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Dan Trachtenberg (b. 1981)

Alias:
Ден Трахтенберґ
دان تراختنبرغ

Birthplace:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Born:
May 11, 1981

Biography from TheMovieDB

Dan Trachtenberg (born May 11, 1981) is an American filmmaker and podcast host.  He is best known for directing the films 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) and Prey (2022), the former earning him a Directors Guild of America Award nomination for Outstanding Directing – First-Time Feature Film. For television, he directed the pilot episodes of The Boys (2019) and The Lost Symbol (2021), the latter of which he also served as an executive producer.   Trachtenberg was one of three hosts of The Totally Rad Show podcast and a former co-host of the Geekdrome podcast. He also directed episodes for the Ctrl+Alt+Chicken podcast, all hosted at Revision3. He directed the 2011 short film Portal: No Escape, an episode of Black Mirror entitled "Playtest," and various television commercials and public service announcements.  Description above from the Wikipedia article Dan Trachtenberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Film Performances

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Film Production

Director:
2003  Kickin'
2011  More Than You Can Chew
2016  10 Cloverfield Lane
2022  Prey
2025  Predator: Badlands
2025  Predator: Killer of Killers

Idea:
2003  Kickin'
2011  More Than You Can Chew
2016  10 Cloverfield Lane
2022  Prey
2025  Predator: Badlands
2025  Predator: Killer of Killers
????  MILK

Key Grip:
1998  Phantasm IV: Oblivion
2003  Kickin'
2011  More Than You Can Chew
2016  10 Cloverfield Lane
2022  Prey
2025  Predator: Badlands
2025  Predator: Killer of Killers
????  MILK

Producer:
1998  Phantasm IV: Oblivion
2003  Kickin'
2011  More Than You Can Chew
2016  10 Cloverfield Lane
2022  Prey
2025  Predator: Badlands
2025  Predator: Killer of Killers
????  MILK

Story:
1998  Phantasm IV: Oblivion
2003  Kickin'
2011  More Than You Can Chew
2016  10 Cloverfield Lane
2022  Prey
2025  Predator: Badlands
2025  Predator: Killer of Killers
????  MILK

Writer:
1998  Phantasm IV: Oblivion
2003  Kickin'
2011  More Than You Can Chew
2016  10 Cloverfield Lane
2022  Prey
2025  Predator: Badlands
2025  Predator: Killer of Killers
????  MILK

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TV Performances

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TV Production

Director:
2010  BlackBoxTV Presents
2011  Black Mirror
2019  The Boys
2021  Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol

Executive Producer:
2010  BlackBoxTV Presents
2011  Black Mirror
2019  The Boys
2021  Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol

Writer:
2010  BlackBoxTV Presents
2011  Black Mirror
2019  The Boys
2021  Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol

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