Career
After a career as a stunt performer and coordinator creating action sequences for films as well as serving as second unit director on Steve Oedekerk's Kung Pow! Enter the Fist in 2002, Gunther developed and sold a slate of MTV shows, including Live Free or Die Hard: Inside the Action (2007), Ghost Rider: Inside the Action (2007), Your Movie Show (2005–2006), and Underworld: Evolution – Inside the Action (2005) before directing the theatrical feature films Beatdown (2010) starring Danny Trejo and Rudy Youngblood and Setup starring Bruce Willis, Ryan Phillippe, and 50 Cent
In 2014, he returned to second unit directing for movies, starting Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) and continuing with Sabotage (2014), The Purge: Anarchy (2014), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016), Star Trek Beyond (2016), Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), and Bumblebee (2018) as well as becoming a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by invitation in 2018.
In 2019, Gunther directed and produced the Rogue Warfare trilogy for Netflix.
Gunther was later second unit director and supervising stunt coordinator on Bad Boys For Life in 2020, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and The Forever Purge in 2021, The Lost City, Me Time, and Ambulance in 2022, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Twisters, and Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F in 2024, and Focker-in-Law, set for release in November 2026.
