Drew Goddard

Andrew Brion Hogan Goddard (born February 26, 1975) is an American filmmaker. He began his career writing episodes for the television shows ''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'' and served as an executive producer for ''10 Cloverfield Lane'' (2016) and ''The Cloverfield Paradox'' (2018), the next installments in the ''Cloverfield'' franchise. His latest project, ''Bad Times at the El Royale'' (2018), starred an ensemble cast consisting of Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson, Jon Hamm, Cailee Spaeny, Lewis Pullman, and Chris Hemsworth. Provided by Wikipedia