David S. Goyer

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David Samuel Goyer (born December 22, 1965) is an American screenwriter, film director and comic book writer.

[edit] Biography

Goyer was born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is Jewish^[1] and an alumnus of Huron High School and the University of Southern California, graduating from the School of Cinema-Television in 1988.^[2]

Goyer was a student of screenwriter Nelson Gidding at USC and frequently returned to Gidding's class as a guest speaker. He graduated in 1988 and sold his first screenplay for Death Warrant in 1989. With his first paycheck, he bought a new Isuzu Trooper, which was stolen the very first night he drove it home.

[edit] Work

Goyer has written several screenplays based on numerous comic book series, among them Doctor Strange, Ghost Rider, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Flash.

Goyer wrote a title based around the Justice Society of America for DC Comics titled JSA, which debuted in August 1999. For the first five issues, he collaborated with James Robinson and, until his departure following issue 51, with Geoff Johns, who would take over as solo writer.

Goyer is co-creator with Brannon Braga of FlashForward, a new science fiction TV series premiering on ABC in Fall 2009. The show is based on the novel by Robert J. Sawyer.

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Written by

• Death Warrant (1990)
• Kickboxer 2: The Road Back (1991)
• Demonic Toys (1992)
• Arcade (1993)
• Dollman vs. Demonic Toys (1993)
• The Puppet Masters (1994)
• The Crow: City of Angels (1996)
• Dark City (1998)
• Nick Fury: Agent of Shield (1998)
• Blade (1998)
• ZigZag (2002)
• Blade II (2002)
• Blade Trinity (2004)
• Puppet Master vs Demonic Toys (2004)
• Batman Begins (2005)
• Jumper (2008)
• The Dark Knight (2008)
• The Unborn (2009)
• X-Men Origins: Magneto (announced)

[edit] Television

• "Sleepwalkers" episode "Pilot"
• FreakyLinks episode Subject: Fearsum (2000)
• Threshold episode Trees Made of Glass: Part 2 (2005)
• Blade: The Series episodes Pilot, Death Goes On, Descent, Bloodlines, The Evil Within, Delivery, Sacrifice, Turn of the Screw, Angels & Demons, Hunters, Monsters, and Conclave (2006)
• FlashForward (Co-creator with Brannon Braga, premiering on ABC in Fall 2009).

[edit] Directed by

• ZigZag (2002)
• Blade Trinity (2004)
• Threshold episode Trees Made of Glass: Part 1 (2005)
• The Invisible (2007)
• The Unborn (2009)
• X-Men Origins: Magneto (announced)

[edit] Produced by

• Kickboxer 2: The Road Back (1991)
• Sleepwalkers (1997-1998)
• Mission to Mars (2000)
• Threshold (2005)
• Blade: The Series (2006)
• Ghost Rider (2007)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• David S. Goyer at the Internet Movie Database
• David Goyer Interview @ PopImage, Oct.01
• David Goyer Interview @ PopImage, Feb 2000
• The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter David Goyer