Drew Goddard

Drew Goddard
File:Drew Goddard, "The Cabin in the Woods" World Premiere (cropped).jpg Goddard in 2012
Born	Andrew Brion Hogan Goddard (1975-02-26) February 26, 1975 Houston, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Screenwriter, film director, producer
Notable awards	Hugo Award 2003 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Writers Guild of America Award 2006 Lost National Board of Review Award 2015 The Martian

Andrew Brion Hogan Goddard (born February 26, 1975) is an American film and television screenwriter, director, and producer. He began his career as a writer on acclaimed television series, such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Alias, and Lost. He also created the Netflix superhero series Daredevil.

Goddard received further recognition for writing the successful monster horror film Cloverfield (2008) and the action horror film World War Z (2013). Goddard then wrote the screenplay for the acclaimed science fiction film The Martian (2015), for which he won the National Board of Review Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Goddard co-wrote and made his directorial feature film debut with the horror-comedy film The Cabin in the Woods (2012). He also directed, wrote and produced the mystery thriller film Bad Times at the El Royale (2018).

Early life

Goddard was born in Houston, Texas and was raised in Los Alamos, New Mexico, the son of Colleen Mary (Hogan), a teacher, and Dr. Laurence Woodbury Goddard.

Career

2000s

Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel

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.

Alias and Lost

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. In 2006, during its third season, Goddard became the co-executive producer of Lost.

Cloverfield

By February 2007, Goddard wrote his first feature in, Cloverfield, directed by Matt Reeves and produced by J. J. Abrams. Cloverfield made $168 million on a $25 million budget. Empire named it the fifth best film of 2008, and the film then went on to win the year's Saturn Award for "Best Science Fiction Film".

2010s

The Cabin in the Woods

Goddard's directorial debut, The Cabin in the Woods, was co-written with Joss Whedon. The Cabin in the Woods was featured on Metacritic's best films of 2012 list, in addition to earning a 92% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film would 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".

World War Z

In 2013, Goddard—in addition to J. Michael Straczynski, 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 grossed $540 million on a $190 million budget. As a result, in June 2013, Paramount announced that it was moving ahead with a sequel.

Daredevil and The Defenders

In December 2013, Marvel officially announced that Goddard would be the executive producer and showrunner for the Daredevil television series produced by Marvel Television and broadcast on Netflix in 2015. Sony Pictures also announced that Goddard would write and direct a film based on the Sinister Six, though the project was eventually cancelled. In May 2014, Goddard withdrew from showrunning duties on the Daredevil TV series. In February 2015, after the deal between Marvel and Sony to share the rights to Spider-Man was announced, it was reported that Goddard was in talks with Sony to helm the new Spider-Man reboot film, although it was later announced that Jon Watts would be the director. Goddard also executive produced and co-wrote an episode of the miniseries The Defenders. The series featured a team-up of the Marvel Television superheroes, including Daredevil. It was released on Netflix in August 2017.

The Martian

Goddard wrote the film adaptation of Andy Weir's debut novel The Martian, initially planning to direct it himself for 20th Century Fox. He later left the project when offered a chance to direct Sinister Six, a now-canceled comic book adaptation based on a team of supervillains. The Martian was instead directed by Ridley Scott, and received wide critical acclaim. Goddard himself received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Bad Times at the El Royale

Goddard wrote, directed and produced the crime mystery thriller film Bad Times at the El Royale, which was released on October 12, 2018, to positive reviews. The film features an ensemble cast, which includes Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson, Jon Hamm, and Chris Hemsworth.

X-Force

In 2017, it was announced that Goddard would direct and write the upcoming superhero film X-Force. The film will feature multiple superheroes, including Deadpool and Cable, whom Goddard previously wrote for as a script consultant on Deadpool 2 (2018).

Episodes written

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

• 7.05 – "Selfless" – October 22, 2002
• 7.07 – "Conversations with Dead People" – November 12, 2002 (with Jane Espenson; Joss Whedon and Marti Noxon uncredited)
• 7.09 – "Never Leave Me" – November 26, 2002
• 7.17 – "Lies My Parents Told Me" – March 25, 2003 (with David Fury)
• 7.18 – "Dirty Girls" – April 15, 2003

Angel

• 5.07 – "Lineage" – November 12, 2003
• 5.11 – "Damage" – January 28, 2004 (with Steven S. DeKnight)
• 5.13 – "Why We Fight" – February 18, 2004 (with DeKnight)
• 5.18 – "Origin" – April 21, 2004
• 5.20 – "The Girl in Question" – May 5, 2004 (with DeKnight)

Alias

• 4.05 – "Welcome to Liberty Village" – January 26, 2005
• 4.13 – "Tuesday" – March 30, 2005 (with Breen Frazier)
• 5.04 – "Mockingbird" – October 20, 2005
• 5.12 – "There's Only One Sydney Bristow" – April 26, 2006 (100th episode)
• 5.17 – "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 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 Vaughan)

Marvel's Daredevil

• 1.01 – "Into the Ring" – April 10, 2015
• 1.02 – "Cut Man" – April 10, 2015

Marvel's The Defenders

• 1.06 – "Ashes, Ashes" – August 18, 2017 (with Marco Ramirez)

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Credited as			Notes
		Writer	Director	Executive producer
2008	Cloverfield	Yes	No	No
2012	The Cabin in the Woods	Yes	Yes	No	Co-written with Joss Whedon
2013	World War Z	Yes	No	No	Co-screenwriter with Damon Lindelof and Matthew Michael Carnahan
2015	The Martian	Yes	No	Yes
2016	10 Cloverfield Lane	No	No	Yes
2018	The Cloverfield Paradox	No	No	Yes
	Deadpool 2	Consultant	No	No	Script consultant with screenplay by Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick & Ryan Reynolds
	Bad Times at the El Royale	Yes	Yes	Yes
TBA	X-Force	Yes	Yes	No
TBA	Nevermoor	Yes	No	Yes	Based on the novel by Jessica Townsend
TBA	Wraiths of The Broken Land	Yes	No	No	Based on the novel by S. Craig Zahler

Television

Year	Title	Credited as				Notes
		Writer	Director	Producer	Executive producer
2002-2003	Buffy the Vampire Slayer	Yes				Writer (5 episodes)
2003-2004	Angel	Yes				Writer (5 episodes), executive story editor
2005-2006	Alias	Yes		Yes		Writer (5 episodes), co-producer, producer
2005-2008	Lost	Yes		Yes		Writer (9 episodes), supervising producer, co-executive producer
2015–present	Daredevil	Yes			Yes	Creator; writer (2 episodes)
2016–present	The Good Place		Yes		Yes	Director (2 episodes)
2017	The Defenders	Yes			Yes	Writer (1 episode)

Bibliography

• 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

External links

• Drew Goddard at the Internet Movie Database
• Drew Goddard talks 'The Cabin in the Woods from CriticizeThis.ca
• Scripts & Scribes Podcast Interview with Drew Goddard