Jon Gunn

Jon Gunn is a director/writer/producer who makes movies and TV shows with Christian themes. Gunn’s feature debut as director/writer/producer was the crime-themed Mercy Streets (2000), starring Eric Roberts, David White, Lawrence Taylor, and Stacy Keach.

Gunn was the director, producer, and editor of the comic, micro-budgeted non-fiction feature, My Date with Drew (2004), co-directed by and featuring Brian Herzlinger, and won several festival audience awards, including from the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival. Jon Gunn’s second feature narrative directorial credit was for the low-budget drama, Like Dandelion Dust (2009), starring Mira Sorvino, Barry Pepper, Kate Levering, and Cole Hauser, which earned several festival audience awards and $352,000-plus at the box office.

Gunn’s third feature as director only was the Christian drama, Do You Believe? (2015), reuniting him with star Sorvino, Sean Astin, Delroy Lindo, Brian Bosworth, Cybill Shepherd, and Lee Majors, and grossing a strong $14.4 million box office on a $2.3 million budget. Jon Gunn followed this as co-director (with John W. Mann) and co-writer (with star Rick Gomez and Mann) of the comedy, The Week (2015), with Joelle Carter and Richard Speight Jr. Gunn directed another Christian-themed money-maker with The Case for Christ (2017), based on Lee Strobel’s book of the same title, with Mike Vogel, Erika Christensen, Frankie Faison, Faye Dunaway, and Robert Forster, and earning $17.6 million on a $3 million budget.

Jon Gunn shifted to the status of writer-producer (with partner Jon Erwin) under his production shingle Kingdom Story Company, with three consecutive features, starting with I Still Believe (2020), starring KJ Apa, Britt Robertson, Shania Twain, and Gary Sinise, and turning in a weak box office return for distributor Lionsgate; followed by the Kurt Warner biopic, American Underdog (2021), with Zachary Levi, Anna Paquin, and Dennis Quaid, but again not returning a profit for Lionsgate; and then the more successful ($54 million grossing) Jesus Revolution (2023), with Joel Courtney, Jonathan Roumie, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, and Kelsey Grammer, and released by Lionsgate.

Gunn then returned to the director’s chair with the Lionsgate-released drama, Ordinary Angels (2024), co-written by Meg Tilly and Kelly Fremon Craig, and co-starring Hilary Swank and Alan Ritchson, with Nancy Travis and Tamala Jones. Gunn, as writer-director, reunited with leading man Levi for the drama, The Unbreakable Boy (2025), based on a true story, and co-starring Meghann Fahy, Jacob Laval, and Patricia Heaton, and again released by Lionsgate.