Drew Goddard

Drew Goddard
Goddard in 2012 at a "Cabin in the Woods" screening.
Born	Andrew Goddard (1975-02-26) February 26, 1975 Los Alamos, New Mexico, U.S.
Occupation	Screenwriter, film director
Notable award(s)	Writers Guild of America Award 2006 Lost

Drew Goddard (born February 26, 1975) is an American film and television screenwriter, director and producer. He made his feature film directorial debut with the 2012 dark comedy horror-thriller, The Cabin in the Woods.

Life and career

Born in Los Alamos, New Mexico, Goddard started his career as a staff writer for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, receiving a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation for the former. In 2005, he joined J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot team, where he wrote for both Alias and Lost, winning, along with the Lost writing staff, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award for Best Dramatic Series.^[1] In 2006, during its third season, Goddard became the co-executive producer of Lost.

Goddard wrote his first feature in 2008, Cloverfield, directed by Matt Reeves and produced by J.J. Abrams. Cloverfield made $168 million on a $25 million budget. Empire Magazine named Cloverfield the fifth best film of 2008, and the film then went on to win the year's Saturn Award for "Best Science Fiction Film."

Next came Goddard's directorial debut, The Cabin in the Woods, which he co-wrote with Joss Whedon. The Cabin in the Woods was featured on Metacritic's best films of 2012 list, in addition to earning a reported 92% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film would eventually go on to win the year's Saturn Award for "Best Horror or Thriller Film," as well as garnering Goddard Saturn's "Filmmaker Showcase Award."

In 2013, Goddard, in addition to Matthew Michael Carnahan and Lost showrunner Damon Lindelof, wrote the screenplay for the film World War Z starring Brad Pitt and directed by Marc Forster. The film has grossed $540 million on a $190 million budget. As a result, in June 2013, Paramount announced that it was moving ahead with a sequel.

Goddard is currently adapting Andy Weir's self-published novel "The Martian" to direct for 20th Century Fox.^[2]

In December 2013, Marvel officially announced that Goddard will be the executive producer and showrunner for a Daredevil TV series that will be produced by Marvel Television and broadcast on Netflix in 2015,^[3] while Sony Pictures also announced that Goddard will be writing and possibly directing a Sinister Six film.^[4]

Episodes written

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

• "Selfless"
• "Conversations with Dead People" with Jane Espenson; Joss Whedon and Marti Noxon uncredited
• "Never Leave Me"
• "Lies My Parents Told Me" with David Fury
• "Dirty Girls"

Angel

• "Lineage"
• "Damage" with Steven S. DeKnight
• "Why We Fight" with Steven S. DeKnight
• "Origin"
• "The Girl in Question" with Steven S. DeKnight

Alias

• "Welcome to Liberty Village" – January 26, 2005
• "Tuesday" – March 30, 2005
• "Mockingbird" – October 20, 2005
• "There's Only One Sydney Bristow" – April 26, 2006 (100th episode)
• "All the Time in the World" – May 22, 2006, with Jeff Pinkner (series finale)

Lost

• 1.16 – "Outlaws" – February 16, 2005
• 3.02 – "The Glass Ballerina" – October 11, 2006 with Jeff Pinkner
• 3.08 – "Flashes Before Your Eyes" – February 14, 2007 with Damon Lindelof
• 3.13 – "The Man from Tallahassee" – March 21, 2007 with Jeff Pinkner
• 3.16 – "One of Us" – April 11, 2007 with Carlton Cuse
• 3.20 – "The Man Behind the Curtain" – May 9, 2007 with Elizabeth Sarnoff
• 4.02 – "Confirmed Dead" – February 7, 2008 with Brian K. Vaughan
• 4.06 – "The Other Woman" – March 6, 2008 with Christina M. Kim
• 4.09 – "The Shape of Things to Come" – April 24, 2008 with Brian K. Vaughan

Filmography

Television

Comics written

• Tales of the Vampires (Dark Horse Comics, collected in trade paperback, Tales of the Vampires, 144 pages, December 2004, ISBN 1569717494, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales, 288 pages, January 2011, ISBN 1595826440):
  • "The Problem With Vampires" (with artist Paul Lee, in Tales of the Vampires #1, Dark Horse Comics, December 2003)
  • "Antique" (with artist Ben Stenbeck, in Tales of the Vampires #3, Dark Horse Comics, February 2004)
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #12–15: "Wolves at the Gate" (with pencils by Georges Jeanty and inks by Andy Owens, Dark Horse Comics, March-June 2008, tpb, Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 8, Volume 3: Wolves at the Gate, 136 pages, November 2008, ISBN 1595821651)

See also

• Mutant Enemy Productions

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Drew Goddard.

• Drew Goddard at the Internet Movie Database
• Official website
• Drew Goddard talks 'The Cabin in the Woods from CriticizeThis.ca