Drew Goddard

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Drew Goddard (2012)

Drew Goddard (born February 26, 1975 in Los Alamos , New Mexico ) is an American screenwriter , producer and director .

Life

Goddard first appeared in the film business in 2002 and 2003 as a screenwriter for several episodes of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer . From 2003 to 2004 he was the executive story editor of the spin-off series Angel - Jäger der Finsternis , for which he was also active as a writer during the same period. Both projects meant the first collaboration with Joss Whedon .

From 2005 to 2006 Goddard was a producer and writer for the series Alias ​​- Die Agentin . This marked the beginning of a long-term cooperation with JJ Abrams . In 2008 Goddard wrote the screenplay for Cloverfield , his first feature film. JJ Abrams produced the project. Another collaboration arose with the television series Lost , for which Goddard wrote some scripts and supervised in various positions for some time as a producer.

In 2012 he made his directorial debut and directed the horror film The Cabin in the Woods , for which he wrote the script with Joss Whedon. The script won the British Fantasy Award in 2013 . His next directing project was to be Der Martianer - Rettet Mark Watney , for whom he also wrote the screenplay. When he was hired by Sony to direct the Marvel film Sinister Six , he was unable to direct The Martian for lack of time; the film was then directed by Ridley Scott . Goddard himself was born in 2016 a. a. Nominated for an Oscar in the Best Adapted Screenplay category.

Goddard was involved in the script for World War Z (2013) together with Damon Lindelof and Matthew Michael Carnahan . The television series Marvel's Daredevil has been running since 2015 , in whose development he was instrumental and for which he also worked as an executive producer and screenwriter. Bad Times at the El Royale , Goddard's second directorial work after The Cabin in the Woods , was released in October 2018. The cast of the 1960s thriller includes Jeff Bridges, Chris Hemsworth and Dakota Johnson. The originally announced Russel Crowe was not part of the final cast.

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) - IMDb Cast. In: Internet Movie Database. Retrieved March 13, 2019 .
  2. Jump up ↑ Russell Crowe and Dakota Johnson in the new Cabin in the Woods film . In: moviepilot.de . January 10, 2018 ( moviepilot.de [accessed January 10, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Goddard, Drew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter, producer, and director
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Alamos , New Mexico , United States