really like yeah it's really sad that was genuine they're
0:33.3	big fans man wow that's cool everybody here's a big fan and i'm a big fan of yours. Well, thank you. As you well know, I've contacted you on Twitter saying how great you are. One of those things, I don't know. You're very kind. Just to reiterate to everybody, Peacemaker, is on HBO or Max or Max HBO, whatever fucking name they've chosen this week. It's airing Thursdays at 9. Wait, it comes out at a certain time? It comes out at 9 o'clock. Okay. You can watch it at 9 o'clock. That's like old school, like when they give you a time. It is. It is. I mean, obviously you can still watch it at 915 or 9.20. But at 9 is when it drops. It drops at 9.
1:10.9	It's in its second season. I got to say, dude, I was, first of all, there's so many goddamn shows now. Like, you know, when we were growing up, they're like, there's four shows. Yeah. Like, you just could just kind of go through shows. Yeah. You knew every movie, because there was, like, a campaign for a movie. and like, you know, to catch up on things, it's kind of mind-blowing.
1:31.4	It is, You knew every movie because there was like a campaign for a movie.
1:30.9	And like, you know, to catch up on things, it's kind of mind blowing.
1:33.6	It is a really fucking fun watch.
1:35.8	Like, Peacemaker is really fun.
1:47.3	I was actually, I got to say, I was kind of blown away at not just like what a fun ride it is, but like watching Sina. he's so good he's so good yeah no in this season i mean so we did the first you know you know going way back the reason
1:53.7	i wanted to do peacemaker was because of my relationship with john working with him on the
1:58.7	suicide squad yeah and i saw something in him that was so, I knew he was a good actor.
2:04.6	And we did the first season of Peacemaker. And we worked on that a lot. And since then,
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