Drew Goddard

Andrew Brion Hogan Goddard (born February 26, 1975) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer most closely associated with the horror genre. He began his career writing episodes for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Alias, and Lost. After moving into screenwriting in film, he wrote Cloverfield (2008), World War Z (2013), and The Martian (2015), the latter earning him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. In 2011, he made his directorial debut with The Cabin in the Woods. In 2015, Goddard created the Netflix series Daredevil. Soon after, he directed several episodes of The Good Place. He served as an executive producer for 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) and The Cloverfield Paradox (2018), the next instalment in the Cloverfield franchise. It was announced in April 2024 that he would write and direct a new film in The Matrix franchise. Description above from the Wikipedia article Drew Goddard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Project Hail Mary

A lone astronaut wakes up on a spaceship with no memory of his mission. As he pieces together his past, he discovers he's humanity's last hope against an extinction-level threat, leading to an unexpected yet crucial alliance.

Release Date: 2026-03-20

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

High Potential

Morgan is a single mom with an exceptional mind, whose unconventional knack for solving crimes leads to an unusual and unstoppable partnership with a by-the-book seasoned detective.

Release Date: 2024-09-17

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 13

Vote Count: 141

Bad Times at the El Royale

Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.

Release Date: 2018-10-04

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 3600

Marvel's The Defenders

Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist join forces to take on common enemies as a sinister conspiracy threatens New York City.

Release Date: 2017-08-18

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 8

Vote Count: 1464

Baby Driver

After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.

Release Date: 2017-06-28

Department: Crew

Job: Thanks

Vote Count: 15874

The Good Place

Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who, through an extraordinary string of events, enters the afterlife where she comes to realize that she hasn't been a very good person. With the help of her wise afterlife mentor, she's determined to shed her old way of living and discover the awesome (or at least the pretty good) person within.

Release Date: 2016-09-19

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 1664

Grimsby

Wrongfully accused and on the run, a top MI6 assassin joins forces with his long-lost, football hooligan brother to save the world from a sinister plot.

Release Date: 2016-02-24

Department: Crew

Job: Thanks

Vote Count: 2309

The Martian

During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.

Release Date: 2015-09-30

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 19971

Marvel's Daredevil

Lawyer-by-day Matt Murdock uses his heightened senses from being blinded as a young boy to fight crime at night on the streets of Hell’s Kitchen as Daredevil.

Release Date: 2015-04-10

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 13

Vote Count: 4604

World War Z

Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.

Release Date: 2013-06-19

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 15552

The Cabin in the Woods

A group of teens journey to a remote cabin in the woods where their fate is unknowingly controlled by technicians as part of a worldwide conspiracy where all horror movie clichés are revealed to be part of an elaborate sacrifice ritual.

Release Date: 2012-04-12

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 7942

Cloverfield

Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.

Release Date: 2008-01-15

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 7178

Nevermoor

Based on the books of the same name. We follow Morrigan Crow, a girl born on the unluckiest day and blamed for all local misfortune, when she is invited to compete for a place in the most prestigious school in Nevermoor.

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Untitled Cloverfield Sequel

Plot unknown.

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Matrix 5

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog

Aspiring super-villain Dr. Horrible wants to join the Evil League of Evil and win the girl of his dreams, but his nemesis, Captain Hammer, stops him at every turn.

Release Date: 2008-07-15

Character: Fake Thomas Jefferson

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 521

Lost

Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.

Release Date: 2004-09-22

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 9

Vote Count: 4423

Alias

Sydney Bristow, an agent who has been tricked to believe she is working for the U.S. government, is actually working for a criminal organization named the Alliance of Twelve. Upon learning this, Sydney becomes a double agent for the real CIA.

Release Date: 2001-09-30

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 5

Vote Count: 639

Angel

The vampire Angel, cursed with a soul, moves to Los Angeles and aids people with supernatural-related problems while questing for his own redemption. A spin-off from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Release Date: 1999-10-05

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 5

Vote Count: 921

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number. She is the Slayer.

Release Date: 1997-03-10

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 5

Vote Count: 1775

Phony

After waking up from a freak car accident, Sonny discovers that his mother has been replaced by an impostor.

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 1