ANDREW GUNN (Producer) recently produced Walt Disney Pictures’ “The Country Bears,” and is currently in post-production on the feature “The Haunted Mansion” starring Eddie Murphy and directed by Rob Minkoff.
His slate of upcoming productions also includes a remake of Walt Disney Pictures’ “Escape To Witch Mountain,” which Gunn envisions as an “X-Files”-type movie for teenagers to be directed by David Nutter; an “Untitled Kung Fu Adventure Project” that will be shot in China in the fall of 2003 and directed by Master Yuen Wo Ping, the choreographer of all three of “The Matrix“ movies, as well as “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon;” and “Sky High,” about a high school for kids of superheroes, to be directed by Mike Mitchell (“Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo,” “Surviving Christmas”) and scheduled to go into production in November.
Through his Disney-based GUNNfilms, which was started in July of 2000, he has been charged with creating ideas and developing material with universal charm—not just for kids, not just for adults—for the Walt Disney Pictures and Touchstone Pictures labels. Gunn is also involved in the Disney/ABC Writing Fellowship Program, where he mentors young writers just beginning in the film business.
He is currently shepherding several other projects he hopes will develop into broadappeal event pictures. These include: New Orleans-set “Sugar Rum Cherry” with director Adam Shankman and a football movie called “Defense” with Ice Cube and Matt Alvarez.
Before starting his own company, Gunn spent four years in charge of development and production for John Hughes and Ricardo Mestros at their Disney-based Great Oaks Entertainment. During this time he contributed to such films as “101 Dalmatians,” “Flubber,” “Home Alone 3” and “Reach the Rock.” He was also the co-producer of Hollywood Pictures’ “Eddie,” starring Whoopi Goldberg.
Prior to that, Gunn rose through the ranks at David Permut’s Permut Presentations over a two-year period. He joined the company as a story editor and eventually became a production vice president responsible for running all feature film and television development and production. Gunn oversaw projects such as “Face/Off,” starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage.
Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Gunn made the move to Los Angeles to attend The Annenberg School for Communication at The University of Southern California, where he graduated at the top of his class with a Master of Arts degree in 1995.
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